A university lecturer since 2009, Petruța Teampău obtained her PhD in Anthropology in 2008 from Babeș-Bolyai University, with a dissertation titled “Body and Ideological Discourse in Post-Communist Romania.” She teaches courses in political anthropology, qualitative methodology, and gender studies. Her research interests include urban anthropology, community studies, and gender studies. Among her recent publications are Sulina Trăită de Panait Zachis (Cluj-Napoca, EFES, 2010) and Sulina, Altă Lume, Altă Viață (Cluj-Napoca, EFES, 2011); Local Cosmopolitanism: Global Orientations of the Local in Evolving Governance (with Kristof van Assche), Springer Books, 2014; “Pirates, Fish and Tourists: The Life of Post-Communist Sulina” (with Kristof van Assche), in The Bio-politics of the Danube Delta, Lexington Books, London, edited by Constantin Iordachi and Kristof van Assche, 2014, pp. 185–196; and “Shape Your Body, Shape Your Life! Female Imaginaries and Discourses of Corporeality in Post-Socialist Romania,” in Recent History Otherwise: Cultural Perspectives, edited by Andi Mihalache and Adrian Cioflâncă, Iași: Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Press, 2013, pp. 903–928.