Curriculum Vitae

Education

2012
PhD in Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University College London (London, UK)

2005
MSc Social Anthropology. Department of Anthropology, University College London (London, UK)

2003
BA in History and Anthropology. Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology, University of Thessaly (Volos, Greece)

Languages

Greek (native)
English (advanced)
Bulgarian (advanced)
Italian (intermediate)

Research experience

2007-2009
Doctoral Research on transformations of labour in the context of postsocialist privatization. Fieldwork based on a factory in Sofia’s industrial zone and on archival research (Bulgaria)

2008-2010
Research on managers and owners of foreign production and financial services companies in Sofia (Bulgaria) (In collaboration with Dr Aliki Angelidou)

2005
Cross border fieldwork research on daily consumer-tourism between North Greece (Thessaloniki) and South Bulgaria (Sandanski)

2003-2004
Fieldwork and archival research on political refugees from the Greek civil war in Bulgaria (Bulgaria and Greece)

Teaching experience

Teaching assistant at the University College London, BA Anthropology courses (2010-2012) and at the Central European University MA Anthropology course (2009-2010)

Summer School teaching:
a. ‘Urban Anthropology’, organised by the Department of Cultural Studies, University St. Kliment Ohridski, Sandanski, Bulgaria (2011)
b. Summer school organised by the ‘Border Crossings Academic Network’; Course on ‘Economic Anthropology and Postsocialist Europe: From ‘transition’ to global transformations’, Konitsa, Greece (2010)

Fellowships-affiliations

2010
Marie Curie Social Anthropology fellowship, Central European University, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Budapest (Hungary)

2009
Marie Curie Social Anthropology fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology Halle (Germany)

2007-2009
Research fellowship under the Bulgarian Ministry of Education Research Scheme, Department of History, Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’ (Bulgaria)