Nursing and Human Sciences

Biographical Details:

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Universite de Montreal, 2002 Maitrise in Sociology and Anthropology, Paris V-Rene Descartes, 1995

Research Interests:

Transnational migration, post-socialism, decollectivisation, market, work, health care reform, informal economies, economic and political anthropology and sociology, Romania and Ireland. Member of 3U Research Circle on Critical Global Studies (http://anthropology.nuim.ie/research) and Joint Institute of Global Health (http://www.jigh.ie/), and DCU Eurasia Studies Group, and Migration and Interculturalism Initiative.

Selected Peer Reviewed Journals

• Sabina Stan. 2012. Neither Commodities nor Gifts: Post-Socialist Informal Exchanges in the Romanian Healthcare System. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18, 1
• Mary Clynes, Susan Hourican, Nora Kilcullen, Stephanie Lawrence, Siobhan MacDermott, Colleen O'Neill, Sara Raftery, Sabina Stan. 2010. Tackling Healthcare Associated Infections: An Exploratory Study of Cleaners' Perceptions of Their Role. Journal of Infection Prevention, 11, 6, pp6-10.
• Sabina Stan. 2009. The Discourse on 'The Crisis of the Health Care System' and the New Governance Model of Health Care in Quebec. Journal of Contemporary Issues, 2, 1
• Sabina Stan and Valentin-Veron Toma. 2009. High-Tech Romania? Managerialism, the Market and Informal Relations in the Informatisation of the Romanian Health Care System. Joint Journal Edition of Anthropology in Action and the Irish Journal of Anthropology on "Anthropology, Design and Technology in Ireland", Guest Eds: Adam Drazin and Pauline Garvey, 16, 1, pp56-71.
• Sabina Stan. 2008. Faire marcher le marché: l'anthropologie à l'épreuve de l'économie post-socialiste. Anthropologie et societes, special number on Mondes socialistes et (post)socialistes, 32, 1-2
• Sabina Stan. 2007. Transparency: Seeing, Counting and Experiencing the System. Anthropologica, 49, 2, pp257-273.
• Sabina Stan. 2005. De la nostalgie à l'abjection: la mémoire du socialisme à l'épreuve de la transformation post-socialiste. Ethnologies, 27, 2, pp79-105.
• Sabina Stan. 2004. Porcul social. Societatea reala, 1, 1, pp23-26.
• Sabina Stan. 2003. Régimes de valeur et quête de l'origine: marché et monde des objets dans la Roumanie post-communiste. Material culture history/Revue d'histoire de la culture matérielle, 23, pp39-51.
• Sabina Stan. 2001. 'Faire des gens'. Classifications étatiques, catégories locales et gestion des identités dans la collectivisation des campagnes roumaines. Cahiers de sociologie économique et culturelle, 36, pp91-121.
• Sabina Stan. 2000. What's in a Pig? 'State', 'Market' and Process in Private Pig Production and Consumption in Romania. Dialectical Anthropology, 25, 2, pp151-160.
• Sabina Stan. 1998. Plus ça change, plus c'est pareil? L'insertion de l'entrepreneur agricole dans le cadre local. Une étude de cas de la Roumanie. Annuaire de la Société d'Anthropologie Culturelle de la Roumanie, , pp117-127.

Selected Books

• Donnacha O¿Beachain, Vera Sheridan and Sabina Stan (eds.). Life in post-communist Europe after EU membership, Routlegde, 2012.
• Sabina Stan. L'agriculture roumaine en mutation. La construction sociale du marché, CNRS Editions, 2005.

Selected Chapters

• O¿Beachain, D., Sheridan, V. and S. Stan. 2012. Conclusion.
• O¿Beachain, D., Sheridan, V. and S. Stan. 2012. Introduction.
• Sabina Stan. 2012. ¿Piata Universitatii: Cealalta poveste¿ (Piata Universitatii: The Other Story), in. Iarna vrajbei noastre: Protestele din Romania, ianuarie-februarie 2012 (The Winter of our Discontent: The Romanian Protests of January-February 2012)
• Sabina Stan. 2012. Piata Universitatii: Cealalta poveste (Piata Universitatii: The Other Story). Iarna vrajbei noastre: Protestele din Romania, ianuarie-februarie 2012 (The winter of our discontent: Romanian Protests of January-February 2012)
• Sabina Stan and F. Peter Wagner. 2012. The Transformation of Society and EU Membership: From Growth to Crisis - And Beyond?. Peter Wagner (ed.) Romania in the European Union: Challenges, Pathways and Prospects, forthcoming
• Sabina Stan. 2010. Sabina Stan. The incredible adventure of democracy after communism (1989-2009)

