I joined the Department of Social Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in 2014 as an Assistant Professor of Criminology, and was promoted to a tenured Associate Professorship in 2017. Between 2021-2024, I was Deputy Head (Teaching) of LSE's Department of Social Policy, and between 2019-2024, Director of LSE's Mannheim Centre for Criminology. Currently, I am also Co-Coordinator of the Society, Identity & Rights Cluster of LSE's Hellenic Observatory, and I am affiliated with the Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Theory Forum, which is based in LSE's Department of Law.
I was previously a Chancellor's Fellow in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, following a Lectureship in Criminology at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, where I was also Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice.
Born and raised in Athens, Greece, I received a B.A. in Sociology (with Senior Honours) from Deree College, The American College of Greece, and an M.Phil. in Criminological Research and a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge (where I was also awarded the Manuel López-Rey Graduate Prize for my performance on the M.Phil. programme, and the Nigel Walker Prize for my PhD dissertation). My postgraduate studies were funded by competitively awarded grants from St. John's College (Benefactors' Scholarship), the Economic and Social Research Council, the Cambridge European Trust, and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology (Manuel López-Rey Scholarship Fund, elected twice).
I have been elected to visiting positions at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and the Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. In recognition of my research, I have received the European Society of Criminology's 2022 European Journal of Criminology Best Article Award, the 2020 Gerhard O.W. Mueller Award by the International Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the 2016 Adam Podgòrecki Prize by the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociology of Law, the 2015 Outstanding Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award by the Critical Criminal Justice Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the 2013 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award by the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. In 2014, my guest-edited special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on 'Prison Realities: Views from Around the World' won the Best Public Intellectual Special Issue Award of the American Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Modern Language Association.
Between 2015-2019, I was an Editor and Book Review Editor of the British Journal of Criminology, having served on the journal's Editorial Board since 2010. Between 2021-2023, I was an Associate Editor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, the official journal of the British Society of Criminology. I currently serve on the Advisory Panel of LSE Press, the International Associate Editorial Board of Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology, the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Criminology (having also been an Associate Editor of the journal between 2011 and 2014) and Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement, the editorial advisory boards of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the international editorial board of Delito y Sociedad. I am also a member of the Editorial Board of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology series (Oxford University Press), as well as of the Palgrave Series on Crime, Media, Culture. In 2021, I was elected a member of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Peer Review College.
With Sappho Xenakis, Reader in Criminology and International Relations at Birkbeck Law School, University of London, I am the co-founder and co-director of the Ikarian Centre for Social and Political Research, which seeks to promote dialogue and co-operation between scholars working on aspects of socio-political research related to Greece.
I was previously a Chancellor's Fellow in Law and Co-Director of the Centre for Law and Society at the School of Law, University of Edinburgh, following a Lectureship in Criminology at the School of Law, Queen Mary, University of London, where I was also Deputy Director of the Centre for Criminal Justice.
Born and raised in Athens, Greece, I received a B.A. in Sociology (with Senior Honours) from Deree College, The American College of Greece, and an M.Phil. in Criminological Research and a Ph.D. in Criminology from the University of Cambridge (where I was also awarded the Manuel López-Rey Graduate Prize for my performance on the M.Phil. programme, and the Nigel Walker Prize for my PhD dissertation). My postgraduate studies were funded by competitively awarded grants from St. John's College (Benefactors' Scholarship), the Economic and Social Research Council, the Cambridge European Trust, and the Cambridge Institute of Criminology (Manuel López-Rey Scholarship Fund, elected twice).
I have been elected to visiting positions at the Centre for the Study of Law and Society, School of Law, University of California, Berkeley, and the Centre for Criminology, Faculty of Law, University of Oxford. In recognition of my research, I have received the European Society of Criminology's 2022 European Journal of Criminology Best Article Award, the 2020 Gerhard O.W. Mueller Award by the International Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the 2016 Adam Podgòrecki Prize by the International Sociological Association's Research Committee on Sociology of Law, the 2015 Outstanding Critical Criminal Justice Scholar Award by the Critical Criminal Justice Section of the American Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, and the 2013 Critical Criminologist of the Year Award by the Division on Critical Criminology of the American Society of Criminology. In 2014, my guest-edited special issue of the South Atlantic Quarterly on 'Prison Realities: Views from Around the World' won the Best Public Intellectual Special Issue Award of the American Council of Editors of Learned Journals, Modern Language Association.
Between 2015-2019, I was an Editor and Book Review Editor of the British Journal of Criminology, having served on the journal's Editorial Board since 2010. Between 2021-2023, I was an Associate Editor of Criminology & Criminal Justice, the official journal of the British Society of Criminology. I currently serve on the Advisory Panel of LSE Press, the International Associate Editorial Board of Punishment & Society: The International Journal of Penology, the Editorial Boards of the European Journal of Criminology (having also been an Associate Editor of the journal between 2011 and 2014) and Incarceration: An International Journal of Imprisonment, Detention and Coercive Confinement, the editorial advisory boards of Social Justice: A Journal of Crime, Conflict & World Order, Current Issues in Criminal Justice, and the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice, and the international editorial board of Delito y Sociedad. I am also a member of the Editorial Board of the Clarendon Studies in Criminology series (Oxford University Press), as well as of the Palgrave Series on Crime, Media, Culture. In 2021, I was elected a member of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowships (FLF) Peer Review College.
With Sappho Xenakis, Reader in Criminology and International Relations at Birkbeck Law School, University of London, I am the co-founder and co-director of the Ikarian Centre for Social and Political Research, which seeks to promote dialogue and co-operation between scholars working on aspects of socio-political research related to Greece.