CRISTINA AMARIEI (married GAVRILUŢĂ) ( b.1971), is a lector doctor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Faculty of Philosophy, Sociology and Social Work Department Iassy, Romania. Teaches courses on Romanian and universal ethnology, general sociology, sociology of deviant behaviors and social control.

She is the program secretary of the Interdisciplinary Research of Religions and Ideologies (SCIRI), Iassy, Univ. „Al. I. Cuza”, redactor at the Sociological Notebooks journal, member of the Romanian National Association of Sociology, SACRII member, and vice-president of the Antropos Association. Has specialization studies in France (Febr.- May 1997, fellowship at Universite des Sciences et Technologie de Lille, Nov.2003 – May 2004, doctoral fellowship at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris). Publishes studies and articles in Romania and abroad and the book Socioanthropology of the religious phenomena (Axis, Iaşi, 2003), Sociology of deviance and of social control (LD course, Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Iassy, 2005)

Participates in various research projects: (1995– sociological research regarding social and political aspects, Tulcea, Romania, 1997– ethnological research called Social Representations of Time Ieud, Maramureş, Romania, 2002 - sociological research named Socio-professional Integration of ex-convicts (within the project with the same name coordinated by the N.G.O Social Alternatives), 2004 - sociological research named Work Exploitation of Children and Teenagers (within the project with the same name coordinated by the N.G.O Social Alternatives). In 2005 – works within the Small Democracy Grants program, is a member of the organization team of the Young people and politics’ meetings, and periodically makes various media appearances.

Foreign languages spoken: French

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