Vasiliki Neofotistos
PhD
Research Topics
The Balkans; Eastern Europe; violence; political anthropology; the anthropology of war and peace; the interface between social anthropology and policy-making; conflict management and prevention; post-conflict stabilization, and democracy building
Education
- PhD, Harvard University
- MSt, Oxford University
- BA, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Courses Offered
Undergraduate Courses
- APY 199 | UB Seminar: Contemporary Warfare
- APY 313 | Anthropology and Film
- APY 494 | Senior Seminar: Violence and the Nation-State
Graduate Courses
- APY 593 | Anthropology of War and Peace
- APY 623 | Memory and Commemoration
- APY 655 | Graduate Survey Social Anthropology
- APY 694 | Violence and the Nation-State
Selected Publications
Books
- 2021. Macedonia and Identity Politics After the Prespa Agreement, ed. New York: Routledge.
- 2012. The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia. University of Pennsylvania Press, the Ethnography of Political Violence series.
Special Journal Editor
- 2010. Critical Engagements with Cultural Intimacy. Anthropological Quarterly, guest editor. Spring 2010, Volume 83, no 2.
Articles and Book Chapters
- 2021. “Commemoration and the Re-invention of a City: Alternative Memories of the Past in North Macedonia.” In Cultures and Politics of Remembrance: Southeast European and Balkan Perspectives, edited by Naum Trajanovski, Petar Todorov, Biljana Volchevska, and Ljupcho S. Risteski, 89-96. Skopje: Forum Ziviler Friedensdienst.
- 2021. “Introduction: Macedonia: What’s in a Name?” In Macedonia and Identity Politics After the Prespa Agreement, edited by Vasiliki P. Neofotistos, 1-27. New York: Routledge.
- 2019. “War Criminals, National Heroes, and Transitional Justice in Post-conflict Macedonia.” In Everyday Life in the Balkans, edited by David Montgomery, 220-229. Indiana: Indiana University Press.
- 2019. “The Rhetoric of War and the Reshaping of Civil Society in the Republic of North Macedonia.” Part of the critical discussion forum on “New War Frontiers” Slavic Review 78 (2): 357-64.
- 2019. “Sport and Nationalism in the Republic of North Macedonia.” Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology 85 (3): 110-22.
Selected Awards
- Awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities grant (2021-2022) from the Dialogues on the Experience of War program. Project titled “Developing a Sense of Meaningful Belonging Among Veterans.” Project Director (with Co Project Directors Drs. Lisa Butler and Bonnie Vest).