Angeliki Sifaki (2816-1E0C-9267)

Curriculum Vitae

Angeliki Sifaki

I am a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES-UC). My current 3-year research project, titled HomoClassicisms - Dangerous Liaisons: Classical Antiquity and LGBTQ Movements in Greece, the UK, and the US, is a cooperation between CES-UC and the Department of Classics, Ohio State University, USA. My previous 2-year research project, titled HomoPolitics - Greek Homonationalism: Entanglement of Sexual Politics with Issues of Race and Nationalism in the Case of Lesbian and Gay Movements and Queer Activist Groups in Greece, was hosted by the Sociology Department of Newcastle University in the UK and it was again funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Scheme. In 2018, I earned my PhD from the Graduate Gender Programme of Utrecht University in the Netherlands, where I specialised in gender and sexuality studies, education and theories of nationalism. During my PhD studies, I conceived and developed my own research project, titled "Greek Lesbian Teachers: School, Nation, Family", the first of its kind and the only one at present to be undertaken within the Greek context. Additionally, so far, I have an extensive experience as a Principal Investigator in research projects dealing with ethnic and religious minorities and educational inequalities. In 2020, I was elected as the Chair of AtGender, a role in which I served until September 2023. My most recent book is the edited volume Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised (Routledge, 2022).

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Identification

Personal identification

Full name: Angeliki Sifaki

Citation names

Sifaki, Angeliki
Sifaki Aggeliki

Author identifiers

Ciência ID: 2816-1E0C-9267
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9953-2151

Email addresses

angelikisifaki@ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Addresses

Colégio de S. Jerónimo, 3000-995, Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal (Professional)

Websites

https://www.ces.uc.pt/en/ces/pessoas/investigadoras-es/angeliki-sifaki (Scholar)
https://homoclassicisms.ces.uc.pt (Professional)

Knowledge fields

Social Sciences - Sociology - Social Topics

Languages

Language	Speaking	Reading	Writing	Listening	Peer-review
Greek (Mother tongue)
English	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)	Proficiency (C2)
French	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)	Intermediate (B1)

Education

	Degree	Classification
2013/03/01 - 2018/06/12 Concluded	Graduate Gender Programme (Doctorat) Major in PhD Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands "Greek Lesbian Teachers: School, Nation, Family" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)	N/A
2008/10/01 - 2010/07/15 Concluded	Education Studies (Master) Ethniko kai Kapodistriako Panepistemio Athenon, Greece
2005/03/01 - 2008/07/15 Concluded	Education Studies (Master) Major in Curricula, Literacy and Language Teaching Panepistemio Patron, Greece
1997/10/01 - 2001/07/15 Concluded	Education Studies (Bachelor) Panepistemio Patron, Greece

Affiliation

Positions / Appointments

	Category Host institution	Employer
2023/10/01 - 2026/09/30	Marie Sklodowska-Curie Global Postdoctoral Fellow	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal
	Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal

Projects

Grant

	Designation	Funders
2023/10/01 - 2026/09/30	Dangerous Liaisons: Classical Antiquity and LGBTQ Movements in Greece, the UK, and the US 101105633 https://doi.org/10.3030/101105633 Research Fellow Universidade de Coimbra Centro de Estudos Sociais, Portugal	European Commission Ongoing
2019/09/01 - 2021/12/31	Greek Homonationalism: Entanglement of Sexual Politics with Issues of Race and Nationalism in the Case of Lesbian and Gay Movements and Queer Activist Groups in Greece 844058 Post-doc Fellow Newcastle University, United Kingdom	European Commission Concluded
2013/03/01 - 2018/06/12	Greek Lesbian Teachers: School, Nation, Family 00000000 PhD Student Fellow Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands	Idryma A G Leventi Concluded

Contract

	Designation	Funders
2010/09/01 - 2012/06/30	Education of the Muslim Minority Children in Thrace PEM Co-Principal Investigator (Co-PI) Aristoteleio Panepistemio Thessalonikes, Greece	Hellenic Republic Ministry of National Education and Religious Affairs Concluded

