The Department of Social Anthropology is actively involved in international research and academic networks. Faculty members of the Department hold longstanding affiliations with academic institutions, worldwide, and are involved in international research projects funded by the European Commission, the Mellon Foundation and other funding bodies. The Department’s research and academic network was further expanded by a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the School of Social Development and Public Policy, Fudan University, China.
Former students and research affiliates have built on the Department’s research network and have conducted fieldwork in countries such as Bulgaria, Serbia, Albania, Turkey, Russia, USA, Japan, Iran, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt, Syria and Palestine. Their research has been supported by scholarships from Greece, as well as important international funding organizations.
In this context, numerous conferences, workshops, seminars and public lectures are organized by the Department, on a regular basis, in which well-known social anthropologists, doing cutting-edge research, present their work.
The research and academic activities of the Department are further enhanced and supported by the recently established Anthropological Research Laboratory. The aim of the Laboratory is to promote the development of theoretical and methodological interdisciplinary exchanges, in order to explore the new and emerging tendencies of doing, writing and perceiving anthropology today.
Externally Funded Research with the Involvement of the Department’s Teaching/Research Staff
| Research Project | Funded By | Duration | Role in the project |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paysages Sonores et Mémoires de l’exil : Les émissions radiophoniques des réfugiés de la Guerre civile grecque PI: Aliki Angelidou (Panteion University) and Ass. Prof. Alexandra Baladina (Ionian University) |
Ecole Française d’Athènes | 2022-2026 | PI: Assistant Professor Aliki Angelidou |
| Domesticating Global Capitalism: Household, Co-ops and Power in a Post-memoranda Greek Province (DomEcon) | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK |
2021 (30 months) |
PI: Assistant Professor Aliki Angelidou |
| Affectscapes of Care: Gender-Based Violence and Resilience during the COVID-19 Pandemic | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK |
2021 (15 months) |
PI: Assistant Professor Eirini Avramopoulou |
Soundscapes of Trauma: Music, Sound and the Ethics of Witnessing (MUTE) PI: Anna Papaeti (University of Cyprus) |
ERC Consolidation Grant | 2021-2026 | Research Team Member: Professor Athena Athanasiou |
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Antigones: Bodies of Resistance in the Contemporary World |
Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK |
2020-2022 | Research Team Member: Professor Athena Athanasiou |
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Queer Politics / Public Memory |
Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung Greece | 2019-2020 | PI: Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Human Rights as a Part of Language Training to Prevent Honour Related Violence and Harmful Practices in the Communities (HR in Practice) Lead Organisation: Folkuniversitetet, Stiftelsen Kursverksamheten vid Stockholms Universitet, Sweden |
European Commission Just/2014 Action Grants |
2016-2018 | Coordinator/PI for Panteion University: Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Universities Supporting Victims of Sexual Violence (USVreact) Scientific Coordinator/PI: Pam Alldred (Brunel University London) |
European Commission (DAPHNE) |
2016-2017 | Partner: Panteion University Coordinator/PI for Panteion University: Associate Professor Athena Athanasiou PI and Senior Researcher: Alexandra Zavvou (Postdoctoral researcher) |
| Transitory Lives: An Anthropological Research of the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean PI: Elisabeth Kirtsoglou, Durham University (UK) |
ESRC & DFID | 2015-2017 | Co-investigator: Associate Professor Giorgos Tsimouris |
| Patterns of Resilience during Socioeconomic Crises among Households in Europe (RESCuE) Institut Fuer Arbeitsmarkt und Berufsforschung (IAB) der Bundesagentur Fuer Arbeit (Germany) |
EU FP7 | 2014-2017 | Research Team Member: Associate Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Framing Financial Crisis and Protest: North-West and South-East Europe PI: Suman Gupta, The Open University (UK) |
