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