Outputs

Publications

Book chapter	Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Staging the Nation through/with Pride: Affective Atmospheres of Homonationalism in Athens Pride’s Visual Politics". In The Changing Face of Pride Events: Movements, Activism, Histories, edited by Ammaturo, Francesca Romana; Slootmaeckers, Koen. Manchester, United Kingdom: Manchester University Press, 2026. Accepted Berteke Waaldijk; Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Berteke Waaldijk. "Feminist Perspectives on Researching Prisons". In Voices from Gender Studies: Negotiating the Terms of Academic Production, Epistemology, and the Logics and Contents of Identity, edited by Edyta Just; Maria Udén; Vera Weetzel; Cecilia Åsberg, 116-120. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2023. Published Sifaki, Angeliki; C.L. Quinan; Katarina Loncarevic. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "When Homonationalism Meets Femonationalism Meets Ablenationalism: Contextualised Interventions in Feminist Teaching". In Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism: Critical Pedagogies Contextualised, edited by Sifaki, Angeliki; C.L. Quinan; Katarina Loncarevic, 16-28. London, United Kingdom: Routledge, 2022. Published • 10.4324/9781003152644-1 Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Writing in the Third and Fourth Grades Language Textbooks". In Literacy Research and Practice in the Greek Society, edited by Panayiota Papoulia-Tzelepi, 381-387. Athens, Greece: Ellinika Grammata, 2006. Published
Book review	Sifaki, Angeliki. "Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood". Review of Wronged: The Weaponization of Victimhood 19, 2025 (2025): 2304-2306. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/25291/5016. Published Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies". Review of Women Workers' Education, Life Narratives and Politics: Geographies, Histories, Pedagogies 31, 8 (2019): 1095-1096. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09540253.2018.1552362?casa_token=ihe-m65x-5cAAAAA:zhecBKp0Jugm3_QLLgBQd6n955wwUIp2pixQrIakDSScca9xKqbIhrPt5dC107KgcgKaHewBhTSI&casa_token=sFmH2nr_eYEAAAAA:15kCk85ByiUsELcC7jtVWEVE430hQoC64IRTi4JS2f96iUDNrh9yqp05vwtAl2bO0BS4QCxTtFIt. Published • 10.1080/09540253.2018.1552362 Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Feminine Subject". Review of Feminine Subject 55, (2016): 47-47. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0277539515001740?via%3Dihub. Published • 10.1016/j.wsif.2015.12.003
Edited book	Sifaki, Angeliki; Quinan, C.L.; Loncarevic, Katarina, ed. Homonationalism, Femonationalism and Ablenationalism. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. 2022. Published • 10.4324/b22813 • Editor
Journal article	Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Lesbianising School Heterotopias in Greece". Pedagogy, Culture & Society (2026): Accepted Sifaki, Angeliki. "Lesbian Teachers in Greece and Their Choice of the Teaching Profession: A Foucauldian Reading". Comparative Education Review (2026): Accepted Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Which Side Are We On? Feminist Studies in the Time of Neoliberalism or Neoliberal Feminist Studies?". Women's Studies International Forum 54 (2016): 111-118. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277539515000990?casa_token=JwWuvWh-D-0AAAAA:00_j6zpFCapHh3-ldEElpmqGi4dBgSj95yAULLf4dIvdn_3gxxGWsZItDsHCJO0T8qSXdkyBHw. Open access • Published • 10.1016/j.wsif.2015.06.011 Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Cognitive Models of Writing". Journal of Language and Literacy 20 (2008): 5-7. Open access • Published Alexopoulos, Dimitrios; MANESIS, NIKOLAOS; Filippatou, Diamanto; Vasiliki Diamanti; Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Alexopoulos, Dimitrios. "Construction of a Vocabulary Test for 10-Year-Old Pupils". Scientific Yearbook Arethas 3 (2005): 11-24. https://www.edu-sw.upatras.gr/are8as/aleksopoulos-s-d-manesis-n-filippatou-d-sakellari-m-sifaki-a-2005-anaptyksi-enos-test-leksilogiou-gia-tous-mathites-tis-d-taksis-tou-dimotikou-epistimoniki-epetirida-arethas-3-11/. Open access • Published Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Babies and Books". Journal of Language and Literacy 15 (2004): 2-5. Open access • Published Filippatou, Diamanto; Alexopoulos, Dimitrios; Vasiliki Diamanti; Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Filippatou, Diamanto. "Effects of Children’s Birth Order, Family Size, Parental Education and Profession on the Linguistic-Reading Competence of 9-Year-Old Pupils". Pedagogical Review Journal 36 (2003): 213-229. https://ojs.lib.uom.gr/index.php/paidagogiki/article/view/6881. Open access • Published • https://doi.org/10.26266/jpevol36pp213-229
Journal issue	Angeliki Sifaki; Astrid Biele Mefebue ; En Boka; Grenz, Sabine; Ksenia Meshkova. "Difference, Diversity, Diffraction. Confronting Hegemonies and Dispossessions". 1 (2021): https://www.genderopen.de/handle/25595/2056. Published • 10.25595/2050
Preface / Postscript	Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. "Introduction". Preface to Nomadika Ypokeimena: Ensomatotita kai Emfyli Diafora Sti Sygxroni Feministiki Theoria [Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory], edited by Sifaki, Angeliki, 11-21. Athens, Greece: Nissos Publications. 2014. Published
Translation	Sifaki, Angeliki. Corresponding author: Sifaki, Angeliki. Nomadika Ypokeimena: Ensomatotita kai Emfyli Diafora Sti Sygxroni Feministiki Theoria [Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory]. Athens, Greece: Nissos. 2014. Published

