PHD CANDIDATES FOR THE WINTER SEMESTER 2025-2026
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY
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| CONSTANTINA HELMET | Precarity, unlearning, and engagement in the post-migrant society: Towards a decolonial feminist pedagogy of social work
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA). Γ) Vasilios Tsianos, Professor at Kiel University of Applied Sciences |
3η Department Assembly
2025-2026/10-11-2025 |
| Dimitra PROVIDED | Electronic music, techno-communities and emotional identities in Athens
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Leandros Kyriakopoulos, Assistant Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Vasiliki Lalioti, Associate Professor at the Department of Music Studies of the NKUA C) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) |
3η Department Assembly
2025-2026/10-11-2025 |
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY |
| Zisis Maria | Social insecurity and homelessness: Investigating the daily life of the homeless in the urban fabric Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Kleio Koutra, Associate Professor at the Department of Social Work of the Hellenic Mediterranean University C) Michael Christodoulou, Assistant Professor of the Department of Primary Education at AUTH. |
4th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2023-2023/18-12-2023 |
| Lappa Melina Eleftheria Gizela | Organizational culture, organizational control, and work identity: The construction of the labor subject in a tax office (DOY) directorate of the AADE
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Christina Karakioulafis, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete C) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of NKUA |
4th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2023-2023/18-12-2023 |
| SKOURTI CHRISTINA | The palimpsest space of Eleonas: Places, relations, fields, routes Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor at the Department of Sociology of NKUA C) Georgios Tsiolis, Professor at the Department of Sociology, University of Crete. |
4th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2023-2023/18-12-2023 |
PHD CANDIDATES SPRING SEMESTER 2023-2024
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY
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| Dimitra Alexopoulou | The narcissistic personality and the loneliness industry
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) C) Gerasimos Kouzelis, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration of the NKUA |
13η Provisional Section Assembly
2023-2024/03-06-2024 |
| Eleftheria Chaniotaki | Energy poverty, access to energy and social justice
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Evangelia Aranitou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) C) Efthymios Zervas, Professor at the Hellenic Open University |
13η Provisional Section Assembly
2023-2024/03-06-2024
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PhD CANDIDATES, WINTER SEMESTER 2022-2023
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY |
| CONSTANTINE - SPYRIDON DIMOPOULOS | The formation of the Greek bourgeoisie after World War II
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Evangelia Aranitou, Professor of the Department of Sociology at NKUA (supervisor)
B) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) C) Nikolaos Theoharakis, Professor at the Department of Economics of NKUA |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/ 12-12-2022
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| AJER ICHTIAR | Sociological approach to curricula and the education of linguistic minorities in Thrace: Social class and social reproduction
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Athanasios Alexiou, Professor at the Department of Sociology of the University of the Aegean C) Georgios Grollios, Professor at the Department of Elementary Education of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH) |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/ 12-12-2022
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| IOANNIS KEMACHLIS | Entrepreneurship and consumer discontinuities: Transformations in the food sector
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Evangelia Aranitou, Professor of the Department of Sociology at NKUA (supervisor)
B) Nikolaos Eriotis, Professor at the Department of Business Administration of NKUA C) Dimitrios Thomakos, Professor at the Department of Business Administration and Organizations of the NKUA |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/ 12-12-2022 |
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NIKH KOSMETATOU
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Locating the role of gender patterns in Greece and their effect on employment. Variances and financial inequalities in the lawyer's profession
Language of preparation: English |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Eleni Rethymiotaki, Associate Professor at the NKUA School of Law C) Maria Stratigaki, Associate Professor of the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/ 12-12-2022
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| Constantinos Polyzos | Elements of Orthodox Ethics: A Weberian Approach to the Orthodox Tradition in the 19th-Century Greece
Language of preparation: English |
A) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Grigorios Ananiadis, Associate Professor of the Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences C) Ioannis Papatheodorou, Associate Professor of the Department of Philology of the University of Patras |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/12-12-2022 |
| NEFELI ROMANOU | Integration and inclusion programs for migrants, refugees and asylum seekers (MRAS) in Greece between 2016-2024. Evaluating their successful implementation and the role of the relationship between street-level bureaucrats and MRAS in this case
Language of preparation: English |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Aikaterini Rozakou, Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences C) Nikolaos Kourahanis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Policy of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/12-12-2022 |
| Athanasios Tyrovolas | Times of increasing inequalities in the framework of mobility and access to citizenship rights
Language of preparation: English |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor) B) Apostolos Papadopoulos, Professor at the Department of Geography of Harokopio University C) Dimitrios Christopoulos, Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
3rd Provisional Department Assembly
2022-2023/12-12-2022 |
PhD CANDIDATES SPRING SEMESTER 2022-2023
