Academic Career

2007-8 Department of Anthropology, NUIM Maynooth
2003-7 Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin
Award: IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2004 Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Industrial Design, Technical University of Eindhoven
2002 Researcher, Hewlett-Packard Labs, Bristol, UK
2001 PhD Social Anthropology, University College London
1999-2000 Part-Time Lecturer, RCA, Royal College of Art, London
1997-8 Junior Lecturer, Universitatea Stefan Cel Mare, Suceava, Romania
1992 BA (hons) Archaeology & Anthropology, Jesus College, University of Cambridge
 

Research Interests

I have three broad research interests, which revolve around the material culture of uncertainty. I conduct ongoing research in Romania on the home and changing domestic and national cultures. My postdoctoral work extends this to Ireland, where I am currently writing up my postdoctoral work for a book on Irish-romanian homes, intentionality, and hospitality.

Secondly, I work conducting material-culture focussed research to inform product design. This has involved looking at new audio-visual technologies, how the home can support technologies for independent living as we age, and transport in rural ireland for an ageing population.

I am lastly involved in collaborative work on ethnographic museums in Ireland. This has involved organising a major conference in 2007, from which a book and papers are emerging.
 

Publications

(Forthcoming:)
The Globe in a Glass Case: edited volume of conference papers under consideration for a book, and with a contract offered by LIT Verlag, jointly edited with Seamas O’Siochain and Pauline Garvey
Anthropology, Design & Technology in Ireland: a special joint journal edition of Anthropology in Action and Irish Journal of Anthropology, due Summer 2008, co-edited with Pauline Garvey
‘Vânătoarea de molii: curățenie, intimitate și progres în România’ , Romanian translation of a paper from 2002, to appear in a book on Urban Ethnography in Romania (ed. Vintila Mihailescu)

2007 Drazin, A. & D, Frohlich 2007 ‘Good Intentions: Remembering through Framing Photographs in English Homes’ in Ethnos, Spring 2007 edition
2007 Luff, P., G. Adams, W. Bock, A. Drazin, D. Frohlich, C. Heath, P. Herdman, R. Murphy, M. Norrie, A. Sellen, B. Signer, E. Tallyn and E. Zeller, ‘Creating Affinities: Developing Relationships between Digital Content and Paper’ in The Disappearing Computer, edited volume on assorted EU-funded projects in Disappearing Computer initiative.
2007 Roberts, S., T. Basi, A.Drazin & J. Wherton Connections: Mobility and Quality of life for Older People in Rural Ireland. A report based on research by Intel, for the Rural Transport Programme. (not a refereed publication, but a substantial public report)
2006 Drazin, A. ‘Applying Ethnography: the Need for Applied Anthropologists to Engage with Non-ethnographic Research Methods’, in S. Pink (Ed) Applications of Anthropology, Berghahn.
2005 --- ‘Architecture without Architects: building home and state in Romania’ in Home Cultures journal.
2002 --- ‘Chasing Moths: Cleanliness, Intimacy and Progress in Romania’ in R. Mandel & C. Humphrey (Eds) Markets and Moralities, London: Berg
2001 --- ‘“Omul se va Mobila” - “a Man Will get Furnished”: Wood and Domesticity in Urban Romania’, in D. Miller (Ed) Home Possessions: Material Culture Behind Closed Doors, London: Berg
2000 --- & N. Cimpoes, ‘“Toate Sapune sunt Jafuri” - “All Soaps are Rip-Offs”: Soaps and Successful Domesticity in Urban Romania’ in V. Mihailescu (Ed) The Year Book of the Romanian Society for Cultural Anthropology, Paideia: Bucharest
 

Papers Delivered

I have presented at numerous conferences, and have co-organised workshops and conferences on the Anthropology of Uncertainty, Ethnographic Museums, Approaches to Material culture, and Design Anthropology.

Teaching

The Anthropology of central & eastern Europe (NUIM)
The Anthropology of Europe (NUIM)
Cultures of Mass Consumption (TCD)
The Social Life of Things (NUIM)
Design Anthropology & Creativity in Anthropology (NUIM)
An Introduction to Archaeology for Anthropologists (DBS)
The Anthropology of Gender (DBS)
Ethnographic Research Methods for Sociologists (TCD)
Introduction to Qualitative Research Software Use (TCD)
Ethnographic Research Methods for Industrial Designers (RCA, TU/e, NCAD)
Theory & Ethnography (NUIM)
 

Contact Details

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