Activities

Oral presentation

	Presentation title	Event name Host (Event location)
2025/11/14	Affective Atmospheres of Homonationalism: What’s the Colour of Athens Pride?	45th National Women’s Studies Annual Conference National Women’s Studies Association (San Juan, Puerto Rico)
2025/10/30	Locating Ancient Greece in LGBTQ Historiography: An Ontological Reading of Greek Homonationalism	Birthing the Nation Seminar Series Penn State University (State College, United States)
2025/10/25	Classical Antiquity in Greek LGBTQ Historiography	Lesbian Lives Conference (New York, United States)
2024/10/28	Classical Antiquity in the Historiography of LGBTQ Movements: It’s Greek to Whom?	Department of Classics, Ohio State University (Columbus, United States)
2024/05/29	Classical Antiquity and LGBTQ Movements: Adventures of/in the Archives	UnCoveR Webinars Centre for Social Studies (CES) (Coimbra, Portugal)
2024/04/16	Classical Antiquity in LGBTQ Movements' Historiography: An Introductory Overview	Queer Inconveniences: Tensions in Sexualities and Gender Research, Politics and Communities, Annual Meeting, American Association of Geographers American Association of Geographers (Honolulu, United States)
2024/01/24	Classical Antiquity and LGBTQ Historiography: Introductory Remarks	Centre for Intimate Sexual Citizenship (CISC) University of Essex (Essex, United Kingdom)
2023/08/21	"Sex Education Is a Family Affair": 'Gender Ideology' and White Anxieties in Greece	Monsters Summer School III: Tracing, Remembering and Reclaiming Queer Lives Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra (Coimbra, Portugal)
2022/06/22	Why Does Homonationalism Still Sound Greek to LGBTQ Activists in Greece?	AtGender 11th European Feminist Research Conference University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy)
2022/02/28	Presenting Homonationalisms in Europe Today	Graduate Gender Programme Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2021/10/22	Greek Homonationalism: Some Introductory Reflections	Gender Critical Feminism and the Far Right Newcastle University (Newcastle , United Kingdom)
2021/06/10	Unemployed LGBTQI Populations in Greece and COVID-19	Gender in and beyond Covid-19 Institute for Social Science, Newcastle University (Newcastle, United Kingdom)
2019/03/11	Silence(s) in Feminist Interviewing	Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2019/01/07	Sexuality, Nation, Race: The Representation of Lesbian Teachers in Greece	Department of Sociology Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece)
2018/06/21	'We are famous for the Greek Eros': Crypto-Colonial Mediations and Knowledge Production of/about Lesbian Teachers in Greece	9th Annual Conference on the New Materialisms Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2018/05/11	Lesbian Teachers and the Greek State	Centre for Gender Studies Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences (Athens, Greece)
2016/04/22	Women's/Gender Studies and Contemporary Changes in Academic Cultures: European Perspectives	AtGender Spring Conference Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2015/02/21	The 'Sexual Other' within the Greek Educational System	Lesbian Feminism/s Now University of Brighton (Brighton, United Kingdom)
2015/02/15	The Representation of Lesbian Teachers on Screen	Module: Gender, Sexuality and Education University College London, Institute of Education (London, United Kingdom)
2013/04/27	Which Side Are We On?	AtGender Spring Conference University of Gothenburg (Gothenburg, Sweden)
2013/04/05	IMF as I'M Fired or as I'M a Feminist: Neoliberalism, Nationalism and Precarious Politics in Feminist Studies	Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands)
2012/11/09	State of Exception in Greece: The Case of HIV Positive Women	AtGender WeAVE Workshop: "Transversal Dialogues: Current Practices and Topics Within European Gender and Queer Studies" Centre for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Berlin, Germany)

