Eirini
Papadaki
Assistant Professor

Contact

School of History and Archaeology

2310-997287

Short CV Presentation

Erini Papadaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, the University of the Aegean and the University of Edinburgh. Her research concerns the politics of adoption, parenthood, ageing, emotion and time in marriage in contemporary Greece. Her research interests include the anthropology of kinship, gender, sexuality, state ethnography, intimacy and care. Her articles have been published in Greek and international journals and edited volumes. She has co-edited the volume Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense, (with Janet Carsten,Hsiao-Chiao Chiu,Siobhan Magee, Koreen Reece 2021, UCL Press) and is the author of the book Politics of Kinship. Adoption in modern Greece (2021, Alexandria Press).

Short CV Presentation

Erini Papadaki is Assistant Professor at the Department of History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. She has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Bremen, the University of the Aegean and the University of Edinburgh. Her research concerns the politics of adoption, parenthood, ageing, emotion and time in marriage in contemporary Greece. Her research interests include the anthropology of kinship, gender, sexuality, state ethnography, intimacy and care. Her articles have been published in Greek and international journals and edited volumes. She has co-edited the volume Marriage in Past, Present and Future Tense, (with Janet Carsten,Hsiao-Chiao Chiu,Siobhan Magee, Koreen Reece 2021, UCL Press) and is the author of the book Politics of Kinship. Adoption in modern Greece (2021, Alexandria Press).

Contact

School of History and Archaeology

2310-997287

Studies

2015

University of the Aegean

Social Anthropology and History

PhD

Publications

2021

Politics of kinship. Adoption in contemporary Greece

Books

2021

Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense. London: UCL Press.

co-edited with J. Carsten, HC, Chiu, S. Magee and K. Reece

2020

'Becoming mothers: narrating adoption and making kinship in Greece’. Social Anthropology, 28(1): 153-167.

2019

‘Unwed pregnancy and adoption in post-war Greece (1950-1983)’. Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 38(2): 271-293.

2017

'Undoing kinship - producing citizenship in a public maternity hospital in Athens, Greece’

Interests

1 Anthropology of kinship 2 Historical anthropology 3 Political anthropology 3 Adoption, marriage, welfare state, bureaucracy, reproductive industries 4 Ethical and affective economies, sexuality, temporality 5 Critical ethnography, ethics in research, public anthropology

Professional Experience

2015 - 2017

University of Bremen -Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Research

Post-doc Researcher (Marie Skłodowska-Curie WIRLCOFUND)

2017 - 2020

University of Edinburgh - School of Social and Political Science - Social Anthropology

Post-doctoral researcher

Description:

Postdoctoral Researcher in the research project “A Global Anthropology of Transforming Marriage (AGATM)”, as principal investigator in the research “Marital Resilience, Stability, and Transformation under Conditions of Economic Austerity in Athens,” funded by the “European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme” ( advanced grant), with Professor Janet Carsten as principal investigator.

2021 - 2022

University of the Aegean - Social anthropology and history

post-doctoral researcher

Description:

Postdoctoral Researcher in the research project “The biosocial experience of aging during the COVID-19 pandemic”, funded by ΕΛΙΔΕΚ, with Associate Professor Aglaia Chatzouli as Principal Investigator.

Courses

2024 - 2024

Historical anthropology LAK271 (Undergraduate)

2024 - 2024

Contemporary western societies (Undergraduate)

Skills

1 | Anthropology of kinship 2 | Historical anthropology 3 | Political anthropology 3 | Adoption, marriage, welfare state, bureaucracy, reproductive industries 4 | Ethical and affective economies, sexuality, temporality 5 | Critical ethnography, ethics in research, public anthropology