Post-doctoral Researchers

Alicia Valdes

Academic Institution: University of Barcelona, Spain

Research topic: Intersectionality and Resistance in Contemporary Athens

Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou

Year of Affiliation: 01/09/22 - 30/09/22 (ASS. 06/07/2022)

Nicolai von Eggers Mariegaard

Academic Institution: Danish Institute of Athens, Greece
Research topic: Metabolisms. Political Change and the Foundations of Political Science
Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou

Year of Affiliation: 2018 (ASS. 17/01/2018)

Cynthia-Eleni Malakasi

Academic Institution: European University Institute, Italy
Research topic: Maternity Care for Refugees and Undocumented Migrants in four European Supervisors at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou & Assoc. Prof. Giorgos Tsimouris Union Countries
Year of Affiliation: July 2017 – August 2018 (ASS. 31/01/2018)

Konstantinos Kalantzis

Academic Institution: UCL, UK
Research topic: Citizens of Photography: The Camera and the Political Imagination Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Eleana Yalouri
Year of Affiliation: June 2017 - August 2018 (ASS. 03/05/2017)

Signe Meisner Christensen

Academic Institution: Aarhus University, Denmark
Research topic: Precarious Infrastructures: Self Organized Practices in Contemporary Art Field and Spaces of Radical Alterity

Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of Affiliation: 2/06/2017 - 31/07/2017 (ASS. 02/06/2017)

Nurdan Turker

Academic Institution: Yeditepe University, Turkey
Research topic: Visual Narratives, Stories of Imbriot and Istambulite “Romioi Orthodox”
Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Giorgos Tsimouris

Year of Affiliation: July 2017- July 2018 (ASS. 05/04/2017)

Briginda Marovelli

Academic Institution: Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland

Research topic: Sharecity: Assessing the practice and sustainability potential of city-based food-sharing economies

Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou

Year of Affiliation: May - October 2017 (ASS. 04/05/2018)

Chrisoula Lionis

Academic Institution: University of New South Wales, Australia
Research topic: Her project aims to unpack how humour in cultural production operates as a mature defense mechanism against trauma, and how it undermines stereotypes, subverts authority structures, and reconfigures relationships to places and identities

Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Eleana Yalouri
Year of Affiliation: April - December 2017 (ASS. 29/3/2017)

Eugenia Roussou

Academic institution:  Centre for Research in Social Anthropology (CRIA), Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, New University of Lisbon, Portugal
Research topic: Religion in/of Crisis: pluralism, spiritual creativity and healing in Portugal and Greece

Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of affiliation: 2014

Kostis Kalantzis

Academic institution:  University College London, UK
Research topic:  The economic crisis and representations of Germany in contemporary Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Eleana Yalouri
Year of affiliation: Academic Year 2013-2014 

Ph.D. candidates (at academic institutions in other countries)

Botonaki Natalia

Academic institution: Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
Doctoral thesis topic: Violence, Performativity, Aestheticization: an exploration of a social movements and mobilization in the 21^st century

Supervisor at Panteion:  Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of affiliation: 01/03/23 - 30/05/23 (ASS. 02/11/2022)

Kavuş Helin Kardelen

Academic institution: Middle East University, Ankara, Turkey

Doctoral thesis topic: A New Wave of “High-Skilled” Migration from Turkey: Call Centre Workers in Athens

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Dimitra Kofti

Year of affiliation: 15/03/23 - 15/03/24 (ASS. 05/10/2022)

Gu Jiapei

Academic institution: Lingnan University, Hong Kong

Doctoral thesis topic: Is Racism a Myth in China: Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Discursive Representations of Africans in China

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Salomi Boukala

Year of affiliation: 16/01/23 - 15/07/23 (ASS. 13/04/2022)

Lindsay Rachael

Academic institution: Cambridge University, UK
Doctoral thesis topic: Agency through time among young people from Pakistan in Greece

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Eirini Avramopoulou
Year of affiliation: 02/11/22 - 31/12/23 (ASS. 02/11/2022)

Daminelli Luca

Academic institution Τμήμα Προέλευσης: University of Genoa, Italy

Doctoral thesis topic: Temporal borders. Migrant subjectivities in the contemporary European space-time

