Faculty Professors of the Department

PhD in Medical Anthropology, Bachelor's Degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and Social Worker from the University of Valencia (2009). She has been a Juan de la Cierva postdoctoral fellow in the Lis Research Group - Estudis socials i de gènere sobre la corporalitat, la subjectivitat i el patiment evitable of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and at the Instituto Universitario de Investigación de Estudios de las Mujeres y del Género of Granada University. She has participated and continues to participate in various national and international projects, such as Gestión Colaborativa de la Medicación, or CUSAM: Mujeres cuidadoras de personas con trastorno mental grave: retos para un cuidado democrático y colectivo. Since 2018 she has been a teacher at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya and the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. She is a member of the Medical Anthropology Research Center, the URV Chair of Social Inclusion, the editorial board of the Medical Anthropology Collection (Publicacions URV), the board of the Institut Català d'Antropologia, and is co-coordinator of the Red de Antropología Médica y de la Salud of the Asociación de Antropología del Estado Español.

PhD in Migrations and Social Mediation from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2015). 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 the Research Group GAS 2021 SGR 00107, 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, political violence, feminicides, mixed couples and teaching in social work. She has participated in several R&D projects on different topics (mixed couples, care, femicide, drug use and ageing). She has been a reviewer for high-impact journals and is at present co-director of the Social Work journal RTS. Recently, she has been the Principal Investigator of the project AGORAge. Ageing in caring community (pilot of the H2020-COESO project). At present she is the Principal Investigator of the R&D project (2023-2026), ResiYouth, 'Immigrant-origin youth resilient strategies against social exclusion' to identify and analyze the resilience developed by immigrant-origin youth living in Catalonia to face situations and processes of social exclusion.

PhD in Medical Anthropology from the URV (2010), Master's in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (2005); BA in Communication Sciences from Buenos Aires University (1997), Master's in Public Opinion from FLACSO (Argentina) (1998). He is a co-director and the coordinator of the Master's in Medical Anthropology and Global 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).

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 have also been developed. 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 in 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.

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 teaching at the URV since 2003. She has carried out postdoctoral research 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.

PhD in Social Anthropology from the Universitat de Barcelona (2011), with degrees in History (2011) and Anthropology (2005) from the same university. From 2013 to 2025, he was affiliated with Iscte - Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (Portugal), where he taught and developed several research projects. Throughout his career, he has specialized in urban studies, transnational migrations, and ethnographic methods, mainly focusing on four lines of research: (1) International students and student migration: youth cultures, social class, and lifestyle mobility; (2) Urban transformations: night-time gentrification, heritage, touristification, and social movements; (3) Anthropology of infrastructures: daily mobility, urban planning, and public space; (4) Ethnic minorities in the city: identity and everyday resistance in urban contexts. He has participated in several funded projects both in Spain (HABITPAT, FLUXUS, TRANSAFRICA, MOVER) and Portugal (SOUNDSofTOURISM, ChangingCities, CONTOR, FAMI). Throughout his career, he has been part of numerous multidisciplinary research networks, such as OACU, Etno.Urb, and LXNIGHTS (which he co-founded), two COST Actions (as a member), and RedeMigra, which is part of the IMISCOE network on migration studies. He has published numerous research articles in leading journals such as Urban Studies, Population, Space and Place, Social and Cultural Geography, City & Community, Leisure Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, Journal of Youth Studies, Etnográfica, and Mobilities. In addition, he co-authored the monograph Hiace. Antropología de las carreteras and co-edited the volume Ambiance, Tourism and the City (Routledge).

Full Professor of Anthropology, ICREA-Academia Award (2020), Distinguished Professor (2019), and director of the Medical Anthropology Research Centre (MARC) at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili. He received his PhD from the Universitat de Barcelona with a thesis that was subsequently published (2000) by Routledge with a foreword by Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University): What's Behind the Symptom? He has been a researcher or visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, the Universitá degli Studi di Perugia, the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brazil), the University of California San Diego (Fulbright), and the Università di Roma La Sapienza, among others.  He has authored or co-authored more than 30 books and reports and 150 book chapters and articles in journals such as American Anthropologist, Social Science & Medicine, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, BMJ Global Health, Socio-Anthropologie, AM Rivista della Società Italiana di Antropologia Medica, European Journal of Public Health, Medical Anthropology, and Global Public Health, among many others. He has been an expert for the World Health Organization-Regional Office for Europe, and evaluator for several academic and non-academic programmes, such as the "European Commission Framework Programmes". His book co-edited with Stella Evangelidou : RESET: Anthropological reflections amid the Covid-19 pandemic (2020) received the XXIV National University Publishing Award (best monograph in health sciences). Since 2017 he is International Fellow at the Center for Global Mental Health at the University of California San Diego.

