ACADEMIC TRAINING
2014 PhD in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University
2003 M.A. in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University
1999 B.A. in History and Archaeology, Aristotle University
FIELD EXPERIENCE
2008-2013 fieldwork, Brooklyn, NY
2006-7
fieldwork, Thessaloniki, Greece
2002 3-month follow-up fieldwork, Thessaloniki Greece
2001 3-month fieldwork, Thessaloniki, Greece
1999 IZ’ Ephorate of Prehistoric, Byzantine and Classical Antiquities;
Paleolithic and Neolithic ceramics analysis, Greece.
1998 IZ’ Ephorate of Prehistoric, Byzantine and Classical Antiquities, three
(3) excavations of prehistoric settlements, analysis of ceramic
residues in prehistoric sites, archival research, Greece.
1997 Research assistant; description and cataloguing ceramic residues,
Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Anthropological Theory
Cultural Analysis
Economic Anthropology
Neoliberalism
Nationalism and Transnationalism
Historical Consciousness
Memory
Sensory Anthropology
PUBLICATIONS
Articles in Refereed Journals:
2013 “Paying the Check, Eating the Money: Food-Based Challenges to
Neoliberalism in Greece.” Food, Culture and Society Special Invited
Focus: Food and Contemporary Protest Movements (Vol. 16, No. 3).
2009 “Vefa or Mamalakis; cooking up nostalgia in modern Greece.”
Southern European Society and Politics, coauthored with David
Sutton (Vol.14, No.2).
Book Chapters:
2008 “Monetary Tastes: Symbolism and Memory in the Transition to the
Euro” (with David
Sutton). Ethnologia: Anthropology and Symbolism in Greece. Edited
by E. Alexakis et al. pp. 97-123. Athens: Greek Ethnology Society (in
Greek).
Book Reviews
2010 Review. “Dangerous Citizens: The Greek Left and the Terror of the
State”, by Neni Panourgia, in South European Society & Politics (Vol.
15, No.2)
2009 Review. “Blood and Oranges; Immigrant labor and European markets
in rural Greece”, by Christopher Lawrence, in South European Society
& Politics (Vol. 13, No 4).
2008 Review. “The Nation and Its Ruins: Antiquity, Archaeology, and
National Imagination in Greece”, by Yannis Hamilakis, in South
European Society & Politics (Vol. 13, No. 2).
Other Publications
2012 “Food and the Greek Crisis (Co-authored with David Sutton).” In
Anthropology News, Section News, 53:3, p. 33 (April).
2012 “Yoghurt Projectiles: Food, protest and identity in Greece (Coauthored with David Sutton).” In Anthropology News, Section News,
53:1, p.25 (March).
2011 “Strained Yogurt and People in Greece.” In foodanthro.com blog of the
Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (October).
2011 “Bread, Milk, and the Greek Parliamentary Record.” In foodanthro.com
blog of the Society for Anthropology of Food and Nutrition (October).
PROFESSIONAL PRESENTATIONS
2013 “The Concealed and the Revealed.” Paper presented at the annual American
Anthropological Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 20. (C0authored with David Sutton).
2013 “Debt and Responsibility in the Greek Crisis.” Paper presented at American
Ethnological Society Meetings, Chicago, IL, April 13. (Co-authored with David
Sutton).
2012 “Who ate the money: food challenges to Neoliberalism in Greece.” Paper
presented at the annual conference of the Association for the Study of Food
and Society in New York City, NY.
2012 “Schadenfreude, anxiety, and representation in the era of the Greek debt
Crisis in a Greek diasporic Community.” Paper presented at the John D.
Calandra Italian American Institute, New York City, NY.
2011 “Shopping and Eating in Times of Financial Crisis.” Paper presented at the
Hoosier Area Food and Sustainability Symposium, Bloomington, IN
November 5 (Coauthored with David Sutton).
2003 ““This Money doesn’t taste good; it tastes like plastic”. Invited Paper on
identity presented at the
Central States Anthropology Conference in Louisville, KY.
2002 “Monetary Mnemonics; refashioning identity through the consumption of
new money”. Invited
paper on memory, presented at the Central States Anthropology Conference
in East Lancing MI.
2002 “The Euro: memory, identity and new money”. Invited poster presentation on
money and memory,
presented at the Society for Economic Anthropology Conference, in Toronto,
Canada.
WORK IN PROGRESS
2009- Ongoing research on Neoliberalism, historical consciousness and
moral discourses in Greece.
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES
2013Modern Greek Studies Association, Member
2001-3
Society for Economic Anthropology, Member