Constanţa VINTILĂ is a Senior Researcher in the Department of Modern History at the ‘Nicolae Iorga’ Institute of History, Romanian Academy. She received her PhD in History et Civilisation, from EHESS, Paris (2004) and in Sociology from University of Bucharest (2012). She was the recipient of the ERC Consolidator Research Grant entitled ”Luxury, Fashion and Social Status in the Early Modern South-Eastern Europe”, hosted by New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest (2015-2020). She was researcher, visiting professor, or guest lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) (2002, 2003, 2007), Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) (2007), University of Toulouse (2008), University Paris-Sorbonne IV (Centre Roland Mousnier) (2012, 2015), Freie Universität Berlin (2016), University of Amsterdam (2017), University of Munster (2017). She was a research fellow of the New Europe College – Institute for Advanced Study, Bucharest (2001-2002, 2006-2007, 2020-2021), and fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin (2015-2016); postdoctoral fellow of Agence universitaire de la francophonie at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (Paris) (2004-2005).
She is a social historian who dedicates her research to the history of family, mobility, and material culture in pre-modern and modern South-eastern Europe. She started her career studying the history of family in the eighteenth-century Romanian society. Her scholarship has made important contributions to the history of the family in South-eastern Europe by exploring and analyzing a huge number of primary archives kept by the ecclesiastical and civil courts in Wallachia and Moldavia. Her international scientific visibility has increased after she received an ERC Consolidator Grant. In the framework of the ERC project LuxFass, she focused on luxury and social status, and material culture across South-East Europe.