We are happy to congratulate our former Master student Olga Bostan for receiving the SOG Award by the South East Europa Association.
Olga Bostan participated in the 62nd International Academic Week organized by South East Europa Association in cooperation with the Akademie für Politische Bildung. During this annual event researchers of all levels from (MA, PhD, Post-Doc) as well as experienced scholars come together to discuss a topic regarding South East Europe. This year’s topic was ‘Smallness in International Politics: The Agency of Small States in Southeast Europe’. During the International Academic Week they awarded Olga Bostans Master thesis with the SOG Award for Master Thesis.
Her Master thesis ‘One drop at a time: Waterways in rural Moldova’ explored, as she put it: “the practices and socio-technical bricolages through which rural Moldovans secure access to potable water, as well as the ways in which they evaluate and negotiate the quality of water in everyday life.“ She hopes that this Award will promote research that focuses on the lived experiences of people especially those living in political marginalization and simultaneously with environmental challenges.
Olga Bostan is currently working as a PhD candidate at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology. There she is working as part of the Department ‘Anthropology of Politics and Governance’.
