Cristina A. Pop, PhD
Assistant Professor
College of Arts and Sciences
Academic Appointments
Department
- Cultural and Social Studies
Position
- Assistant Professor
Secondary Appointment
- Medical Humanities
Teaching Activity
- ANT 113: Introduction to Anthropology: Social and Cultural Determinants of Health
- ANT 352: Magic, Witchcraft and Medicine
- ANT 363: Medical Anthropology
- ANT 418: Healthcare, Society and Culture
Biography
PUBLICATIONS_______________________________________________________________________________
Books
n.d. The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation and Health Care in Romania Under contract with Rutgers University Press for the series “Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice”
2002 The Anthropology of Magic Incantation. Cluj: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă (published in Romanian).
Nominated for Best first book (non-fiction) by Romanian Writers Association Cluj, 2002.
Peer-reviewed articles
n.d. Intimate Compromise: Reproduction, Piety and Medicine among American Orthodox Christian. Under review, American Ethnologist.
2019 The winners of Socialism: fighting infertility in pronatalist Romania. Medical Anthropology, 38 (1): 100-111.
2019 Lived religion as reproductive decision-making resource among Romanian women who use abortion as contraception. Journal of Religion and Health, 58 (1):53-63.
2016 Locating purity within corruption rumors: narratives of HPV vaccination refusal in a
peri-urban community of Southern Romania. Medical Anthropology Quarterly,
30(4):563-581.
2015 Cervical cancer narratives: Invoking ‘God’s will’ to re-appropriate reproductive rights in present-day Romania. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(1):48-62.
2003 Body and healing in ritual incantations. Caiete de Antropologie Istorică [Historical Anthropology Books], II, 2(4):129-145 (published in Romanian).
Chapters in edited volumes
2021 Unprecedented times? Romanian Roma and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, forthcoming in Manderson, Burke and Wahlberg (eds.) Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19, University College London Press.
2013 Pregnant in Romania: structural violence or personal responsibility? in Antologia Criticatac 2012. Cluj. Tact: 89-92 (published in Romanian).
2002 On Blaga’s reading of an incantation in Meridian Blaga II. Cluj: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă. 222-230 (published in Romanian).
Editor-reviewed articles (selection, published in Romanian)
2005 Aspects concerning the poetics of mythical-magical texts. Constantin Brăiloiu Colloquia Annual Issue 2003, Bucharest: 159-180.
2004 Recurrent textual patterns in ‘evil eye’ incantations. Anuarul Institutului de Etnografie şi Folclor [Romanian Academy Review of Folklore Archives] Academia Română. Institutul de Etnografie şi Folclor.14-15: 149-164.
1997 Deus otiosus. Anuarul Arhivei de Folclor [Romanian Academy Review of Folklore Archives]. Cluj, XV-XVII: 587-593.
Book reviews
2020 Fistula Politics: Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger, by Heller. Anthropos 115 (2): 590-591.
2020 Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, by Berta. Journal of Anthropological Research 76(4): 534-535.
2016 On Becoming a Teen Mom. Life before Pregnancy, by Erdmans and Black and System Kids. Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation, by Silver. Gender & Society 30(5): 858-862.
Other publications (online)
2016 Musings on the materiality of health care, at http://somatosphere.net/2016/09/musings-on-the-materiality-of-health-care.html
2012 Altfel de spații, altfel de nașteri [Of other spaces, of other births], at http://www.criticatac.ro/16825/altfel-de-spaii-altfel-de-nateri/
2012 Gravidă în România: violenţă structurală sau responsabilitate personală? [Pregnant in Romania: structural violence or personal responsibility?], at http://www.criticatac.ro/15538/gravid-romania-violen-structural-sau-responsabilitate-personal/
2011 Cetățeanul-pacient [The citizen-patient], at http://www.criticatac.ro/12059/cet%c7%8eteanul-pacient/
Unpublished manuscripts
Cadaveric organ donation in Romania: A systematic review of social science research and mass media accounts (co-authored with Elizabeth Corey* and Jonah Barta*).
*undergraduate students co-authors
Suboptimal MMR vaccination and its systemic contingencies: A critical review of Romania’s measles epidemic of 2016-2018.
Books
n.d. The Cancer Within: Reproduction, Cultural Transformation and Health Care in Romania Under contract with Rutgers University Press for the series “Medical Anthropology: Health, Inequality, and Social Justice”
2002 The Anthropology of Magic Incantation. Cluj: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă (published in Romanian).
