2014 Phd in Anthropology, Southern Illinois University

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 (Co- authored 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. (C0- authored 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 2013- Modern Greek Studies Association, Member 2001-3 Society for Economic Anthropology, Member