Aglaia Chatjouli teaches at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean. She has a cross-disciplinary academic background in Social Anthropology, Human & Molecular Biology. He academic focus is on the Anthropology of Health while her primary research interests involve the relationship between biology and anthropology, nature and culture, processes of biologization, geneticization, medicalization and biosociality, reproduction, parenthood and ageing, normalization discourses and practices. In addition, she is interested in issues of structural violence and wellbeing, human rights and reproductive rights, health inequalities, processes of the naturalization of (ill) health. Through her research experience and various work responsibilities she has been exposed to different disciplines and inter-disciplinary working environments. She has worked with authorities and lay populations. She is particularly knowledgeable of Greek ethnography and has carried out extensive research on thalassemia and on infertility and new reproductive technologies, as well as on issues regarding refugee mental health and cultural mediation. She is a board member of the Association of Social Anthropologists Greece (SKAE).
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Venetia Kantsa is Professor in the Department of Social Anthropology and History, School of Social Sciences, University of the Aegean, Director of the Laboratory of Family and Kinship Studies, and Director of the MA Program Social and Historical Anthropology at the same Department. Her research interests focus on anthropology of kinship and family, anthropology of gender and sexuality, queer theory, anthropology of science, Greek ethnography and anthropology of the Mediterranean. During the last years her research focuses on assisted reproduction, shifting conceptualizations of kinship and science, the distribution of authoritative knowledge in the context of emerging social and technological transformations, and interrelations among medical technology, law and religion. She was member of the international scientific network EastBordNet Cost Action (2008-2012), participated as national stakeholder into the FP7 research program Families and Societies (20013-2018), participates as expert evaluator on European FP7 and Horizon research programs, and is member of the ReproSoc advisory board at the University of Cambridge. She has taught as visiting scholar at the University of Barcelona, American University of Beirut and University of Cyprus, and has presented her work as invited lecturer in research centres and universities in Greece and abroad.
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Eirini Papadaki is an ERC Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh. Her research interests focus on anthropology of kinship and family, anthropology of state, care, marriage, adoption and Greek ethnography. During the last years she is working on issues of marriage, family and intimate relations in Greece (ERC project). Previously, she was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie PostDoc researcher (co-funded with UoBr) at the University of Bremen.
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Aspa Chalkidou is a Social Anthropologist and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the BIO-AGE project. Their research interests focus on anthropology of gender and sexuality, anthropology of kinship and family, queer theory, sexuality and institutionalization, digital methods for Social Science, and Greek ethnography. Over the last decade they have participated in several EU funded projects as a postdoc and field researcher, undertaking research on sexual and gender politics, new reproductive technologies and kinship, and migration policies along with issues of institutional injustice. Previously, Aspa was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Post-doctoral fellow (co-funded with IAS) at the University of Warwick and a teaching fellow at the department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
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Falia Varelaki is a PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, funded by Ypatia scholarships, at the Department of Social Anthropology & History at the University of the Aegean. Her research, conducted in Athens between 2016 and 2018, focuses on biopolitics of breast cancer in Greece, and examines how experience of
breast cancer is being constructed through state’s politics and medical discourse. Her thesis is concerned with issues such as practices of care, health inequalities and kinship. Other research interests include methodology,kinship, gender, body, memory, social space and place, identity politics, care, death and health/illness. She has participated in several conferences and seminars in Greece and Europe and has published on issues of identities, memory, space and health inequalities. She is a member of the Lab of Family and Kinship Studies at the University of the Aegean and as staff member of the Border Crossings Network, she participates in the annual “Konitsa International Summer School in Anthropology, Ethnography and Comparative Folklore of the Balkans”, as fieldwork supervisor. |
Panos Tigkas is a PhD student in Social Anthropology at University of the Aegean. His research project is a feminist-inspired, ethnographic exploration of male embodied subjectivities in modern Greece and the focus is on exploring how lived experiences of Covid-19 pandemic intersects with gender, space, mobility and practices of care. He holds a BA in Psychology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and an MA in Gender Studies and Social Anthropology at University of the Aegean. During his undergraduate and postgraduate studies, he worked in two research projects on same-sex parenthood and assisted reproductive technologies as well as on LGBTQ activism and citizenship in the context of the “Greek Crisis”.
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Giorgos Kostakiotis holds a PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of the Aegean, under a Herakleitos II, co-funded by European Social Fund (ERC) & National Resourses Fund (EPEAEK II) the and National Resources PhD scholarship. His research interests focus on anthropology of care and eldercare, anthropology of aging, family relations, and anthropology of the welfare state and has contributed to the above subjects with several publications in English and in Greek.
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Silas Michalakas is a freelance Visual Anthropologist and Documentary Filmmaker. He is also affiliated with the Anthropological Society of Athens-Ethnofest, mainly known for organising the Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, being the Head of Production and Educational Activities, and with the Centre of New Media & Feminist Public Practices, University of Thessaly, as a member of the research team. His interests focus in the use of audio-visual media in anthropological research and especially in the areas of intangible cultural heritage and of community identities in Greece.
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Athena McLean is Professor of Anthropology, the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan University. Dr. McLean is an anthropologist of aging and medicine. She teaches
anthropological theory, medical anthropology, anthropology of old age and international law. Her academic interests include ethnography, knowledge production, care, the ethical and the political economy of health and illness. She has published works on aging, long term care of persons with dementia and dementia care as a moral enterprise, nursing homes, and other long-term forms of care for the elderly. |