Faculty Professors of the Department

PhD in Migrations and Social Mediation from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2015). She holds a Master's degree in Social Psychology and Political Violence from the Universidad San Carlos de Guatemala (2004) and a Master's degree in Migration and Social Mediation (URV, 2010). She holds a degree in Social Work from Rafael Landívar University (Guatemala, 2000).  Her teaching experience began in Guatemala in the 1990s. She is a member of L'ITA, of the Chair of Social Inclusion, of the Medical Anthropology Research Center (MARC) and of the board of the Faculty of Legal Sciences of the URV. She has specialised in the phenomenon of resilience and its approach. She is the author of several books and book chapters. She has also numerous articles in indexed journals addressing resilience in migration contexts, feminicide, mixed couples and teaching in social work. She has participated in several R&D research projects on different topics (most recently on care, drug use and ageing). She has been a reviewer for high-impact journals. She has recently started research on ageing from different fields and is currently the Principal Investigator of the project AGORAge. Ageing in caring community (pilot of the H2020-COESO project), and member of the project "Active Ageing, a healthy lifestyle" coordinated by the University of Palacký University Olomouc (Czech Rep.).

Martín Correa-Urquiza Vidal holds a PhD in Medical Anthropology from the URV (2010), a degree in Communication Sciences from Buenos Aires University (1997), a Master's in Public Opinion from FLACSO (Argentina) (1998), and a Master's in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2005). He is a co-director and the coordinator of the URV's graduate programme in Collective Mental Health and a part-time lecturer at the Open University of Catalonia (UOC). He has research expertise in several fields, including health, mental health, and communitarian communication. He is a founder and general coordinator of the Radio Nikosia social and cultural association. He is also a member of the Research Group in Social Anthropology (URV) and the coordinator of the Research Group in the Anthropology of Madness (Catalan Institute of Anthropology).

Blanca holds a PhD in Sociology (UB, 2002). Degree in Geography and History, specializing in cultural anthropology (UB, 1989). She received a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship (2004-2005) for Boston University and for Harvard University (2006 and 2008). Professor at the URV since 2009. She has been the coordinator of the EU project Horizon 2020: SoCaTel. A multi-stakeholder co-creation platform for better access to long-term care services (2017-21), in which the SoCaTel platform for carrying out digital co-creation of long-term care services has been developed from a humanistic centric approach. Two twinning projects from DigitalHelathEurope, 2020 in Italy (Veneto) and In-4-AHA (EIP on AHA), 2022 in the Czech Republic (Ústí nad Labem) on the adoption of the SoCaTel platform are being carried out. She has also participated in other European funded projects on long-term care: the COST Action social services, welfare states and places (2011-15) and COST Action Ageism a multi-national, interdisciplinary perspective (2014-18). Guest Editor of the Special Issue of the Journal of Social Service Research (2016) about ageing and the economic crisis. She was the coordinator of the Master Degree on Medical Anthropology and Global Health (2016-2018). She is also collaborator at the Finnish Centre of Excellence AgeCare, University of Jyväskylä, where she is involving digitalisation of care work. She is also an associate member of Boston University's Institute for the Advancement of the Social Sciences and member of the UNESCO Housing Chair at the URV.

 (1951-2019) PhD in Anthropology by the University of Massachusetts, USA (1985). She received her training in medical anthropology through a postdoc in the Department of Social Medicine and Global Health at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University. She specialised in cultural studies of biomedicine, specifically the experience and survival of cancer, narratives of illness and autoethnography, and adolescent mental health and distress. Her research activity is notable for her ethnographic fieldwork, both in Catalonia and in the United States.

Cristina holds a Ph.D. in Urban Anthropology from the URV (2011), excellent cum laude and Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Degree in Sociology (UAB, 2002) and Diploma in Social Work (UB, 1995). She has been a lecturer at the URV since 2003. She has carried out postdoctoral research stays at the Université Moulay Ismaïl (Morocco), Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Sao Paulo, Brazil) and Universidad de La Habana (Cuba). She has participated in R+D+I research projects of the Plan Nacional de Investigació, on gender issues, migrations and transnational trajectories. In 2013 she received an Academic Activity Award from the URV. She is an external evaluator of publications linked to CSIC Collections, among others. She is currently secretary of the Department.

Angel holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropology (UB, 1994). He has held various academic positions at the URV and was the director of the Department from 2012 to 2016. He has been professor or visiting professor/researcher, among others, at the UB, the University of California at Berkeley, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universitá degli Studi di Perugia and various universities in Brazil. He is an advisor, expert and/or evaluator for various public bodies, including the World Health Organization-Regional Office for Europe and the EU's Sixth Framework Programme. He has published more than 100 articles and book chapters, as well as several books. Currently, he is one of the principal researchers of the R&D project: “Síndrome de Cautiverio: Análisis compartaivo de la experiencias de las personas afectadas"  and is the director of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC).