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Katerina Rozakou

Year of affiliation: 01/11/22 - 28/02/23 (ASS. 05/10/2022)

Lopata-Varkas Lucy

Academic institution: University College London, UK

Doctoral thesis topic: (Re)making Jewish Heritage in Greece: An Ethnographic Study

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Dimitra Kofti

Year of affiliation: 01/10/22 - 01/03/23 (ASS. 05/10/2022)

Lad Yash

Academic institution: University College London, UK

Doctoral thesis topic: Investigating Multiculturality in Greece’s Solidarity Clinics

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Katerina Rozakou

Year of affiliation: 15/05/22- 15/07/22 (ASS. 06/07/2022)

Elena Zoe Dennie

Academic institution: University College London, UK

Doctoral thesis topic: Pnevma Resonance: Performance Art Making in Athens, Greece

Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Diana Riboli

Year of affiliation: 01/02/22 - 30/04/23 (ASS. 19/01/2022)

Paul Melas

Academic institution: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), USA
Doctoral thesis topic: Care and the Ascetic Life on Mount Athos
Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Gerasimos Makris
Year of affiliation: Academic Year 2022-23 (ASS. 03/09/2021)

Sharon Jacobs

Academic institution:  University of Pennsylvania, USA
Doctoral thesis topic: Refugee solidarity in Athens
Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Katerina Rozakou
Year of affiliation:  01/01/2022 - 31/12/2022 (ASS. 22/06/2021) and 01/01/23 - 31/12/23 (ASS. 02/11/2022)

Κate Phipps

Academic institution:  Queen Mary University of London, UK
Doctoral thesis topic: Memories and Traces of Migration in Athens
Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Eirini Avramopoulou
Year of affiliation: 07/10/21 - 07/08/22 (ASS. 22/6/2021)

Christina Sternisa

Academic institution: University of Graz, Austria
Doctoral thesis topic: Places of Remembrance of Resistance during the German Occupation in Athens. Cross-generational Continuities, Ruptures and Memory Constructions(ites)

Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Eirini Avramopoulou
Year of affiliation: 07/10/20 - 30/04/21 (ASS. 07/10/2020) and 01/07/21 - 30/09/2021 (ASS. 22/06/2021 and 03/09/2021)

Michaela Korodimou

Academic institution: University of Liege, Belgium
Doctoral thesis topic: Placemaking in Displacement
Supervisor at Panteion:  Prof. Leonidas Economou
Year of affiliation:  01/01/2020 - 31/10/2020 (ASS. 22/01/2020)

Amalia Giannoutsou

Academic institution: Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain
Doctoral thesis topic: (In)Disciplined Bodies and School Rituals. Tactics of Resistance and Empowerment through Performance Ethnography
Supervisor at Panteion:  Prof. Athena Athanasiou

Year of affiliation:  17/09/2019 - 17/01/2020 (ASS. 26/06/2019)

Alvaro Ramirez

Academic institution:  Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Doctoral thesis topic: Excessive Solidarities: Affect, Experience and Political Subjectivity in the Solidarity Movements of the “Refugee Crisis”
Supervisor at Panteion:  Assist. Prof. Eirini Avramopoulou
Year of affiliation:  15/9/2019-15/12/2019 (ASS. 26/06/2019)

Feryal Tansung

Academic institution:  Bahçeşehir University, Turkey
Doctoral thesis topic: Contested Citizenship: Intercommunal Survival in the Aegean Islands
Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Giorgos Tsimouris
Year of affiliation:  Academic Year 2019-2020 (ASS. 03/04/2019)

Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou

Academic institution:  UCL, UK
Doctoral thesis topic: From ‘People on the Move’ to Lives at a Standstill: Multiple Humanitarianisms, Refugee Rights and In/formal Processes of Integration in Post-‘Emergency’ Greece
Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou & Associate Prof. Giorgos Tsimouris
Year of affiliation:  13/03/2019 -  (ASS. 13/03/2019)

