Stefan Dorondel has a Ph.D in History and Ethnology from the University of Bucharest and a Ph.D in Rural Studies from Humboldt University Berlin. He is an anthropologist affiliated with the Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology of the Romanian Academy of Sciences and with the Institute for Southeast European Studies Bucharest.
He works on deforestation, climate change and the transformation of the wetlands and floodplains in modern and contemporary Southeast Europe. Stefan had various postdoctoral research positions at Yale University, Cambridge University, Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle, University of Jena and the New Europe College Bucharest5. He is the author of Disrupted Landscapes. State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania (Berghahn, 2016) and co-authored with T. Sikor, J. Stahl and P.T Xuan When Things Become Property. Land Reform, Authority and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia (Berghahn, 2017).
Stefan’s work has been published in journals such as Development and Change, Citizenship Studies, Social Analysis, Environment and History, Canadian Journal of Development Studies and Ethnologia Balkanica, and as book chapters with Routledge. His co-authored edited volume (with Stelu Serban) Planners, Experts, Bureaucrats: The Transformation of Economy and Nature in European Peripheries is under contract with the University of Pittsburgh Press. He is currently working on a book tentatively titled Global Nature, Multispecies Approaches and the Ecological Restoration of the Danube. The book analyses the movement of ideas about nature, technologies, solutions, and nature experts at global level and highlights the way in which these complex processes influenced ecological restoration along the Lower Danube.