Jordi holds a PhD in Anthropology from the URV (2009) and a Master's in Euro-Arab Studies (University of Girona, 1993). Between 1995 and 2001 he was coordinator of the migration area of the Cidob Foundation and, between 2002 and 2003, head of studies at the Secretariat of Religious Affairs of the Generalitat de Catalunya. He has published eight monographs and several articles in journals such as The Muslim World, Revista d'Etnologia de Catalunya, Arxiu d'Etnografia de Catalunya, Afers Internacionals, Migraciones and Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, among others. He currently coordinates the Master in Medical Anthropology and Global Health.

Carmina holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, 2009) with the thesis La supervisión en la intervención social (Supervision in social intervention), Extraordinary Doctorate Award. Degree in Psychology (Univ. Ramon Llull, 2000). Postgraduate in Counselling (Univ. Ramon Llull, 2001) and in Systemic Coaching (UAB, 2009). Master in Anthropology of Medicine and International Health (URV, 2007). She collaborates with institutions and organisations in social welfare and health programmes, and in the supervision of teams of professionals. She has been a visiting lecturer and researcher at various Latin American universities, such as the Univ. Nacional de Rosario (Argentina), the Univ. Nacional de México and the Univ. de la Rep. de Uruguay, among others. She has also been a guest lecturer at the Spanish universities of Granada, Complutense de Madrid, Alicante and Zaragoza. She is Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Social Work.

Montserrat holds a PhD in Anthropology (URV, 2002). Head of the Department from 2020 to 2024. Coordinator of two master's programs of the Department (2007-2016). She has conducted research on the field of family and kinship in the context of the mechanisms of reproduction and transformation of agrarian and rural societies, on which she has published several articles and books. She also studies international migrations, with special interest in transnational families and the impact of migratory flows in rural contexts, new ruralities and re-agrarianization initiatives. The latest projects in which she has participated are linked to the care of the elderly and dependents, gender inequalities and recently on the impact of Covid-19 on caregivers.  She is currently co-principal investigator of a coordinated R+D+I project (2021-2024) on the impact of COVID-19 on the social organization of care and transformation of the social care model.

He holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, 1997). He has been a professor at the URV since 1999. Consultant professor at the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the UOC, since 2001. He has conducted research work mainly in the fields of religion and religious movements, as well as politics and social movements. Since 2006 she is a member of the Research Group on Anthropology of the Body at the Institution Milà i Fontanals, CSIC. He has developed research projects in Spain on the Hare Krishna movement and Tibetan Buddhism, in Mexico on Pentecostal Protestantism and in Brazil on the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST). He has also studied political-religious conflict processes and the indigenous movement in Latin America.  He was coordinator of the Anthropology and Human Evolution Degree, Department from 2016-2020. He has been a visiting professor at UFRGS in Porto Alegre, Brazil (2005-06) and was coordinator of the Anthropology and Human Evolution Undergraduate Degree of the Department from 2014-2020. His latest research in R+D+i projects deals with the topics of transhumanism and posthumanism. He is the sole author of several books. The most recent is "Dreams of Perfection. Tantric Buddhism and transhumanist perspective" (2021).

Eva holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (UB, 2007, Cum Laude and Extraordinary Doctorate Award and Honorary Mention for Cultural Research Marqués de Lozoya, 2009). Master in Anthropology of Medicine (URV, 2002). Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, 2000). Diploma in Nursing (University of Valencia, 1998). She has collaborated in different research groups (Social Anthropology Group, Food Observatory of the University of Barcelona, UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean, Medical Anthropology Research Center, Institut Interuniversitari d'Estudis de Dones i Gènere), and has participated in the design and implementation of numerous national and international projects. She has carried out research internships at the Institute of Nursing and Health Care (Tampere, Finland), at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (Mexico), at the Observatoire Cniel des Habitudes Alimentaires (París), at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina) and at the Université Moulay Ismail (Morocco). She is a member of the Food Observatory of the Science Park of the University of Barcelona. She has been a professor at the URV since 2006 and since 2018 she has been coordinator of the Master in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention. She is also responsible for equality in the Faculty of Legal Sciences, as well as a member of the Teaching Innovation Group (GID) of the same faculty.

Research interests: Anthropology of health, gender studies, equality policies; research methodologies and socio-educational intervention.

Teaching: Undergraduate degree in Social Work; Master in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention; Doctoral programme in Social Work, Doctoral programme in Anthropology and Communication.

eva.zafra@urv.cat