John Ryan Karlin

Academic institution:  California Institute of Integral Studies – San Francisco, USA
Doctoral thesis topic: Exilic Spaces in the Contemporary World-System: Greece, Athens, Exarcheia
Supervisor at Panteion: Assist. Prof. Ourania Astrinaki

Year of affiliation: Fall 2019 - Spring 2020 (ASS. 16/01/2019)

Stamatis Amarianakis

Academic institution:  Universitat de Barcelona, Spain
Doctoral thesis topic: Authoritative Economic Models, Everyday Struggles and Grassroots Responses to the Crisis in a Greek County Town: The case of Chalkida.
Supervisor at Panteion:  Assist. Prof. Aliki Angelidou

Year of affiliation: Academic Year 2018-2019 (ASS. 14/11/2018)

Alex Edney-Browne

Academic institution:  University of Melbourne, Australia
Doctoral thesis topic: Emotional and Socio-psychological and Physiological Effects of Drone Warfare

Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of affiliation: March - June 2017 (ASS. 08/02/2017)

Alexia Liakounakou

Academic institution:  University College London, UK
Doctoral thesis topic: Austere Beauty: Cosmetic medicine in Greece since 2010
Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Eleni Papagaroufali
Year of affiliation: Academic Year 2016-17

Tyler Boersen

Academic institution: Department of Social Anthropology. New School for Social Research, New York, USA
Doctoral thesis topic: His research is concerned with insolvency as a concept that demands historical and affective assessments of self, in addition to economic and legal dimensions that give the fieldwork a site or events on which to focus.
Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of affiliation: July – December 2016 (ASS. 25/06/2016)

Letizia Bonanno

Academic institution:  Department of Social Anthropology, University of Manchester, UK
Doctoral thesis topic: “An Ethnography of Ethics and Crisis: the Greek Neoliberal Politics of Health in the in the aftermath of the 2008 Crisis”.
Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of affiliation: February – December 2016 (ASS. 10/02/2016)

John Ryan Karlin

Academic institution: Anthropology and Social Change, California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, USA
Doctoral thesis topic: “Exilic Spaces in the Contemporary World-System: Greece, Athens, Exarcheia”.
Supervisor at Panteion:  Assist. Prof. Ourania Astrinaki
Year of affiliation: February – December 2016 (ASS. 10/02/2016)

John Damien Karanicolas

Academic institution:  Anthropology and Development Studies, University of Adelaide, Australia
Doctoral thesis topic:  “Art and Crisis in Athens: Understanding the Social Impact of the Crisis through the Analysis of Networks, Symbols and Spaces which constitute Athens’ Art Scene”.
Supervisor at Panteion:  Assoc. Prof. Leonidas Ekonomou
Year of affiliation: Academic Year 2015-2016 (ASS. 29/10/2015)

Marios Hatziprokopiou

Academic institution:  Performance Studies, University of Aberystwyth, UK
Doctoral thesis topic:  “Performances of lament in the city of Athens”.
Supervisor at Panteion:  Assoc. Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of academic affiliation: 2015-2016 (ASS. 28/05/14)

Dionysia Manesi

Academic institution:  Department of Social Anthropology. Goldsmiths College University of London, UK
Doctoral thesis topic: “Being Greek, Going Queer: Queer selves and resistances in a time of crisis”.
Supervisor at Panteion:  Assoc. Prof. Athena Athanasiou
Year of academic affiliation: 2013-2014

Hasan Münüsoğlu

Academic institution:  Ankara University, Turkey
Doctoral thesis topic: An ethnographic study on the Ιmvrosian identity in the context of cultural memory

Supervisor at Panteion: Assoc. Prof. Giorgos Tsimouris
Year of academic affiliation: September 2013 - July 2014 (ASS. 19/06/2013)

Evy Vourlidis

Academic institution of studies: George Washington University, USA (on a Fulbright Scholarship)
Research topics:

1. The attitudes of students at Panteion University toward the economic crisis (2012-2013)

2. Making the Global Local in the Greek Financial Crisis (2013-2014)

Supervisor at Panteion: Prof. Dimitra Gefou-Madianou
Year of affiliation: 2012 - 2014