Reviews

• Sabina Stan. 2007. Haller, Dieter and Cris Shore, Corruption. Anthropological Perspectives (London: Pluto Press: 2005). Irish Journal of Sociology, pp141-142.
• Sabina Stan. 2001. Karl Ferdinand Werner, Naissance de la noblesse (Paris: Fayard: 1998). European Legacy, 6, pp693-694.
• Sabina Stan. 2000. Robert S. Duplessis Transitions to Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1997). European Legacy, 5, pp757-759.
• Sabina Stan. 1999. Susan Bordo, Twilight Zones: The Hidden Life of Cultural Images from Plato to O.J. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1997). European Legacy, 4, pp482-483.

Selected Non-peer Reviewed Journals

• Sabina Stan. 2012. Piata Universitatii. Cealalta poveste. CriticAtac, 27 January,
• Sabina Stan. 2010. Shriking Worlds, Disconnescted Lives. The Post-communist Saga of Romanian Grains. Martor. The National Museum of Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, 15, pp67-71.
• Sabina Stan. 2009. Semn de intrebare: Sabina Stan. Sfera Politicii, 137, available : http://www.sferapoliticii.ro/sfera/137/art08-semn1.html.,

• Sabina Stan, Anthropology¿s ground zero: What is and to what end we study anthropology?, Bi-annual conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 10-JUL-12 - 13-JUL-12, Paris, France
• Roland Erne and Sabina Stan, Beyond Supply and Demand Models. Analysing the Impact of Romanian Workers¿ Westward Migration on Romanian Economy and Society, Society for Romanian Studies, 02-JUL-12 - 04-JUL-12, Sibiu, Romania
• Sabina Stan and Roland Erne, Contextualising Migration. The Political Economy of Post-Socialist Romanian Migration, Society for Romanian Studies, 02-JUL-12 - 04-JUL-12, Sibiu, Romania
• H. Bludau, J. Carroll, M. Rasell, S. Stan, E. Szenassy, and V. Toma, , Health in Transition: Ethnographies of Bio-Medicine in Post-Socialist Europe (http://www.hitconference.org/), 07-JUN-12 - 08-JUN-12, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
• Sabina Stan, Transnational healthcare practices of Romanian migrants in Ireland: social mobility and the marketisation of healthcare services in Europe, Health in Transition: Ethnographies of Bio-Medicine in Post-Socialist Europe (http://www.hitconference.org/), 07-JUN-12 - 08-JUN-12, Romanian Academy of Sciences, Bucharest, Romania
• Sabina Stan, Neither Commodities nor Gifts: Post-Socialist Informal Exchanges in the Romanian Healthcare System, Health in Transition: (Bio)Medicine as Culture in Post-Socialist Europe Conference, 10-JUN-11 - 11-JUN-11, Charles University, Prague
• Sabina Stan, Corruption, Class Formation and the Anthropology of Neoliberalism, Bi-Annual Congress of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 24-AUG-10 - 27-AUG-10, NUI Maynooth
• Sabina Stan, Work, Postsocialism and the Flexible Transmigrant, Department of Anthropology 'Anthropology Seminars' series, 25-FEB-10 - , NUI Maynooth
• Sabina Stan and Valentin-Veron Toma, DATA, PAPER AND PEOPLE. MANAGERIALISM, MARKET AND INFORMAL RELATIONS IN THE INFORMATISATION OF THE ROMANIAN HEALTH CARE SYSTEM, 21st meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics, 16-JUL-09 - 18-JUL-09, Sciences Po, Paris, France
• Sabina Stan, Work, Postsocialism and the Flexible Transmigrant, Employment Research Centre Seminar Series, 18-MAY-09 - 18-MAY-09, Trinity College Dublin
• Sabina Stan, Whose Corruption? Neo-liberalism, Class and the European Integration to the East, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Biannual Conference, 26-AUG-08 - 30-AUG-08, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• Siobhan MacDermott, Colleen O¿Neil, Mary Clynes, Nora Kilkullen, Stephanie Lawrence, Sara Raftery, Sabina Stan, Accounting for MRSA: Organisational change and hospital-acquired infections in the Irish health care system, Thinking, Feeling, Being. Critical Perspectives and Creative Engagement in Psychosocial Health- Health4Life Conference, 10-SEP-07 - 12-SEP-07, School of Nursing, Dublin City University
• Sabina Stan and Valentin Toma, High-tech Romania? The Mangerialist Informatisation of the Romanian Health Care System, 5th International Congress on Romanian Studies, 25-JUN-07 - 28-JUN-07, Ovidius University, Constanta, Romania
• Sabina Stan, Neither commodities nor gifts. Uncertainty in health care services in Romania, Bi-Annual Congress of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 18-SEP-06 - 21-SEP-06, Bristol, UK
