I am a Professor at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where I hold the Chair of Social Anthropology and I co-direct the research lab on Infrastructures, Sustainability, and Commons. My research focus is on anthropology of infrastructures, collective action, and my regional expertise is in the Balkans, Albania, Greece and Eastern Europe.
Between 2023 and 2026, I am running a Stimulation grant for the project 'Infrastructure, Sustainability and Commons: A Global Studies perspective' , awarded from the Dutch Ministry of Education. Between 2017 and 2022 I ran the project infra-demos.net, a VIDI-Research Talent grant, awarded from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In 2012 I was awarded an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grant for the project crisis-scape.net, which run betwenn 2012 and 2014. I was also awarded twice the Sussex Teaching Excellence award (2010 and 2012).
My books include: An Anthropology of Crisis (2024), Skouries (2024), Infrastructural Harm (2023), On the Road (2022), Critical Times in Greece (2018), The Road (2017), Crisis-scapes (2014), Roads and Anthropology, (2014, 2012) Revolt and Crisis in Greece (2011). I have authored over 100 academic outputs, including journal articles, book chapters, and media op-eds since 2010, whilst I was also an associate and advisory editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
I have co-researched and have co-produced the documentaries, Colony (2022), Agrafa Untrodden (2020) Wasting the West (2019), Future Suspended (2014), the Politics of Knives (2013), and Landscapes of Emergency (2013) see also Athens Social Meltdown (2012).
I serve on the editorial and scientific boards of the journals City, Anthropology and Materialism and ANUAC Rivista.
Between 2023 and 2026, I am running a Stimulation grant for the project 'Infrastructure, Sustainability and Commons: A Global Studies perspective' , awarded from the Dutch Ministry of Education. Between 2017 and 2022 I ran the project infra-demos.net, a VIDI-Research Talent grant, awarded from the Dutch Research Council (NWO). In 2012 I was awarded an ESRC-Future Research Leaders grant for the project crisis-scape.net, which run betwenn 2012 and 2014. I was also awarded twice the Sussex Teaching Excellence award (2010 and 2012).
My books include: An Anthropology of Crisis (2024), Skouries (2024), Infrastructural Harm (2023), On the Road (2022), Critical Times in Greece (2018), The Road (2017), Crisis-scapes (2014), Roads and Anthropology, (2014, 2012) Revolt and Crisis in Greece (2011). I have authored over 100 academic outputs, including journal articles, book chapters, and media op-eds since 2010, whilst I was also an associate and advisory editor of the International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest.
I have co-researched and have co-produced the documentaries, Colony (2022), Agrafa Untrodden (2020) Wasting the West (2019), Future Suspended (2014), the Politics of Knives (2013), and Landscapes of Emergency (2013) see also Athens Social Meltdown (2012).
I serve on the editorial and scientific boards of the journals City, Anthropology and Materialism and ANUAC Rivista.