Leverhulme Trust International Network Grant | 2014-2017 | Research Team Member: Associate Professor Giorgos Tsimouris |
| Les Balkans par le bas. Renconfigurations locales et logiques individuelles depuis 1990: Albanie, Bulgarie, Grèce (BALKABAS) PI: Gilles de Rapper, IDEMEC/CNRS (France) |
Agence Nationale de la Recherche (France) | 2009-2012 | Research Team Member: Lecturer Aliki Angelidou |
| Kassariani: Life Histories about the Settlement of the Greek Refugees from Asia Minor, about the German Occupation and the Civil War Department of Social Anthropology (Panteion University) and Municipality of Kaisariani |
Municipality of Kaissariani | 2007-2010 | PI: Assistant Professor Giorgos Tsimouris Research Team Member: Lecturer Aliki Angelidou |
| New Forms of Citizenship and Cultural Identities: “Values, Equality and Difference in Liberal Democracies: Debates about Female Muslim Headscarves in Europe” (VEIL) Coordinated by Universitaet Wien, Austria |
EU FP6 | 2006-2009 | Coordinator/PI for Panteion University: Assistant Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Multiculturalism and Immigration in Greece: Ethnic Groups, Identities, Representations and Practices in the Era of Globalisation | EPEAEK – Pythagoras ΙΙ | 2005-2006 | Department of Social Anthropology PI: Professor Dimitra Gefou-Madianou |
Externally Funded Postdoctoral Reseach
| Postdoctoral Researcher | Research Title | Funded by | Duration | Supervisor |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Μyriam Lamrani Maria | Nations Reversed. National Imaginaries, Images of Migration in Greece and Mexico | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Fellowship |
2021-2024 | Assistant Professor Katerina Rozakou |
| Myrto Tsilibounidi Principal Investigator |
TransCity: Gender, Space, and Transitions in Athens | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK | 2020-2022 | Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Anna Carastathis Researcher |
TransCity: Gender, Space, and Transitions in Athens | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK | 2020-2022 | Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Christos Iliadis | From the “Refugee Crisis” to the Challenge of Inclusion: Theoretical and Political Tools for Accommodating Diversity | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ) | 16/12/2019 – 15/12/2021 | Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Pafsanias Karathanasis | “Kypreoi” (Greek Cypriots) and “Kalamarades” (mainland Greeks): An Ethnographic Exploration of the Contemporary Relations between Greece and Cyprus, and their Transformation as a Result of the “crisis” | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ) | 16/02/2020 – 15/02/2022 | Assistant Professor Katerina Rozakou |
| Theodora Vetta | “Energy Transition” as an Ecological Redistribution Regime: Labor, Land and Power in the Formation of Meta-lignite Greece | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ) | 01/02/2020 – 31/01/2022 | Assistant Professor Aliki Aggelidou |
| Theodosia Marinoudi | Subject of Language, Social Trauma and Sensory Experiences of Autistic People | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ) | 16/11/2019 – 15/11/2021 | Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Maria Paschalidou | Performative Aspects of Political Loss: Censorship that Kill, Memories that Haunt | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ) | 16/11/2019 – 15/11/2021 | Professor Athena Athanasiou |
| Irakleitos Sougioultzoglou | Semiotics of Nostalgia: Collective Memories and Social Practices of the Egyptiot Community in Greece | State Scholarship Foundation (ΙΚΥ) | 15/12/2019 – 14/12/2021 | Professor Gerasimos Makris |
| Anna Apostolidou Principal Investigator |
Ethnography and/as Hypertext Fiction: Representing Surrogate Motherhood | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK | 2018-2020 | Professor Athena Athanasiou & Professor Eirini Tountasaki |
| Ivi Daskalaki Researcher |
Ethnography and/as Hypertext Fiction: Representing Surrogate Motherhood | Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK | 2018-2020 | Professor Athena Athanasiou & Professor Eirini Tountasaki |
| Anna Papaeti | Music in Detention during the (Post) Civil-War Era in Greece: 1947-1957 (MUSDEWAR) | Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship |
2017-2019 | Professor Athena Athanasiou |