Supervision

	Thesis Title Role	Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2026/02/01 - 2026/06/30	The Construction of Race in the Greek Primary School Textbooks Supervisor	Gender Studies: Methodologies, Theories, Policies (Master) Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2026/02/01 - 2026/06/30	Women’s Representation in Metal Music Culture Supervisor	Gender Studies: Methodologies, Theories, Policies (Master) Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio Schole Thetikon Epistemon & Technologias, Greece
2026/02/01 - 2026/06/30	Discursive Constructions of Motherhood: The Patras Child-Killing Case as Framed on X Supervisor	Gender Studies: Methodologies, Theories, Policies (Master) Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2026/02/01 - 2026/06/30	LGBTQI+ Migrants and the Labour Market in Greece Supervisor	Gender Studies: Methodologies, Theories, Policies (Master) Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2021 - 2023/11/30	Empathic Activists in Education: Exploring Emotion and Affect in Non-Formal, Peer-led Sexuality Education in Portugal Co-supervisor	Gender Studies (Master) Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands

Event organisation

	Event name Type of event (Role)	Institution / Organization
2022/06/21 - 2022/06/21	Book launch event for the Greek translation of Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times (2022/06/21 - 2022/06/21) Meeting (Other)	Newcastle University, United Kingdom
2022/06/15 - 2022/06/18	AtGender 11th European Feminist Research Conference (2022/06/15 - 2022/06/18) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2019/05/08 - 2019/05/10	AtGender Spring Conference (2019/05/08 - 2019/05/10) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
2018/09/12 - 2018/09/15	AtGender 10th European Feminist Research Conference (2018/09/12 - 2018/09/15) Conference (Member of the Organising Committee)	Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Germany
2014/12/04 - 2014/12/04	Organiser of book launch event for the Greek translation of "Nomadic Subjects: Embodiment and Sexual Difference in Contemporary Feminist Theory" with Professor Rosi Braidotti (2012/12/04 - 2012/12/04) Meeting (Other)	Panteion Panepistemio Koinonikon kai Politikon Epistemon, Greece

