Monica Vasile is currently project director at Institute of Sociology, Romanian Academy, and visiting fellow at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems - IRI THESys - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Between January-June 2017 she is a research fellow at Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society. Her research interests in the area of environmental & economic anthropology include: forest management and forest use; property relations, commons and local governance institutions; timber trade, forest-related economies and illegal practices; socialist and capitalist transformations; godparenthood and ritual practices.

Current project:  

The Atlas of Romanian Commons 

Associative Environmentality