George Tsimouris studied Political Science at Panteion University 1975-1980, Sociology at the University of Essex, UK (M.A. 1994), and Social Anthropology at the University of Sussex, UK (PhD. 1998). For his doctoral thesis, he conducted research on the refugee-origin residents of Agios Dimitrios on Lemnos. He has published in Greek and international scientific journals on issues related to refugees, immigrants, intercultural education, borders, fascism and sailors. His research, which concerns the displacement of the Greek community of Imvros, was published in the book: “Imvrioi: Fugitives from our land, hostages in our homeland” (in Greek).

He is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at Panteion University, and has served as President of the same Department and member of the Panteion Senate (2012-14). He served as Vice President for Academic Affairs and International Relations of the Hellenic Open University (2017-18). He has participated in many scientific committees and is the supervisor of many doctoral theses. His research on the life of sailors on seagoing ships was published in the book, “We Sailors, Barked and Disembarked” (in Greek). He participated in international research projects such as, “Framing Financial Crisis and Protest: North-West and South-East Europe”, “Transitory Lives An Anthropological Study of the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean” funded by the ESRC (UK). He has been an evaluator at the ERC, the Hellenic Research Foundation and the Institute of International Relations. He has been invited as a reviewer for books and articles in scientific journals such as, The American Anthropologist, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Law and Society, Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Anthropological Forum: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Comparative Sociology, Current Anthropology, Contemporary Issues.

Alexandra Balandina is an Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Ionian University, Greece. She graduated from the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Athens and earned both her MMus and PhD in Ethnomusicology from the Music Department at Goldsmiths, University of London.  She conducted long-term ethnographic fieldwork in Tehran, Iran, exploring the culture of tombak playing since the 1960s. As part of her research, she studied the tombak (a goblet-shaped drum) in Iran with the renowned Bahman Rajabi, as well as with several tombak players of the younger generation. Her primary research interests include performance theory and practice, musical creativity, cultural organology, music ethnography, embodiment in performance and research, and the intersections of music and politics. She is deeply passionate about performance—not only as a means of artistic expression but also as a research tool and a subject of ethnomusicological study. Her engagement with performance is both scholarly and personal. She had the privilege of performing for several years with her teacher, Ross Daly, focusing on Middle Eastern music traditions and various frame drums (daf, bendir/dayre). Today, she is a member of the Intercultural Orchestra at the National Opera House. Born in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she speaks Russian, Farsi, Greek, Macedonian, and Serbian.

Natalia Koutsougera is a social anthropologist (Laboratory Teaching Staff, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University) who works at the intersection of the anthropology of youth cultures, the anthropology of entertainment, the anthropology of music and dance, popular culture and gender, visual anthropology and hip-hop studies. She uses interdisciplinary approaches as well as multimodal methodologies inspired by both anthropology, cultural and media studies. She is the author of many articles and chapters in international and domestic scientific journals and volumes regarding hip-hop, gender studies, anthropology and youth cultures, while for the last seventeen years she has been working as a critic and columnist for the contemporary dance and performance portal dancetheater.gr. She has directed and produced three ethnographic documentaries: “Born to Break” (2011), “The Girls Are Here” (2015) and “An Element of Hope” (2025) on the topics of hip-hop, urban dance styles, spiritualities in hip-hop, hip-hop femininities, street cultures and gender. In 2024 she published her monograph “Bred in the Western Suburbs: Dance, Music and Youth Cultures in Ellinadiko” which explores “laiko” (popular) and trap cultures in nightclubs of Western Attica from the 1990s to the present. Natalia has also been a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre of Hellenic Studies in Greece (Harvard University) and is also the Scientific Officer of the Erasmus Program (2025-2028) UFemTP: A Mobilizing Training and Multimodal Platform (Panteion University).

 Georgia Sarikoudi is a postdoctoral researcher in Social Anthropology at the Department of History-Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, on the topic: “The second generation of Albanian and Chinese immigrants: an anthropological approach”  funded by IKY. At the same time, she also works as a Greek language teacher in a secondary school. Her main research interests are refugee/immigrant studies, refugees of the Greek Civil War, socialism/ post-socialism, social memory and education. She has taught anthropological courses at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Panteion University and Democritus University of Thrace and she has worked on research projects (national and international). Currently, she has participated in two research projects, “Seeking a new language: Narratives on home, (forced) migration and identity of newcomer Ukrainian youth to European cities” (Epicur Mobility Program) and “Soundscapes and Memories of the Beyond: The Radio Broadcasts of Refugees of the Greek Civil War” (French School of Athens). She has participated in numerous conferences and has published articles in collective volumes, Greek and international journals.

