ANTHROMOB Team

Dr. Cosmin Popan is an interdisciplinary scholar whose work sits at the intersection of sociology, human geography, and anthropology. His research expertise spans urban mobilities, platform labour, and migration imaginaries, with extensive ethnographic research conducted across the UK, Romania, France, and Senegal. His work combines theoretically engaged inquiry with a strong commitment to collaborative and creative methodologies, which he employs to explore the social, spatial, and material dimensions of contemporary mobility.

Dr. Beja Protner is a sociocultural anthropologist with interests in migration and immobility, borders, exile, social experiences of space and time, belonging and exclusion, memory, emotions, subjectivity, and political/social movements. She grew up in Slovenia and has studied, researched, and/or worked in Turkey, the UK, Greece, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Austria. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge (2025). She likes to think different kinds of (im)mobility together to understand experiences of migration, such as for instance embodied movement, spatiotemporal and socioeconomic immobility, digital (“mobile”) technologies, and political/social movements. She has been involved in struggles and advocacy projects against political and border violence and for people’s rights in her fieldsites and beyond.

Dr. Sonja Ruud is an anthropologist working at the intersection of mobility and labor. With research spanning various scales of mobility, from migration and displacement to public transport, her work explores themes of value and devaluation, everyday working practices and work transformations, collaboration and co-creation, emotions, multilingualism, and (counter)nationalisms. With commitments to public anthropology, participative ethnographic methods, and horizontality, she seeks to actively counter the hierarchical, exclusionary, and extractivist dynamics of academia through her work.