• Adam Drazin & Sabina Stan (organisers), (workshop) Moral Journeys: Manifestations of Certainty and Uncertainty across Europe, Bi-Annual Congress of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 18-SEP-06 - 21-SEP-06, Bristol, UK
• Sabina Stan, session ¿Health care contexts II¿, International Philosophy of Nursing Conference, DCU, 04-SEP-06 - 06-SEP-06, Dublin, Ireland
• Sabina Stan, The Social Construction of the Market. The Post-Socialist Transformation of the Romanian Agriculture, 18th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), 30-JUN-06 - 02-JUL-06, Trier, Germany
• Sabina Stan, The impact of gender, class and ethnicity on health, Summer School for Doctoral Studies of the European Association of Nursing Studies (EANS), 22-JUN-06 - , Maastricht, Nederland
• Sabina Stan, Panel ¿Observation, Representation, and Knowledge¿, 17th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), 02-JUL-05 - , Budapest, Hungary
• Stan, Sabina, Transparency: Seeing, Counting and Experiencing the System, 17th Annual Meeting on Socio-Economics, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE), 30-JUN-05 - 02-JUL-05, Budapest, Hungary
• Sabina Stan, Le discours sur `la crise du système de santé¿ et le nouveau modèle de gouvernance des services de santé au Québec, Research seminar of Réseau interdisciplinaire `Santé, éthique et Société¿ (RISES), Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, 10-MAY-05 - , Lyon, France
• Sabina Stan, Invited participant at the round table "Les politiques publiques en santé : vers l¿éclosion de nouveaux savoirs?" (organizer, Nicole Bernier), Forum/atelier no. 609, 72e Congrès de l¿ACFAS, Université du Québec à Montreal, 12-MAY-04 - , Montréal, Canada
• Sabina Stan, The Social Pig, Workshop on "Porkshop. We have integrated the pig. How do we kill him now?", 12-DEC-03 - , Bucharest, Romania
• Sabina Stan, Transparency, Public Spaces and the European Enlargement in Romania, International Seminar on the Balkans, Centre d¿études allemandes et européennes (CEAE), Université de Montréal, 23-NOV-03 - , Montréal, Canada
• Sabina Stan, The Private Sector, the Market and the (Public) System: Magic Mirrors and Moving Targets in the Quebec Health Care Policy, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Associations (AAA), 19-NOV-03 - 23-NOV-03, Chicago, United States
• Sabina Stan and Melanie Rock, Panel"Textual Pathways and Tournaments: Do Policies Have Social Lives?", Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Associations (AAA), 19-NOV-03 - 23-NOV-03, Chicago, United States
• Sabina Stan, Shrinking Worlds, Disconnected Lives. The Post-Communist Saga of Romanian Grains, Congress of the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association (CSAA), Dalhousie University, 28-MAY-03 - 04-JUN-03, Halifax, Canada
• Sabina Stan, Imagining the 'system' and its limits. The discourse on the 'crisis of the health care system' in Quebec, Canadian Anthropology Society/La Société Canadienne d'Anthropologie (CASCA) and the Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Joint Annual Congress, Dalhousie University, 08-MAY-03 - 11-MAY-03, Halifax, Canada
• Sabina Stan, Régimes de vérité et quête de l'origine: marché et monde des objets dans la Roumanie post-communiste, international conference on `Objets mobiles¿, Centre interuniversitaire d'Études sur les Lettres, les Arts et les Traditions (CELAT), Musée des civilisations, 13-MAR-03 - 15-MAR-03, Québec, Canada
• Sabina Stan, Nation, Cabbage Rolls and Ham in Romania: The Semiotics of Pig Production and Consumption in Romania, Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Harriman Centre, Columbia University, 11-APR-02 - 13-APR-02, New York, United States
• Sabina Stan, Chair and organizer for the panel "Unpacking Post-Socialist Consumption. Rapid Change, Commodities and New Projects of Value", Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Associations (AAA), 28-NOV-01 - 02-DEC-01, Washington D.C, United States
• Sabina Stan, Truth and Honesty: Struggles Around Food and Labour Commodification in Rural Romania, Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Associations (AAA), 28-NOV-01 - 02-DEC-01, Washington D.C, United States
• Sabina Stan, Chair and organiser, Challenges of the European Union Enlargement to the East, Centre d'études allemandes et européennes (CEAE), Université de Montréal, 14-SEP-01 - 15-SEP-01, Montréal, Canada