Evi Chatzipanagiotidou

Evi Chatzipanagiotidou is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen's University Belfast, affiliated with the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice. Her research focuses on conflict and peacebuilding, migration, diasporas, and the politics of memory and trauma. She has conducted fieldwork in Cyprus, Greece, Turkey, and the UK, emphasizing transnational and trans-border methodologies.

Her key work, Diasporic Futures (2025), challenges diaspora/homeland binaries by exploring temporalities of hope and conflict in Cypriot diasporas. Funded projects include studies on refugee labor in Turkey and truth commissions in The Gambia. She teaches courses on ethnographic methods, conflict studies, and migration, and supervises PhD projects on global issues like refugee health, border politics, and peacebuilding.

Dr Chatzipanagiotidou has received awards including the British Academy grants and the Cyprus PIO Scholarship. She advises on media projects and collaborates internationally, contributing to UN Sustainable Development Goals on peace, justice, and inclusive societies.