Prof. Eftihia Voutira

Dr. Eftihia Voutira (B.A. Philosophy, The University of Chicago; MA. PhD. Harvard University) and M.Phil. Ph.D. Social Anthropology, (University of Cambridge). She is Professor of Anthropology of Forced Migration at the Department of Balkan, Slavonic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.

She has done fieldwork and published extensively on the Greek diaspora in the former Soviet Union, refugee issues and the political economy of humanitarian assistance in Africa and the Balkans. She is the author of Conflict Resolution: A Cautionary Tale (with Shaun A. Whishaw Brown; Uppsala, Sweden:  Nordiska Afrikainstitutet 1995) and Anthropology in International Humanitarian Emergencies (with Jean Benoist; European Commission, Brussels, Network on Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA) July 1994, and Anthropology , Network on Humanitarian Assistance (NOHA) 2nd edition, Brussels 1998), Between Past and Present. Ethnographies of the Postsocialist World. Kritiki, Athens 2007 and The Right to Return and the Meaning of Home. A Post Soviet Diaspora Becoming European?, Lit- Verlag (in press).

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