The Daily Life of a Grantee in Paris. Attitudes, Perceptions, Practices

Abstract

This research examines the importance of the 1932-1934 Paris scholarship of Ştefania Cristescu (one of the most important monographists of the Gustian School), viewed both as a personal strategic choice meant to consolidate her status as an academic researcher and as an occasion for us to learn about the daily life of the interwar Romanian students in Western Europe. I discuss in this paper why it is important to develop a social history of the academic formation of the intellectual elites of modern Romania through scholarships in foreign countries.

Keywords

• Gustian School
• monograph
• Ştefania Critescu
• crisis of monographic sociology
• social history
• scholarship
• interwar academics