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY |
| ALCESTE APANOMERITAKI | Aspects of changes in labor relations in information societies. The transformation of the relationship between work and mental health in the context of digital labor
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor) B) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor at the Department of Sociology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens C) Christina Karakioulafi, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the University of Crete |
10th Provisional Departmental Assembly
2022-2023/26-07-2023
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| Dourida Evaggelia | State, Church and Migration: The action of the Center for the Support of Repatriated and Migrants (1978-2012)
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor) B) Tassos Anastassiadis, Professor at the Department of History and Classical Studies of McGill University C) Grigorios Papathomas, Professor at the Faculty of Theology of the NKUA |
10th Provisional Departmental Assembly
2022-2023/26-07-2023
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| KOUDOUINA PANAGIOTA | The role of trade union action in shaping educational programs and procedures in Primary Education. A comparative analysis of four reform attempts (1987, 1990, 1997, 2021) and their outcomes
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor) B) Nelly Askouni, Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) C) Evangelia Kalerante, Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the University of Western Macedonia |
10th Provisional Departmental Assembly
2022-2023/26-07-2023 |
| MUSARAY ILIRINTA | Identities in the second generation of Albanian immigrants: At the crossroads of Greekness and Albanianness
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Parsanoglou, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor) B) Alexandra Androutsou, Professor at the Department of Early Childhood Education of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) C) Dimitrios Christopoulos, Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
10th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2022-2023/26-07-2023 |
| MILTIADES FATOUROS | Bourgeois society as a self-reproducing contradiction
Language of elaboration: German |
A) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor) B) Eleni Rethymiotaki, Associate Professor at the NKUA School of Law C) Aliki Lavranou, Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
10th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2022-2023/26-07-2023 |
| Saha Aishik | The Digital Economy of Networked Disinformation: A Critical Theory of Value and Labour on the Internet
Language of preparation: English |
A) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor) B) Emmanouil Spyridakis, Professor at the Department of Sociology of NKUA C) Antonio Casilli, Professor of Sociology at Telecom Paris, Institut Polytechnique de Paris |
10th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2022-2023/26-07-2023 |
PHD CANDIDATES FALL SEMESTER 2021-2022
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY |
| Stylianos Koufogiannakis | Behavioral control and proactive suppression in the era of big data. Power and resistance in digital space
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor) B) Eleni Rethymiotaki, Associate Professor at the NKUA School of Law C) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) |
7th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2021-2022/22-11-2022
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| NIKOLETTA SARLA | Information, computation, and the metamorphoses of psychology in the 20th century. From the scientific study of mental phenomena to artificial intelligence
Language of preparation: English |
A) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor) B) Manolis Dafermos, Professor of the Department of Psychology at the University of Crete C) Petros Roussos, Professor at the Department of Psychology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (EKPA) |
7th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2021-2022/22-11-2022
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| MARIA SFYAKIANOU | Slave. A historical and sociological approach
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor) B) Eleni Rethymiotaki, Associate Professor at the NKUA School of Law C) Vassiliki Lalioti, Associate Professor of the Department of Music Studies of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) |
7th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2021-2022/22-11-2022 |
| ELENI TSATSARONI | The post-human perspective in 21st-century science fiction. The technological creatures of modern science fiction as post-human subjects
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor) B) Vasiliki Lalioti, Associate Professor at the Department of Music Studies of the NKUA C) Petros Petridis, Assistant Professor at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
7th Provisional Sectional Assembly
2021-2022/22-11-2022 |
PHD CANDIDATES SPRING SEMESTER 2021-2022
| Full name | PhD Thesis Topic | Three-member committee | DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY |
| Christos Krystallis | The self-negativity of the labor force and “the sciences of production”
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Emmanouil Patiniotis, Professor of the Department of Sociology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (supervisor)
B) Vasiliki Lalioti, Associate Professor at the Department of Music Studies of the NKUA C) Efstathios Arapostathis, Professor at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science of NKUA |
16th Provisional Section Assembly
2021-2022/23-05-2022
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| PANAGIOTIS LALOS | The foundation of the critique of ideology as a theoretical problem. The sociological paradigm of Karl Mannheim and the counter-paradigms of Eric Voegelin and Max Horkheimer
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Eleni Rethymiotaki, Associate Professor at the NKUA School of Law C) Grigorios Ananiadis, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and History of the Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences |
16th Provisional Section Assembly
2021-2022/23-05-2022
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| IOANNIS MANTZARIS | Pavlos Kalligas, Philosopher of History
Language of preparation: Greek |
A) Dimitrios Karydas, Associate Professor of the Department of Sociology of NKUA (supervisor)
B) Eleni Rethymiotaki, Associate Professor at the NKUA School of Law C) Ioannis Papatheodorou, Associate Professor of the Department of Philology of the University of Patras |
16th Provisional Section Assembly
2021-2022/23-05-2022 |