 Pantelis Promponas is a journalist and PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. He studied History and Ethnology at the Democritus University of Thrace and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly. He is finishing his PhD thesis on “Unclaimed Bodies: Politics of Managing Death on the Border of Europe”, as a fellow of the State Scholarships Foundation. His research interests concern the politics of life and death, the materiality of the dead body, the ethnography of the state, borders and borderlands, and the technologies of producing rationalities. He is a member of the organizing team of the Pelion Summer Lab for Cultural Theory and Experimental Humanities and co-founder of Non Profit Cosmopolitik: Network for Social Research and Public Intervention. From 2021 to 2024, was appointed by the Senate of the University of Thessaly as a member of the first Committee on Gender Equality and Combating Discrimination. He is a founding member of the Association of Social Anthropologists of Greece (SKAE).

Falia Varelaki is an anthropologist with a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of the Aegean in Greece. Her doctoral research focuses on the analysis of cancer culture through the study of the biopolitics of cancer, the field of genomics, kinship, and forms of care. She has conducted long-term hospital ethnography, examining the interactions between healthcare professionals and patients to understand the cultural dynamics and social determinants that shape care provision and patient outcomes. She holds a Master’s degree in Social and Historical Anthropology and a Master’s degree in Bioethics. She is a research fellow at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, working on  the research program PregDaT (ERC). Her research interests and publications focus on issues related to health and illness, cancer, the body, research ethics and research methodology.

Mimina Pateraki teaches Sociology & Anthropology of the Body & Gender at the Hellenic Open University Postgraduate Program Sports Studies: Sociology, History, Anthropology and she works at the Municipality of Korydallos (Planning Department). She has also taught Anthropology of Performance at the University of Thessaly (HASA). She holds a PhD in Dance Anthropology from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (SEFAA). Her research interests focus on performances in public culture (dance, cinema, media) in contemporary urban environments (Greece, Balkans, Mediterranean) as well as citizens’ rhetoric about national policies regarding the circular economy. Additionally, she engages with the Anthropology of Sports and the Political Economy of Disasters.

Mimina Pateraki teaches Sociology & Anthropology of the Body & Gender at the Hellenic Open University Postgraduate Program Sports Studies: Sociology, History, Anthropology and she works at the Municipality of Korydallos (Planning Department). She has also taught Anthropology of Performance at the University of Thessaly (HASA). She holds a PhD in Dance Anthropology from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (SEFAA). Her research interests focus on performances in public culture (dance, cinema, media) in contemporary urban environments (Greece, Balkans, Mediterranean) as well as citizens’ rhetoric about national policies regarding the circular economy. Additionally, she engages with the Anthropology of Sports and the Political Economy of Disasters.

Eleni Sideri studied Social Anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies-University of London (Ph.D. and Masters) where she also taught. Since 2019, she has been working as an assistant professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia. She conducted research in Georgia and Abkhazia as well as Bosnia and Herzegovina in the fields of transnational migration and diaspora, networks and cinematic narrative. She has published in international journals and collective volumes. She has co-edited a collective volume and written a monograph entitled "Coproducing Europe: An ethnography of film-markets, creativity and identity" (Berghahn 2023)

Ioannis Kyriakakis was born in Athens. He studied Political Science in Athens and Social Anthropology in London (UCL). He conducted fieldwork in England, Ghana and Athens. He has taught qualitative research methods, cultural economy, social theory and economic anthropology. He is concerned with religion/cosmology, global inequalities and the anthropology of capitalism. In July 2020 his monograph was published with the title The Witchcraft of Capitalism: How Academic Knowledge supports the Global Class-System. From the ethnography of Christianity in West Africa to the Anthropology of Contemporary World.

Falia Varelaki is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean and a scholarship holder of the “YPATIA” programme.  Her research interests and publications concern issues of Health and Illness, Body and Kinship. She holds a degree in History and Ethnology from the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace (Ethnology major) and a Master’s degree from the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the Aegean University. Her PhD research focuses on the analysis of cancer culture by studying the biopolitics of cancer, the field of genomics, kinship and forms of care.

