Nikos Michailidis

Dr. Nikos Michailidis received his PhD from the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University in 2016. He has studied Political Science and International Relations at Panteion University, Athens (B.A) and at Bosphorous University in Istanbul (M.A). Dr. Michailidis is a sociocultural anthropologist specializing in political anthropology. His broader research interests are arts and politics, ethnicity, Hellenic cultural heritage in the eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea, social memory, material culture, humans and technology, political theory, social movements, cultural diplomacy and soft power, European studies, Greece, U.S.A, Turkey. He is currently working on a book monograph about music and ethnic identities in northeastern Turkey, to be published by Indiana University Press. The book analyzes the revival of Pontian-Greek music in contemporary Turkey, its ethnic and sociopolitical repercussions. He has presented papers in various academic conferences.

He has two forthcoming articles in edited volumes in Greece: “Searching for Roots: Memory and the Remaking of Self in northeastern Turkey” in Tsimpiridou, Foteini (ed), Kathimas Anatole. Kritiki Publications (Fall 2019), and “Turkish, Black Sea or Pontian Music? The Meaning of Trebizond Music and Cultural Belonging in Thessaloniki”, in Theodosiou and Kallimopoulou (eds) Music in Greece. Pedio Publications (Spring 2020).

Dr. Michailidis has taught at Rutgers and Princeton universities. Courses taught include Music and Politics (Freshman Seminar), Global Mediterranean, Music and Society in Greece. He is currently teaching three courses entitled: Introduction to Anthropology, Global Mediterranean, and Wonders of Greece. In Spring 2020, besides the introductory course to anthropology, he will teach: Empires and Nation States: Southeast Europe from the 18th to the 21st Century (history and culture, area studies), and Democracy in the World (political anthropology).

New UMSL faculty member 2019.