Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Athena Athanasiou is Professor of Social Anthropology and Gender Theory at Panteion University for Social and Political Sciences, Greece. Her books include Agonistic Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2017); Crisis as a State of Exception: Critiques and Resistances (Savvalas/Athens, 2012); Life at the Limit: Essays on Gender, Body, and Biopolitics (Ekkremes/Athens, 2007). She is co-author, with Judith Butler, of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political (Polity Press, 2013). She has published numerous papers and book chapters on questions at the intersection between contemporary critical theory, gender theory, and politics of memory.