Leyla Safta-Zecheria is a pedagogist and an anthropologist. She is an assistant professor at the Educational Sciences Department, West University of Timișoara (Romania), as well as a postdoctoral researcher with the project "Philosophy in Late Socialist Europe: Theoretical Practices in the Face of Polycrisis" at the Babeș-Bolyai University (Romania) and a research affiliate of the Inequalities and Democracy Workgroup at the Democracy Institute at Central European University Budapest/Vienna (Hungary/Austria). She holds a PhD in Political Science from Central European University Budapest and an MA in European Ethnology from Humboldt University Berlin. She has held research fellowships at the Institut fur die Wissenschaften vom Menschen (Vienna/ Austria), the New Europe College Bucharest, the Universidad Federal de Sao Carlos (Sao Paulo/ Brazil) and the University of Toronto (Canada). In her current research, she uses qualitative, visual and participatory methods to understand the ways in which instances of social, economic and educational inequality are lived through and described by marginalized people, as well as how these instances come to be constructed socially and epistemologically.

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