Pafsanias Karathanasis studied social anthropology at an undergraduate level at Panteion University of Athens, he finished his master’s studies in Material and Visual Culture at the University College London and he did his Ph.D. in the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean. His main research interests include anthropology of space and place, visual culture, and political anthropology. Between 2017-2018 he was the coordinator of the Observatory of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean, and between 2017 and 2022 he was in the Academic Coordinator of the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival-Ethnofest. From 2020 to 2022 he was a postdoctoral researcher at Panteio University and from 2021 to 2023 participated as a postdoctoral researcher in the programme HUMANcITY of the University of the Aegean [https://220.academia.edu/PafsaniasK].

Voula Zotali is a PhD candidate in Social Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, a quality consultant and a chemistry teacher. Her research interests evolve around science and technology, gender & sexuality, alternative states of consciousness and subversive methodologies for knowledge creation. She studied Social Anthropology at Panteion University (BA) and Chemical Engineering (BA) and Material Science & Engineering (MSc) at National Technical University of Athens. Her doctoral research explores indigenous initiatives that appropriate the production/design of digital technologies creating new cosmotechnologies. She aspires to manifest her values through her life and work: originality, unity, humor, equality and learning.

Panas Karampampas (https://ehess.academia.edu/Karampampas) is a social anthropologist at Durham University (UK), while in the past he has worked at the Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, the University of Peloponnese, the University of Thessaly and at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales – EHESS, Paris. Previously he was a guest lecturer in the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St. Andrews, where he also completed his PhD and a visiting scholar at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the National Research University – Higher School of Economics (HSE University), Moscow. He is a co-convenor of the EASA Mediterraneanist Network (MedNet) and Europeanist network (EuroNet). He currently works on Intangible Cultural Heritage policies and global governance. His doctoral research focused on the goth scene, digital anthropology, dance, cosmopolitanism and globalisation. His work has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, Teaching Anthropology, the International Journal of Heritage Studies and the Journal of Youth Studies. He has also co-edited the Collaborative Intimacies: Anthropologies of Sound and Movement (Berghahn, February 2017), and edited the Intangible Cultural Heritage in times of economic “crisis”: Marketisation and Resilience (The Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports Press, 2023). Panas has also completed the UNESCO “Training of Trainers for Intangible Cultural Heritage” and became a member of the network of Facilitators who can provide support and training at international level and local level https://ich.unesco.org/en/trainer/karampampas-panas-03511

Katerina Rozakou studied anthropology at the University of the Aegean (BA and PhD) and University College London (MA). She has worked in research projects in Greece and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Princeton and the University of Amsterdam, where she also taught. Since 2019 she is an assistant professor at Panteion University, Department of Social Anthropology. She has conducted fieldwork in Greece in the fields of humanitarianism, solidarity, migration, and bureaucracy. Her work has been published in academic journals and collective volumes. She has co-edited a collective volume and she has authored an ethnographic monograph on voluntary work with refugees (in Greek; Alexandreia 2018).

Katerina Rozakou studied anthropology at the University of the Aegean (BA and PhD) and University College London (MA). She has worked in research projects in Greece and as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Princeton and the University of Amsterdam, where she also taught. Since 2019 she is an assistant professor at Panteion University, Department of Social Anthropology. She has conducted fieldwork in Greece in the fields of humanitarianism, solidarity, migration, and bureaucracy. Her work has been published in academic journals and collective volumes. She has co-edited a collective volume and she has authored an ethnographic monograph on voluntary work with refugees (in Greek; Alexandreia 2018).

Lambrini Styliou studied anthropology at the University of Thessaly (BA and PhD) and at the Universiteit van Amsterdam (MA in Migration and Ethnic Studies). She has conducted fieldwork in Greece and Albania, participated in various research projects in the field of migration and has published her work in collective volumes. She has also worked in public bodies and services in the fields of intangible cultural heritage, gender equality policies and international protection. Since 2019 she has been working in the public sector and in the field of migration policy.

Raia Lignou has a first BSc degree in the field of health sciences, however her quests about social reality were the ones that drove her to follow a second degree in the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University (2015-2019). The next academic year (2019-2020) she attended the “Teacher Education Program” offered by the School of Pedagogical and Technological Education (ASPETE). Currently, she is a postgraduate student in “Education and Human Rights” at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. Her research interests include topics related with disability, gender, education and human rights.

