Faculty

From 1992-98 she was a research officer/lecturer at the Refugee Studies Programme, and from 1994-98, also a lecturer at the Faculty of Geography and Anthropology, both at the University of Oxford. While at Oxford, she regularly taught graduate courses on identity and displacement, as well as on nationalism, regionalism and ethnicity in Eastern Europe. She also did research and published on issues of East-West migration, minority identity under, and after, state socialism, the emergence of “civil society” in Russia and, and the political economy of humanitarian assistance in Eastern Europe and Africa. In September 1998, she joined the faculty of the University of Macedonia as associate professor in the Department of Balkan, Slavonic and Oriental Studies, where she teaches regularly courses on social science methodology, migration and asylum policies, peoples and history of the former USSR, and ethnographies of the socialist and post-socialist world. In 2007 she was elected Senior Research Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of East London. As an anthropologist she has conducted, since 1992, extensive field research in the former Soviet Union (Central Asia, Caucasus and Russia) regarding the migration and repatriation of minorities in the post-soviet area, and in refugee camps in Africa and the Middle East, focusing on the protection of human rights and the humanitarian assistance. Her main academic interests are: Refugees, Asylum and Social Exclusion Policies, Humanitarian Assistance and Human Rights Protection, Nationalisms and social transformations in post-socialist Eastern Europe, Diasporas and Repatriations, Social Science Methodologies.

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He graduated from the University of Athens, School of Economics in 1981 and he was awarded a Ph.D. from the University of Manchester, U.K. in 1987. The title of his doctoral dissertation is “Economic Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Greek Manufacturing, 1963 – 1981”. He currently serves as Professor at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia, Greece while he has served as lecturer at the Department of International and European Economic and Political Studies of the same University and at the Department of Economics of the University of Crete, Greece. His academic interests are in the field of International Economics, Foreign Direct Investment in particular, Transition Economics, and the analysis of emerging markets in Eastern and SE Europe. He has published extensively in international journals and participated in international conferences presenting papers.

Harry Papapanagos is Professor of Economics and Head of the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia. He is visiting professor in the Hellenic International University and in the Supreme Joint War College. He is a member of the scientific staff of the Hellenic Open University, founding member and member of the advisory board of the European Economics & Finance Society and scientific coordinator in research projects financed by the European Union. He is publishing in international refereed journals and his articles are presented in international conferences and scientific networks. He served as Vice Rector of the University of Macedonia, Head of the Department of Balkan, Slavic & Oriental Studies and of the Department of Management and Technology of the University of Macedonia. He was a visiting professor in the Command and General Staff College (Department of Psychological Operations) and in the Police Academy. He was advisor of the British House of Lords and economic advisor of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). He served as a senior lecturer at the University of Kent in England, as lecturer at Queen’s University of Belfast in Northern Ireland and as research officer in the BHPS - ESRC research center of the University of Essex in England.

He graduated from the Law School of the Democritus University of Thrace (grade “distinction”). LL.M. (merit) London School of Economics and Political Science. His Ph.D is entitled “The European Community as an Idiosyncratic Αctor in International Trade: The Evidence and Lessons of GATT Litigation”, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London. He is specialized in European Union Law and International Economic Law as well as Law of International Transactions.

She is Professor of Social Anthropology (Political and Economic Anthropology of SE Europe). She studied Anthropology at the École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris with a scholarship provided by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation. From 1992 to 2003 she was a staff member at the Democritus University of Thrace. She cooperated in projects of the Anthropology Department at Harvard University (1999 – 2000) and the Laboratoire d’ Anthropologie Sociale of the E.H.E.S.S. and the C.N.R.S at the College de France (1995-1996). Her research interests focus on the practices and conceptualizations of the ‘political’ in the public and private sphere. She is focusing on multiple economic and political ‘transition processes’ as well as identity politics in late modernity. She is currently working on state cultures, citizenship, gender and social movements. She conducted ethnographic fieldwork in Greece, the Balkans and the Middle East (Sultanate of Oman) and she produced a number of ethnographic documentaries. Her current fieldwork abroad is taking place in Istanbul.

Nikos Marantzidis is professor of Political Science in the department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies at the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki. He is also elected visiting professor at the Department of International Studies at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) and the University of Kerala (India). His academic interests are focused on comparative politics, European party politics in the 20th century, and especially communist parties and European socialist and communist movements. He is also interested in violent conflicts and civil wars.

Nikolaos Zaikos is Associate Professor of International Law, Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece
Studies/ Education:
Ph.D. in International Law (with honours, 1997, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Academy of International Law (The Hague, The Netherlands/ 1993)
Postgraduate Diploma (with honours, 1991, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
European Institute (Erasmus Intensive Program; Ghent, Belgium/ 1990)
LL.B. Degree (1989, Department of Law, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Research interests: History and theory of international law; Holocaust and Genocide studies; Law of armed conflict; International sports relations: Institutions, history, policies;

Selection of academic activities:
- Visiting Professor, Faculty of Law, University Tor Vergata (Rome, Italy/ 2011);
- Recipient of the Alberto Nar Scholarship (Jewish Community of Thessaloniki, 2011)
Lectures: Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris; Technische Universität Berlin; Jewish Museum Berlin
Other conferences and/or research: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Finland, Germany, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Norway, Slovakia; The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey.

Dr. Yorgos Christidis is an Associate Professor of Comparative Politics in the Balkans at the Department of Balkan, Slavonic and Oriental Studies of the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. He is also a Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Security Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of History, University of Sofia “Sv. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria.

His research interests focus on political parties and minority issues, foreign policy and bilateral relations in Southeastern Europe. Among his latest publications: “Greek–Bulgarian relations: Current state, problems and prospects”, together with I. Armakolas and P. Pashalidis, ELIAMEP Research Paper, 2017; Η σερβική πολιτική στο Κόσοβο (Ιούνιος 1999 – 2016 (Serbian policy on Kosovo. June 1999 – 2016), Thessaloniki, 2017; “A new Balkan rapprochement. Skopje accepts Sofia’s positions allowing for bilateral relations to move ahead”, ELIAMEP Briefing Notes 55/2017, November 2017; “Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia. The Experience of Cooperation in the Fields of EU-Funded Cross-border Projects and Higher Education and What Does it Mean for the Future”, together with P. Pashalidis, Research Report, ΕΛΙΑΜΕΠ, December 2017; «Από τη Γιουγκοσλαβία στη Σερβία 1918-2008» (From Yugoslavia to Serbia 1918-2008), «Πολεμικές Συρράξεις στην Πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβία (1991-1995, 1999) (Military conflicts in ex-Yugoslavia, 1991-1995, 1999) in Βαλκάνια, Η Μεγάλη Τρικυμία. Η Νοτιοανατολική Ευρώπη του Χθες και του Σήμερα, μια αναδρομή, Athens, May 2018, pp. 61-104; “From Bitter Foes to Partners and Allies: Remembering the Greek-Bulgarian Reconciliation”, in “Political Trends & Dynamics. Bilateral Disputes in Southeastern Europe”, Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, August/September 2018.