HALKIAS ALEXANDRA
Title/academic status: Professor
Sector: Sociology
Academic field: Gender and Social Theory
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Research interests: Gender, sexuality and nationalism in media and other discourses; The body, borders and “the human”; Contemporary social theory
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Courses:
Undergraduate Courses
- Issues in Contemporary Social Theory
- Gender and Contemporary Social Theory
- Gender and Sexualities
- Representations of Gender and the Nation in the Mass Media
Graduate Courses
- Gender, Discourse, Power
- Contemporary Issues in Social Theory
- Gender and Ethnicity: Contemporary Theoretical Approaches
Brief CV
Alexandra Halkias is a Professor at the Department of Sociology, Panteion University, Athens, Greece. She has also taught at the University of California, San Diego, at San Diego State University and at the M.I.T. in Boston, USA. She has a Ph.D. in Communication, University of California, San Diego, a C.Phil. from the same and a B.A. and M.A. in Sociology from Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. She currently is serving as Honorary Visiting Professor at the Media Discourse Center of De Montfort University of Leicester. She has served as Visiting Scholar at the Centre of Gender Studies of Stockholm University, and as Guest Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Research in the Social Sciences (AISSR), Programme Group on Care, Health and the Body. She has published numerous articles and books in Greek and international publications. Her book The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, abortion and nationalism in modern Greece was published by Duke University Press (2004) and translated into Greek (Alexandria Press 2007). She is also author of Emfyles Viaiotites (Gendered violences: power, discourse, subjectivities) (Alexandria 2011). She is editor or co-editor of several books including Nation and Gender in Crisis: Masculinities Frontstage (Futura, 2021); a book on the social body and discourse (Katarti press-Dini 2005, 2006) with Martha Michailidou, and a book on the politics of LGBT identities in Greece (Plethron Press, 2012, 2021) with Anna Apostolelli. Current research interests: the intersection of nationalism with ‘the other’ at the site of gendered subjectivities in crisis; human to nonhuman relationalities and the politics of vision.
Selected publications
Monographs
Halkias, Alexandra. 2011. Gendered Violences: Power, discourse, subjectivities. Athens, Greece: Alexandria Press. [in Greek] 183p.
Halkias, Alexandra. 2004. The Empty Cradle of Democracy: Sex, Abortion and Nationalism in Modern Greece. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press. 413p.
Articles in series, journals and volumes
Halkias, Alexandra. 2021. “Human, non-human and life as war.” Postcards from the Anthropocene, Benek Cincik, Tiago Torres-Campos, dpr-Barcelona press. Pp.100-109.
Halkias, Alexandra. 2020. “The center (of Athens), the margins and the violence of spectators,” in Queer Politics/Public Memory:30 texts for Jack [in Greek], Athanasiou, A., Gkouskousis, G., Papanikolaou, D., eds. Roxa Luxemberg Stiftung, Office in Greece.Pp.151-161 https://rosalux.gr/sites/default/files/publications/rosalux_queerpolitics.pdf
Halkias, Alexandra. 2019. “Tracking love in the wild: from San Diego to Athens, Greece and beyond.” Imaginations: Journal of Cross-Cultural Image Studies, (10)1. July 2019. Special issue: Critical relationality: Indigenous and queer belonging beyond settler sex and nature, eds. Angela Willey, Kim Tallbear. http://imaginations.glendon.yorku.ca/?p=11917
Halkias, Alexandra. 2015. “Democracy and Greece-in-crisis: contesting masculinities take center stage,” DEP: Deportate, Esuli, e Profughe, Special Issue: A gender perspective on economic crisis and social change, Vol. 27:182-191.
Halkias, Alexandra. 2012. “Alzheimer’s, national bankruptcy, and hegemonic masculinities in Greece.” Medische Antrhropologie, Special Issue on Ethnography and Self-exploration, Tijdschrift over gezondheid en cultuur. Vol. 24(1): 97-114.
Halkias, Alexandra. 2008. “Nationalism, Lipstick, and Kitchen Knives: Representations of power and society in the case of Vazirani” in Re-framing Representations of Women Susan, Shrifin ed.. Hampshire, England: Ashgate Publishing. 225-240.
Halkias, Alexandra. 2003. “Money, God and Race: The Politics of Reproduction and the Nation in Modern Greece.” The European Journal of Women’s Studies. Vol.10(2): 211-232.
Edited Books
Halkias, Alexandra, ed. and Preface, 2021. One-Dimensional Queer, by Roderick Ferguson. Translation to Greek by Vasia Lekka, Athens: Open University Press.
Halkias, Alexandra, ed. and Intro., 2021. Nation and Gender in Crisis: Masculinities Frontstage [in Greek]. Athens: Futura press. 151 p.
Apostolelli, Anna, Halkias, Alexandra, eds.and Intro., 2012, 2021. The body, gender, sexuality: LGBTQ politics in Greece. Athens: Plethron Press. [in Greek] 278p.
Michailidou, Martha, Halkias, Alexandra, eds. and Intro., 2005, 2006. The Production of the Social Body. Athens: Dini and Katarti Press. [in Greek] 284p.
Conference/meeting announcements
Halkias, A., Vassilopoulou, C., “Animals and biopolitical power at the Attica Zoological Park, Athens, Greece.” Annual Conference of the International Association of Vegan Sociologists. 9-10 October 2021.
Salata, C., Halkias, A., “Rapid tests in strange environments: troubling binaries in the COVID pandemic,” Anti-bodies, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association, Virtual Conference, 9-12 June, 2021.
Halkias, A., Invited Keynote Speech. “On bullying and the limitations of an individual-centered approach,” Conference for Hombat: Combating homophobia in the school environment program [in Greek]. Gazi Technopolis Athens. 26 September 2019.
Halkias, A., Colloquium of the Program USVreact “Confronting sexual violence in the university: Institutional, educational and political challenges” [in Greek], Talk at Roundtable on “The intersectionality of sexual and gendered violence.” Participation in Networking Discussion. Panteion University, 9 February 2018.
Halkias, A., “Dogs, humans and rocks: towards a critical relationality” [in Greek], Animalia: Human and non-human beings Conference, Department of Sociology, Panteion University, 9-10 November 2017.
Halkias, A., “Cultural biopolitics and the Anthropocene: Humans, non-humans and life as war.” Postcards from the Anthropocene: Unsettling the geopolitics of representation Symposium, University of Edinburgh, June 22-24 2017.
Halkias, A., “’Radical left’ SYRIZA and ANEL in Greece 2015: on men and nationalism as potent strategies of policing crisis.” Panel Title: Crises of (Im)Migration and Belonging. Annual Cultural Studies Association Conference, Policing the Crisis, Villanova University, Philadelphia, PA, USA. 2-4 June 2016.