PM (Petrica) Mogos, MSc

Biography

Petrică is a PhD candidate in the Sociology of Popular Music and a lecturer at the Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication. His research examines social, cultural, and institutional transformations in Romania following the transition from state socialism to neoliberal capitalism. Working through a historical-sociological lens, he traces contradictions, continuities, and unexpected entanglements within the music sector, asking how musicians and cultural actors more broadly make sense of systemic change in everyday practice. Drawing from debates in cultural sociology, social history, and the anthropology of postsocialism, his PhD project focuses on how moments of radical transformation are navigated by individuals and institutions in times of crisis.

Alongside his research, Petrică teaches or has taught courses in sociology (Contemporary Approaches to Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Arts and Culture), philosophy of science (Academic Skills) and undergraduate research methods (Introduction to Social Science Methods), and he supervises bachelor’s theses and (research) internships.

His peer-reviewed work has been published in academic journals such as East European Politics and Societies (Sage Journals), Comparative Studies in Society and History (Cambridge University Press), Dune Journal: Writings on Fashion, Design and Visual Culture (Università Iuav di Venezia), and Soapbox (Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, UvA). He has presented his academic research at KISMIF (University of Porto); IASPM (University of Groningen); Dag van de Sociologie (Radboud University Nijmegen); and Popular Music in (Post-)Communist Europe (Palacký University, Olomouc).

His popular writing has appeared in magazines and journals such as MacGuffin (Amsterdam), Errant Journal (Amsterdam), This is Badland (Berlin), Eurozine (Vienna), and Kajet (Bucharest), which he also co-edits. He has also spoken, mostly on Eastern European-related matters, at venues including the Sandberg Instituut (Amsterdam), ISBN könyv+galéria (Budapest), Indiecon, Oberhafen (Hamburg), the Academy of Performing Arts (Prague), de Appel (Amsterdam), Fotodok (Utrecht), Burg Hülshoff: Center for Literature (Münster), Off-Biennale (Budapest), Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3 (Lyon), the University of Technology (Brno), and The Grey Space in the Middle (The Hague).