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PHD CANDIDATES FOR THE WINTER SEMESTER 2025-2026

Full name PhD Thesis Topic Three-member committee DECISION OF THE DEPARTMENT ASSEMBLY

 

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).

ΓVasilios TsianosProfessor 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

 

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

 

 

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

 

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

 

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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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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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