Nominated for Best first book (non-fiction) by Romanian Writers Association Cluj, 2002.
Peer-reviewed articles
n.d. Intimate Compromise: Reproduction, Piety and Medicine among American Orthodox Christian. Under review, American Ethnologist.
2019 The winners of Socialism: fighting infertility in pronatalist Romania. Medical Anthropology, 38 (1): 100-111.
2019 Lived religion as reproductive decision-making resource among Romanian women who use abortion as contraception. Journal of Religion and Health, 58 (1):53-63.
2016 Locating purity within corruption rumors: narratives of HPV vaccination refusal in a
peri-urban community of Southern Romania. Medical Anthropology Quarterly,
30(4):563-581.
2015 Cervical cancer narratives: Invoking ‘God’s will’ to re-appropriate reproductive rights in present-day Romania. Culture, Health and Sexuality, 17(1):48-62.
2003 Body and healing in ritual incantations. Caiete de Antropologie Istorică [Historical Anthropology Books], II, 2(4):129-145 (published in Romanian).
Chapters in edited volumes
2021 Unprecedented times? Romanian Roma and discrimination during the COVID-19 pandemic, forthcoming in Manderson, Burke and Wahlberg (eds.) Viral Loads: Anthropologies of Urgency in the Time of COVID-19, University College London Press.
2013 Pregnant in Romania: structural violence or personal responsibility? in Antologia Criticatac 2012. Cluj. Tact: 89-92 (published in Romanian).
2002 On Blaga’s reading of an incantation in Meridian Blaga II. Cluj: Casa Cărţii de Ştiinţă. 222-230 (published in Romanian).
Editor-reviewed articles (selection, published in Romanian)
2005 Aspects concerning the poetics of mythical-magical texts. Constantin Brăiloiu Colloquia Annual Issue 2003, Bucharest: 159-180.
2004 Recurrent textual patterns in ‘evil eye’ incantations. Anuarul Institutului de Etnografie şi Folclor [Romanian Academy Review of Folklore Archives] Academia Română. Institutul de Etnografie şi Folclor.14-15: 149-164.
1997 Deus otiosus. Anuarul Arhivei de Folclor [Romanian Academy Review of Folklore Archives]. Cluj, XV-XVII: 587-593.
Book reviews
2020 Fistula Politics: Birthing Injuries and the Quest for Continence in Niger, by Heller. Anthropos 115 (2): 590-591.
2020 Materializing Difference: Consumer Culture, Politics, and Ethnicity among Romanian Roma, by Berta. Journal of Anthropological Research 76(4): 534-535.
2016 On Becoming a Teen Mom. Life before Pregnancy, by Erdmans and Black and System Kids. Adolescent Mothers and the Politics of Regulation, by Silver. Gender & Society 30(5): 858-862.
Other publications (online)
2016 Musings on the materiality of health care, at http://somatosphere.net/2016/09/musings-on-the-materiality-of-health-care.html
2012 Altfel de spații, altfel de nașteri [Of other spaces, of other births], at http://www.criticatac.ro/16825/altfel-de-spaii-altfel-de-nateri/
2012 Gravidă în România: violenţă structurală sau responsabilitate personală? [Pregnant in Romania: structural violence or personal responsibility?], at http://www.criticatac.ro/15538/gravid-romania-violen-structural-sau-responsabilitate-personal/
2011 Cetățeanul-pacient [The citizen-patient], at http://www.criticatac.ro/12059/cet%c7%8eteanul-pacient/
Unpublished manuscripts
Cadaveric organ donation in Romania: A systematic review of social science research and mass media accounts (co-authored with Elizabeth Corey* and Jonah Barta*).
*undergraduate students co-authors
Suboptimal MMR vaccination and its systemic contingencies: A critical review of Romania’s measles epidemic of 2016-2018.
Research and Scholarship
Research and Scholarship Interests
- Medical anthropology • Gender and sexuality • Women’s health and wellbeing • Reproductive governance • Biotechnologies of reproduction and reproductive health care • Ethnographies of cervical cancer primary and secondary prevention • Vaccination anxieties • Ethnomedicine • Discourse analysis • Semantics • Ethnographies of cadaveric organ donation • Central and Eastern Europe • post-Socialism • Romania