Dimitris Antoniou

Faculty Research Fellow

Address:  47, Wellington Square, Oxford, OX1 2JF

Email:   dimitris.antoniou@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk

Research

Dimitris Antoniou has studied in faculties of Orthodox theology, Anthropology and Oriental studies. His interdisciplinary research, influenced by new journalism, focuses on unrealized government initiatives, the imaginary built environment and the role of fantasy in Greek politics. He has recently completed an ethnographic study of an unbuilt mosque in the suburbs of Athens. His current work explores the Táma tou Éthnous (The Nation’s Vow), a church that the Greek military regime of 1967 attempted to construct in fulfilment of a 19th century vow. Working with informants from across the political spectrum, Dimitris uncovers memories of a largely unspoken past and narrates a controversial story of government failure and junta sympathizers.

Teaching

Introduction to Modern Greece; The Remembrance of National History (with Kostas Skordyles); Literary Approaches to the Anthropology of Greece

Select Publications

2010 The Mosque that wasn’t there: Ethnographic Elaborations on Orthodox Conceptions of Sacrifice. In Orthodox Christianity in 21st Century Greece. Roudometof, Victor and Vasilios Makrides, eds. Pp. 155-174. Farnham, Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate.

2005 Western Thracian Muslims in Athens: From Economic Migration to Religious Organization. Balkanologie 4(1-2): 79-101.

As editor and translator: 2000 P.J. Vatikiotis. Islam and the State. Athens: Papazisis.