Event participation

	Activity description Type of event	Event name Institution / Organization
2025/03/21 - 2025/03/22	The 18th Annual Feminist Theory Workshop Workshop	Duke University Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, United States
2024/09/27 - 2024/09/29	Coordinator of the thematic strand "Unequal relations within gender studies", AtGender Spring Conference Conference	Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands
2023/09/04 - 2023/09/06	Coordinator of the thematic strand "Pedagogies of Exclusion: Islamophobia, Racism and Processes of Racialisation in Europe", AtGender Spring Conference Conference	Feminist Pedagogy of/beyond Borders Kadir Has Üniversitesi, Turkey
2022/06/15 - 2022/06/18	Coordinator of the thematic strand "Citizenship, Nationalism(s) and Racism(s)", AtGender 11th European Feminist Research Conference Conference	Social Change in a Feminist Perspective: Situating Gender Research in Times of Political Contention Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Italy
2015/05/25 - 2015/05/29	Feminist Critical Analysis, Queering Knowledge: Intimacies, Spaces, Affects Workshop	Inter-University Center (IUC) Univerzitet u Beogradu, Serbia
2013/10/22 - 2013/10/24	Sex Machines: Politicising Contemporary Sexual Pleasure Workshop	InterGender Linköpings universitet, Sweden
2013/09/10 - 2013/09/12	Studying Feminist Thinkers and Texts Workshop	Helsingin yliopiston kestävyystieteen instituutti, Finland

Ad Hoc journal article review

	Journal title (ISSN)	Publisher
2023 - Current	Women's Studies International Forum (1879-243X)	Elsevier
2023 - Current	Journal of Lesbian Studies (1540-3548)	Taylor & Francis
2023 - Current	Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict (2213-1280)	John Benjamins
2021 - Current	Feminist Theory (1741-2773)	SAGE Journals
2017 - Current	Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies (2352-2437)	Amsterdam University Press

Association member

	Society Organization name	Role
2025/11/01 - Current	National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA)	Member
2024/02 - Current	Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)	Member
2017 - Current	AtGender	Member
2016 - Current	Gender and Education Association	Member
2023/11/01 - 2025/10/30	American Association of Geographers	Member
2020 - 2023	AtGender	Chair

Committee member

	Activity description Role	Institution / Organization
2025/05/01 - 2028/04/30	ECPR Steering Committee Member Southern European Politics Member	European Consortium for Political Research, United Kingdom

Conference scientific committee

	Conference name	Conference host
2023/09/01 - 2024/08/31	Gender Studies and the Precarious Labour of Making a Difference: (Un)paid Jobs, Internships, and Volunteering in the Worlds of Activism, Profit, and Non-profit	Utrecht University

Course / Discipline taught

	Academic session	Degree Subject (Type)	Institution / Organization
2024/10/01 - 2025/02/28	October-February	Gender Studies: Methodologies, Theories, Policies (Master)	Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2024/03/04 - 2024/07/31	March-July	(Master)	Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2023/10/01 - 2024/02/29	October-February	Gender Studies (Master)	Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2023/03/01 - 2023/07/31	March-July	Gender Studies (Master)	Elleniko Anoikto Panepistemio, Greece
2018/03/01 - 2018/06/30	March-June	Gender Studies (Master)	Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands
2012/02/01 - 2012/06/30	February-June	Educational Sciences (Bachelor)	Panepistemio Patron, Greece
2012/02/01 - 2012/06/30	February-June	Educational Sciences (Bachelor)	Panepistemio Patron, Greece

Interview (tv / radio show)

	Program	Topic
2022/05/05 - 2022/05/05	Parlafousi with Paola Revenioti	Greek Homonationalism

Distinctions

Award

2023	Horizon Europe European Commission Third Framework Programme, Belgium
2019	Horizon Europe European Commission Third Framework Programme, Belgium
2018	CCHR (Cultures, Citizenship, and Human Rights Grant) Universiteit Utrecht Departement Geschiedenis en Kunstgeschiedenis, Netherlands
2013	A.G. Leventis Foundation's Grant For Postgraduate Studies Idryma A G Leventi, Cyprus
2013	State Scholarships Foundation for doctoral studies Idryma Kratikon Ypotrophio, Greece