People

Shane Bernard

Shane Bernard is a 4th Year student at the American University of Beirut — Mediterraneo. He is studying Philosophy, Politics, and Economics on a Presidential Scholarship with six consecutive Dean’s honor list awards. He also works as a Peer Tutor at the Writing Center in his university and collaborates with the university newspaper as an editor and author.

When not studying, he is on his motorcycle, maybe on a 245 kilometer ride across Cyprus, weaving through Paphos, Throni, Troodos, and Polis. He brings the same sense of exploration to his barista duties: always experimenting with variables to balance the sweet, caramel, and bitter notes of a well made espresso.

Ianthi Papadema

Ianthi Papadema is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Communication and Internet Studies at Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). She holds a BA in Greek Language and Literature from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and an MA in Mass Communications from the University of Leicester. Her doctoral research examines the relationship between food-delivery platforms and workers in the production of urban space and subjectivities. Ianthi has previously worked in EU Horizon 2020 research projects and has participated in public scholarship and community engagement projects addressing urban challenges in Limassol, Cyprus.

Yorgos Servetas

Yorgos Servetas is a PhD candidate in visual anthropology at the Cyprus University of Technology. He has written and directed the film Standing Aside, Watching (Toronto IFF 2013, Berlinale Panorama 2014), Cargo and other films. He has also published a novel, titled The Woman with the Gun.

Marina Kyrlitsia

Marina is a researcher with a multidisciplinary background, holding degrees in Political Science and in Communication and Internet Studies. She is currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences in Athens.

Nandia Dedeletakis

Nandia Dedeletakis is a researcher and lecturer specializing in liminal spaces, displacement, and the literatures of space and place in Cyprus, working across literature, film, and ethnography. She currently works at the University of Nicosia. Her PhD, Liminal Spaces of Cyprus: Storytellings of Power, Identity and Displacement in the Seafront, Buffer Zones, Camps, examines how narratives shape public space across Limassol’s seafront, the UN buffer zone, and Kofinou through postcolonial and feminist spatial perspectives. She is developing a postdoctoral project on domestic workers in Limassol and Kyrenia, examining their narratives and everyday spatial experience.

Georgina Christou

Georgina Christou is a social anthropologist specializing in youth social movements, the politics of youth and childhood, the right to the city, urban movements, public space and gentrification processes. She has been a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences and held postdoctoral positions at the University of Cyprus and European University Cyprus. She has been the author of many academic articles and contributions to edited volumes. Currently, she is finishing her manuscript ‘Youth as political actors in Cyprus: Ludic activism, public space and political becoming’ to be published by the series Global Youth of Temple University Press.

Theodoros Kouros

I am a Lecturer in the Department of Communication and Internet Studies and a social anthropologist. My research interests combine a diverse range of themes and methodologies, with particular emphasis on the construction of space and place, citizenship, memory, ethnic and national identities and migration. I have published one monograph, titled Tactical Citizenships: Encounters with Everyday State in the Republic of Cyprus (Berghahn) and several peer reviewed articles and book chapters. I have conducted long-term ethnographic research on the islands of Lesbos and Samos (Greece), along the Greek-Albanian border (Epirus, Gjirokastër and Korçë) and in Limassol, Cyprus.