Emanuela Grama is a PhD candidate in the Doctoral Program in Anthropology and History. Her dissertation examines the political and social dimensions of "heritage" development in contemporary Romania by focusing on two major projects of built heritage rehabilitation: 1) the re-making of the historical center of Sibiu, a lieux-de-mémoire of Transylvania's German minority and 2) the Bánffy castle in Bontida (once known as the "Versailles of Transylvania"). Before engaging in her dissertation research, she had also published "Work, State, and the Linguistic Construction of 'Self' in Romania of the 1950s and 1960s. A Case Study." (2006) and "Networking Texts and Persons: Politics of Plagiarism in Post socialist Romania" (2004), both in the Romanian Journal of Society and Politics.