Staff Profile

Ana-Maria is a social anthropologist interested in practices of care, ethnicity and migration. She is currently working on the project entitled Dementia care in South Asian Communities: An ethnographic and interview study led by Dr Kate Gibson. The project uses ethnography to investigate the intersections of care for South Asian people in Newcastle living with dementia and their social networks.

Before joining Newcastle University, Ana-Maria studied for her PhD in the Department of Anthropology at Durham University. Her PhD is an ethnography of Romanians in North-West London, exploring their moral and political experiences and practices of identity formation. Prior to her PhD, Ana-Maria completed a Masters in Research Methods (Anthropology) and a BA in Anthropology and Sociology at Durham University.

Ana-Maria is passionate about teaching. She has experience in teaching introductory social anthropology and supporting students during hands-on ethnographic field courses.

• Articles

  • Cîrstea A-M, Johnson L, Phiri C. Towards a praxis of care in post-pandemic fieldwork: Comparing ethnographic encounters during Covid-19. SSM - Qualitative Research in Health 2024, 5, 100387.
  • Cîrstea A-M, Pescinski J. ‘Intimacy as method’: Ethnographic reflections on equitable knowledge production in migration research. Migration Studies 2024, 12(3), mnae020.