Dimitris is Professor at Vrije University Amsterdam since 2015, where he holds the core departmental Chair of Social Anthropology and Sociology of Development, he is Director of Research in Anthropology and co-directs the lab on Infrastructures, Sustainability and Commons.  

He is an anthropologist of Europe with expertise on the Balkans,  Eastern Europe and the Mediterranean. Since 2004 he is developing a more global study of infrastructures (incl. labour) and the state, first with the project 'An anthropology of the road', which was focused geographically on Albania and Eastern Europe. Later he continued that line of research with the project infra-demos,  which studied infrastructures and democracy and was funded by the Dutch Research Council (Vidi-Research Talent grant.) In 2023 continued this line of research with a Stimulation grant from the Dutch Ministry of Education with his project Infrastrutcures and Sustainability: A Global Studies Perspective. Additionally to infrastructures, since 2008 he is working on an anthropology of crisis, grassroots movements and the city, with the project crisis-scapes,  which was funded with an ESRC-Future Research Leaders. The synthesis of his work on grassroot movements and infrastructures from a global pespective was crystalised with infra-demos  that he continues until today. 

Books 

See Dimitris' Per­sonal Web­site

 Research Grants 

• 2023-2025 Stimulation Grant for Infrastructure and Sustainability: A Global Studies perspective  
• 2017-2022  VIDI Innovative Research Grant for Infra-Demos
• 2017-2018  PRECARIAT: Deregulation of Labour Market in Greece of crisis
• 2012 - 2014:ESRC/Fu­ture Re­search Lead­ers grant for the pro­ject The City at a Time of Cri­sis: Tran­for­ma­tions of Pub­lic Spaces in Athens (cri­sis-cape.net) 
• 2005 - 2006: Marie Curie Fel­low­ship in So­cial His­tory of Eu­rope for the pro­ject So­cial Change, Ma­te­r­ial Cul­ture and Mi­gra­tion: The Case of Al­ban­ian Mi­gra­tion to Greece and to Italy.
• 2004 - 2008: Hel­lenic Re­pub­lic Fel­low­ship (IKY ) for the PhD pro­ject An An­thro­pol­ogy of the Road.

PhD students

I cur­rently su­per­vise

• Baris Esser, Catastrophising and Emergency rhetorics after the earthquacke in Turckey and Syria
• Robert Dillema, Becoming in the calisthenic court: Ambition and expectations in South East Amsterdam
• Antonis Alexandridis Border and Filtration
• Christos Giovanopoulos, Solidarity and Emergence of new infrastructural networks.
• Giorgos Serdentakis Food, Cooking and community under conditions of crisis.

In the past su­per­vised:

• Tarryn Frankish The ‘born-free generation’: Narrating memory in post-Apartheid South Africa (Witwatersrand Uni. Johannesburg 2023)
• Bahoz Aras Federalism in Kurdistan (VU, 2023)
• Elena Bonanini: Reshaping humanitarian intervention in Greece: Exploring everyday practices in Tilos and Athens (VU 2022)
• Alexan­der Dun­lap Re­new­ing De­struc­tion: Wind Energy Development in Oax­aca, Mex­ico (VU, 2017)
• Jacken Wa­ters (ESRC funded) Producing space and reproducing capital in London's Olympic Park: Qn ethnography of actually-existing abstract space (Sussex Uni, 2016)
• Chet Fran­sch "Wood, carved by the knife of cir­cum­stance..."?: Cape Rapists and Rape in South Africa, c. 1910-1980 (VU, 2016)

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