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 ProjectFunded ByDurationRole in the project
Birthing Others, raising citizens? Maternity care, reproductive justice, and intersectional citizenship among the Athens Roma Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK
2023-2025

PI: Cynthia Malakasis

Academic Advisor: Athena Athanasiou

European Commission 2022-2024 PI: Assistant Professor Dimitra Kofti
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

Antigones: Bodies of Resistance in the Contemporary World
PI: Elena Tzelepi (University of Thessaly)

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation
H.F.R.I/ ELIDEK
2020-2022 Research Team Member:
Professor Athena Athanasiou

Queer Politics / Public Memory
PIs: Athena Athanasiou (Panteion University) & Dimitris Papanikolaou (University of Oxford)

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 ResearcherResearch TitleFunded byDurationSupervisor
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