About

Rosa Vasilaki is an academic who holds a Doctorate in History from the Ecoles des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Bristol, UK. She is currently an adjunct professor at the CYA (College Year in Athens) and has taught classes at various academic institutions in Greece, Israel and the UK.

Rosa has conducted extensive research on the far right, football violence, religious fundamentalism, migration and refugee integration as well as feminism and gender-related issues. Rosa is the founder of DISSENSUS-Social Research group which has completed recently in-depth research on the far right in Greece, which was published under the title “Mainstreaming the Far Right in Greece: Gender, Media, Armed Forces and the Church”. She is also the co-convenor of the Politics of Liberation seminar series which takes place under the auspices of the Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung in Athens. Besides her academic work, Rosa is also a contributor for Jacobin Magazine and for the New Left Review and other political venues and news outlets commenting on issues related to her research expertise.

Education

2007-2013 PhD in Sociology

University of Bristol

‘Critical social theory and the politics of Muslim subjectivity’

1999-2003 PhD in History and Civilizations

École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France

(‘Entre tradition et modernité: Idéologie, femmes, féminité - Grèce 1936-1941)

1997-1998 MA, Social History of Ideas, Civilizations, Sciences and Religions

Université Paris VIII, St Denis – Vincennes, France

1992-1996 BA (Hons) History and Archaeology

University of Ioannina, Greece

Awards and Grants

Professional Memberships

2015 Winner of the second prize of the Greek Politics Specialist Group 2015 Competition ‘Innovative Approaches for the Study of Greek Society and Politics’for the research project ‘Policing the Greek Crisis: Public Order and Civil Unrest in Times of Turmoil’.
2012 Winner of the Northedge Essay Competition, Millennium-Journal of International Studies for the article ‘Provincializing IR? Prospects and Deadlocks in post-Western IR Theory’.
2011 British International Studies Association-Japan Association for International Relations, postgraduate funding for paper presentation at the collaborative panels, Tsukuba, Japan.
2011 British International Studies Association, postgraduate funding for paper presentation at the Annual Conference, Manchester.
2010 School of Advanced Study, University of London, funding for the early-career workshop ‘London Debates 2010’, London.
2010 Alumni Foundation, University of Bristol, postgraduate funding for paper presentation at the ‘Postcolonialism and Islam’ conference, University of Sunderland.
2010 Robert Skills Postgraduate Fund, Faculty of Social Science and Law, University of Bristol, funding for organizing a PSS research group workshop (see below) on One-Dimensional University
2009 Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Bristol, postgraduate funding for organizing a PSS research group workshop (see below) on Alain Badiou
2009 Robert Skills Postgraduate Fund, Faculty of Social Sciences and Law, University of Bristol, funding for paper presentation at the British Sociological Association Theory Group Conference, University of Warwick
2008 Robert Skills Postgraduate Fund, Faculty of Social Science and Law, University of Bristol, funding for organizing a PSS research group workshop (see below) on Eurocentrism

Member since 2007: British Sociological Association