Stefan Dorondel is a senior researcher at the Francisc I. Rainer Institute of Anthropology, Bucharest, and affiliated with the Institute for Southeast European Studies at the Romanian Academy. Stefan holds a Ph.D. in history and ethnology from the Lucian Blaga University in Sibiu (Romania) and a Ph.D. in rural studies from Humboldt University Berlin. He is an anthropologist and environmental historian interested in the environmental transformation of postsocialist countries. His monograph Disrupted Landscapes: State, Peasants and the Politics of Land in Postsocialist Romania explores the many ways socialist and postsocialist policies of land reform disrupted humans, animals, rivers, and forests. With Thomas Sikor, Johannes Stahl, and Phuc Xuan To, he also co-authored the monograph When Things Become Property: Land Reform, Authority, and Value in Postsocialist Europe and Asia, published within the Max Planck Studies in Anthropology and Economy (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 though 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.

Stefan returned as a Carson Fellow in 2020.