Parallel Lives

Calin Goina is Associate Professor in the Sociology and Social Work department of Babes-Bolayi University, Romania. He holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Timisoara, Romania, an MA in Political Science from the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. His work combines ethnographic work with an interest in historical sociology with publications on the politics of memory and commemoration (Goina 2015, 2018), on social history during the 'short' XXth century (Goina 2009; Goina 2009b), as well as on the performative dimensions of 2011 Romania's protest movements, as a participant-cum-researcher (Goina 2012).