PhD in Anthropology from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2017), Master in Migrations and Social Mediation (URV, 2012) and BA in Anthropology from the University of Buenos Aires (2008). Her main lines of research are international migration, reproductive work and the social organisation of care from an intersectional and transnational perspective, in rural and urban areas. She is the author of numerous publications where she has analysed these issues, paying special attention to processes of social stratification, gender, labour market segregation and its consequences for health, as well as processes of collective action and community organisation. She has participated in numerous national and international competitive research projects. Between 2019 and 2021 she has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Haute Ecole Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale (Valais, Switzerland). She has also worked on several projects aimed at migrant population in different areas of social intervention (educational, legal, socio-assistance), in Milan (Italy) where she lived between 2005 and 2010.

PhD from the UB (1992). He has been principal investigator of several R+D+I projects of the National Research Plan and other competitive calls projects focused, among others, on the different gender dimensions present in the so-called "love migrations" and "mixed couples". He has done fieldwork in Spain, Mexico, Brazil and Ukraine. He has been director of the Department from 2008 to 2012. He has also been coordinator of the PhD program in Urban Anthropology, with mention of quality, and subsequently of the Anthropology and Anthropology and Communication, as well as responsible for the Master in Urban Anthropology. He has made several visits as guest or visiting professor at the Univ. of California (USA); UNAM, CIESAS and Iberoamericana, in Mexico; and Campinas, UFRJ and Natal, in Brazil; among others. Currently, he is the Coordinator of the Doctoral Programme in Anthropology and Communication.

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology (URV, 2009); diploma in Social Work (URV,1989) and degree in Social Anthropology (URV, 1999). Responsible of the Degree in Social Work at the URV in different periods. Promoter of the Master in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention. She has done research in different population areas (people with intellectual disabilities, migrations, children in poverty, care of dependent people, supervision and impact of COVID-19), always from the perspective of the needs of care and attention to people in vulnerable situations and professionals working in the sectors, the public-private relationship in the management of services and the applied dimension to propose lines of social intervention of local and political impact. Consulting services to socio-educational networks and community plans.

PhD in Anthropology and Communication, she has carried out ethnographic work on Chagas, Covid-19, cervical cancer and environmental toxicities. Her research focuses on embodied knowledge, reproductive justice, biomedical cultures, crises and their articulation with social inequalities. Her work also explores auto-ethnographic, participatory, and arts-based methodologies, with a strong commitment to knowledge transfer and social impact. She has been a postdoctoral researcher in the CareNet group (IN3-UOC); UKRI Guarantee Fellow at the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, University of Edinburgh, following a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship; as well as a visiting researcher at the Health Equity Institute of San Francisco State University.

PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the University of Barcelona. Her doctoral thesis received the Honourable Mention for Cultural Research Marqués de Lozoya, 2009. She has a Master's degree in Anthropology of Medicine, a Bachelor's degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and a Diploma in Nursing from the University of Valencia. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology, Philosophy and Social Work at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili and a member of the research groups of Social Anthropology of the URV, Food Observatory of the University of Barcelona, UNESCO Chair of Intercultural Dialogue in the Mediterranean, Medical Anthropology Research Center, and the Interuniversity Institute of Women and Gender Studies of Catalonia. She has carried out research and teaching stays at the Institute of Nursing and Health Care (Finland), at the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-Xochimilco (Mexico), at the Observatoire Cniel des Habitudes Alimentaires (Paris), at the University of Buenos Aires (Argentina), and at the Université Moulay Ismail (Morocco). She is a member of the Community of Practice for the Study of Domestic Homicide, where she is currently participating in the creation of an international repository on gender-based violence orphans, a project funded by the Australian National Health and Medical Research Council, led by Professor Eva Alisic. She has participated in various public administration commissions, and in 2023 she appeared before the Parliament of Catalonia in relation to the regional bill to amend article 47 of Law 5/2008, of 24 April, on the right of women to eradicate gender-based violence, regarding compensation and aid for women victims of gender-based violence and their daughters and sons.
She is currently the coordinator of the Master's Degree in Innovation in Social and Educational Intervention, responsible for Equality in the Faculty of Legal Sciences, and member of the Teaching Innovation and Gender Group of the same faculty. She has participated in and/or led more than 30 national and international projects on health, childhood and gender.

She is currently principal investigator of the following projects: FEMMAP- Geomap on the socio-demographic situation of children who are victims of femicide; DigitaliSSB - Promotion of the Digitalisation of the Basic Social Services of Catalonia; and FEMMINOR – Needs and rights of children of feminicide: A transdisciplinary approach to the consequences of gender violence in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, funded by the Ministry of Science and Innovation (Spanish government). The latter has just received the Joan Pedrerol Gallego Award for the Social Impact of Research 2024.

Research interests: childhood and gender violence; methodological innovations with a gender perspective and intersectionality; food education, health and social cohesion.

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