FAC is run by a collective of nine people:
Anna Carastathis is a feminist political theorist. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from McGill University; M.Sc. in Gender Studies from the University of the Aegean; and B.A. (Honours) in Philosophy from the University of Alberta. Anna is the author of Intersectionality: Origins, Contestations, Horizons (University of Nebraska Press, 2016), and co-author of Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020). Anna is a yoga practitioner (since 1999) and teacher (since 2013, certified by the Los Angeles Centre for Yoga) in community spaces.
Anna is a co-director of FAC research, editor of FAC press, and co-coordinates the research areas Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice; Feminist No Borders Struggles.
Email: anna@feministresearch.org
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Myrto Tsilimpounidi is a social researcher and photographer. They received their Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Sussex; M.A. in critical global studies from the University of Exeter, and B.Sc. in economics and development studies. Their research focuses on the interface between urbanism, culture, and innovative methodologies. Myrto is currently principal investigator of TransCity: Space, Gender, and Transitions in Athens, based at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. They are the author of Sociology of Crisis: Visualising Urban Austerity (Routledge, 2017); co-author of Reproducing Refugees: Photographia of a Crisis (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020); and the co-editor of Remapping Crisis: A Guide to Athens (Zero Books, 2014) and Street Art & Graffiti: Reading, Writing & Representing the City (Routledge, 2017). Myrto is happy near the sea, and dreams of a feminist kite-surf collective.
Myrto is a co-director of FAC research and coordinates the research area Sexualities and Genders: Queer and Transfeminist Perspectives.
Email: myrto@feministresearch.org
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Aila Spathopoulou is a human geographer. She is currently a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Geography at Durham University, where she is researching the spatio-temporalities of deportation across Europe in light of the EU Pact on Migration and Asylum. Previously, she was a postdoc at the department of Politics and International Relations at Goldsmiths University London. Aila completed her PhD dissertation (titled Moving to, Moving Back to the Border: Migrants’ Uneven Geographies in/to the Hotspot Regime Governing ‘Greece’) in Geography at King’s College University of London, where she focused on processes of bordering and resistance through and against the hotspot regime in Greece. She is interested in understanding how so-called ‘migration management’ approaches, such as the ‘hotspot approach’, along with the reshaping of space and time, reconfigure peoples’ relationships with one another and with their own self. Her forthcoming monograph reflects on how her own intimate relationships with people during the years of 2015-2019 were contained within the ‘refugee crisis’ script–a script that along with processes of ‘othering’, ‘welcomes’ performances of toxic masculinity–and on whether things could have turned out differently.
Aila co-coordinates the research area Feminist No Borders Struggles.
Email: aila@feministresearch.org
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Deanna Dadusc is a Senior Lecturer in Criminology at the University of Brighton, where she teaches and researches on the criminalisation of migration and of practices of resistance to the border regime. She is also a member of the Watch the Med – Alarm Phone activist network, a hotline in solidarity with migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Deanna obtained a PhD in Criminology and Sociology in a co-tutelle between the University of Kent (UK) School of Social Policy, Sociology, and Social Research, and the University of Utrecht (NL), Faculty of Law. Her PhD thesis is entitled The Micropolitics of Criminalisation: Power, Resistance, and the Amsterdam Squatting Movement. Deanna is currently co-authoring a book on Borders, Repression and Resistance: the criminalisation of migrants’ solidarity (with Eleni Dimou and Pierpaolo Mudu, Routledge, forthcoming).
Deanna co-coordinates the research area Feminist No Borders Struggles.
Email: deanna@feministresearch.org
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Camille Gendrot is a PhD Candidate in Public International Law at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne and a research fellow of the Institut Convergences des Migrations. Her research is focussed on the mobilities rights of persons in West Africa, the legal processes of facilitation and criminalisation of mobilities and the impacts of the international system on the construction of regional rights. Camille is also part of the Watch the Med–Alarm Phone activist network, with a particular focus on the Western Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic. She recently participated in the coordination of a chapter of the Atlas des migrations dans le monde : libertés de circulation, frontières, inégalités (with Alizée Dauchy, under the direction of Sara Casella-Colombeau. Migreurop, 2022, Armand Colin).
Camille co-coordinates the research area Feminist No Borders Struggles.
Email: camille@feministresearch.org
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Valentina Azarova is a researcher and practitioner centring movement law, transformative justice and trauma-informed approaches to international and interpersonal violence. She has published widely on the operation of international law in the Palestine/Israel context, international law of/on violence and ir/responsibility, and legal mobilisation in social justice struggles. Valentina is a co-founder and member of the de:border collective, and of the Emergent Justice Collective, and has worked with social movements on the arms trade and militarism, transformative conflict accountability and reparations, and migration justice. They co-founded and co-directed the Al-Quds Bard Human Rights Program at Al-Quds University (2009-2013) and taught on the MA in Human Rights and Democracy at Birzeit University (2013-2015), and since held research and teaching posts at academic institutions in Lebanon, Turkey, Germany and the UK. They hold a PhD in law from NUI Galway’s Irish Centre for Human Rights.
Valentina co-coordinates the research area Intersectionality, Abolition, and Transformative Justice.
Email: valentina@feministresearch.org
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Lia Smaragda Foukis is a performance and visual artist. Her artistic practice involves performance art and self portrait photography/videography to explore themes of humour, cringe, political correctness, gender, and transfeminism. Lia received her MA in performance making from Goldsmiths College, University of London and her BA in photography and audiovisual arts from the University of West Attica. She has been training in painting and music since childhood, and later in dance. Lia was a core member of CUNTemporary, overseeing various aspects of the public programmes including stage management, technical coordination of conferences and exhibitions as well as DJing. They are a founding member of 34es queer arts collective and a member of Aptaliko music company.
Lia co-coordinates the Research Area Art as Research: Visual, Performative, and Documentary Knowledges.
Email: lia@feministresearch.org
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Carmen Zografou (MA in filmmaking) is a creative filmmaker and video producer. Embarking from a journalistic and communications background (B.A. in media and communications from the National University of Athens), she moved on to do an M.A. in filmmaking at Kingston University London. She has directed and produced short films and worked in various fiction films and documentaries. Most recently, she edited the documentary My Katines (2019) about the first Autonomous Women’s Group in Thessaloniki. She has a particular interest in exploring stories told from a feminist perspective and by filmmakers from various backgrounds and points of view. She believes that everyone should be able to express themselves through art, and the means to do it should be free and accessible. She has a kick for theatre, music, and performance art, and plays the piano, the guitar, and the bouzouki.
Carmen is the Managing Director of FAC research and co-coordinates the research area Art As Research: Visual, Performative, and Documentary Knowledges.
Email: carmen@feministresearch.org
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Marleno Nika is an artist and a linguist (B.A. in Greek philology from the National University of Athens), who participates in creating artistic and political spaces for migrants and queer people; as well as in making fanzines, appreciating and playing with poetry, and taking photos. At FAC, Marleno mostly works with/at/in/for the Feminist Library and participates in conversations, assemblies and chit-chats.
Marleno co-coordinates the research area Feminist No Borders Struggles.
Email: info@feministresearch.org
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