Ioannis Kyriakakis was born in Athens. He studied Political Science in Athens and Social Anthropology in London (UCL). He conducted fieldwork in England, Ghana and Athens. He has taught qualitative research methods, cultural economy, social theory and economic anthropology. He is concerned with religion/cosmology, global inequalities and the anthropology of capitalism. In July 2020 his monograph was published with the title The Witchcraft of Capitalism: How Academic Knowledge supports the Global Class-System. From the ethnography of Christianity in West Africa to the Anthropology of Contemporary World.

Aglaia Chatjouli is Assistant Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean since 2019. She studied anthropology at the University of the Aegean (PhD), human biology at Oxford University (MSc) and molecular-cell biology at King’s College London (BSc). Her main research interests include the interplay between anthropology and biology, the normative potential of (bio)difference, the nature-culture divide, the construction of health and illness. She has participated in international and interdisciplinary research projects and has published her work in collective volumes and academic journals. Her works (indicative): “Thalassaemic lives. Biological difference, normality, biosociality”, [in Greek] (Patakis, 2012), “Out of body, Out of home. Assisted Reproduction, Gender and Family in Greece (με Ivi Daskalaki, Venetia Kantsa) ((In)FERCIT & Alexandria Pupl., 2015).

Pafsanias Karathanasis studied social anthropology at an undergraduate level at Panteion University of Athens, he finished his master’s studies in Material and Visual Culture at the University College London and he did his Ph.D. in the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean. His main research interests include anthropology of space and place, visual culture, and political anthropology, and he is specifically interested in urban cultures, political and cultural grassroots initiatives in urban settings, and in contested landscapes in cities. Between 2017-2018 he was the coordinator of the Observatory of the Refugee and Migration Crisis in the Aegean, a Univ. of the Aegean project and since 2017 he is in the organizing team of the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival-Ethnofest as the Academic Coordinator. Currently, he is a postdoctoral researcher at Panteio University and a collaborator of the research programme HUMANcITY of the University of the Aegean.

Savvas Triantafyllidis (PhD in Social Anthropology) holds a Bachelor’s Degree from the Department of History and Ethnology of Democritus University of Thrace (Ethnology discipline). He has obtained a Master’s and a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He has been funded by the “Onassis Foundation” for the completion of his doctoral studies. His research interests deal with Kinship, Gender, and the Greek ethnography. He has presented his work in various workshops and conferences in Greece and abroad.

Eleftheria Deltsou is associate professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of History, Archeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly, Greece. She holds a BA in English Language and Literature and a MA in Oral History / Folklore from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and a MA and a PhD in Social Anthropology (1995) from Indiana University. Her academic interests cover areas of rural and urban anthropology, such as the politics of culture, urban activism, tourism, development, consumption, the European Union, modernity and neoliberalism, nationalism, the production of space, perceptions of the past.

Aliki Angelidou (alangel@panteion.gr) is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology at Panteion University, Athens. She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, exploring socio-economic transformations in postsocialist rural Bulgaria. She has also published on migrants’ mobility from East European countries to Greece and on the economic elites’ mobility in the Balkans. Currently, she carries out research on household and circular economy in memoranda and post-memoranda Greece. She is external partner of the Institut d’ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative (IDEMEC/CNRS), Aix-en-Provence and Local Partner-Fellow of the Institut Convergences Migrations (IC Migrations/CNRS), Paris. Her academic interests include economic anthropology, global economic history, anthropology of Eastern Europe and the Balkans, socialism and postsocialism, migration, borders and transnationalism, the comparative history of anthropology in Southeast Europe as well as applied/public anthropology.

Mimina Pateraki teaches Sociology & Anthropology of the Body & Gender at the Hellenic Open University Postgraduate Program Sports Studies: Sociology, History, Anthropology and she works at the Municipality of Korydallos (Planning Department). She has also taught Anthropology of Performance at the University of Thessaly (HASA). She holds a PhD in Dance Anthropology from the National & Kapodistrian University of Athens (SEFAA). Her research interests focus on performances in public culture (dance, cinema, media) in contemporary urban environments (Greece, Balkans, Mediterranean) as well as citizens’ rhetoric about national policies regarding the circular economy. Additionally, she engages with the Anthropology of Sports and the Political Economy of Disasters.

Katerina Rozakou, President
Raia Lignou, Vice President
Venetia Kantsa, Treasurer
Ioannis Kyriakakis, Secretary
Eleftheria Delsou, Board Member
Panas Karampampas, Board Member
Lambrini Styliou, Board Member
Savvas Triantafyllidis, Alternate Member