Education:
2008-2012 PhD at Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands dissertation title: “Regimes of secularity: Citizenship, Religion and Muslimness in Rotterdam, Leicester and Marseille” (defense September 2013)
2008 MSc (Research Master in Social Sciences programme, ISHSS University of Amsterdam) diploma paper “Jeans meets Salwar Kameez: inquiries into the Muslim fashionscape”
2005 MA in cultural anthropology, ELTE university Budapest (Hungary) diploma paper “Sacred space in Tibetan culture – pilgrimage and mandala theory”
2005 MA in Romanian culture and language, ELTE university Budapest (Hungary) diploma paper “Characteristics of Romanian fantastic literature, a comparative study”
2003 BA in Buddhist Studies, ELTE university Budapest (Hungary), diploma paper “Syncretism in contemporary Asian Buddhist movements”
Employment:
2016 – present Lecturer religion and society, Department of History, European Studies and Religious Studies, University of Amsterdam
2013-2015 Associated Research Fellow, Department of Sociology and Public Administration, Erasmus University Rotterdam
2012-2013 Erasmus University Rotterdam, Post-Doc – European Integration Funds financed comparative research on family migrants and their integration in the Netherlands, Germany, Spain and the UK
2008-2012 PhD researcher (AIO), Erasmus University Rotterdam
2004 – 2006 freelance translator
2003 Library of Tibetan Works and Archives Dharamsala, Publication Section – editor English language documents and transliteration of Tibetan documents
2002 – 2003 Tibet Support Association Sambhala Tibet Centre (Budapest, Hungary) – editorial director english/hungarian
2001, 2002, 2003 three months/year Gyudmed Tantric College and Monastery Dharamsala Branch (Dharamsala, India) English teacher in residence
2001 Highlander School Kaza (Spiti Valley, India) English language, geography and drawing teacher
2001 Tibetan Children Village (Dharamsala, India) full-time English language teacher
2000 -2002 Budapest , Agra Travel Agency – cultural advisor and tourist guide in India and Nepal
1998-2000 Budapest, Poseidon Underwater Shooting Team cultural advisor
Carolina Ivanescu 