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Charis Boutieri is a Reader in Social Anthropology at King’s College London, associated with the Department of European & International Studies and the Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. She holds the PARC Chair (2023-2024) and was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2021-2022). Her research focuses on the social life of revolution, democracy, and public spheres in North Africa and the Middle East, with a particular emphasis on Tunisia’s post-2011 political dynamics.
Education: BA from the University of Oxford, MSc from LSE, PhD from Princeton University.
Her work examines the interplay between democracy promotion, civic activism, and neoliberal expansion. Key projects include the Leverhulme Trust-funded study on Tunisia’s post-revolutionary democracy and the ERC-funded exploration of migrant communities’ public engagement in Britain. She has also co-led collaborative projects like the King’s Together Fund’s “Justice in non-Liberal Polities” and the Takhayyul ERC project on imagination in Muslim societies.
Awards include the British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship and Leverhulme Trust Fellowship. She contributes to academic leadership as former Associate Editor of the Journal of North African Studies and former Treasurer of the AAA Middle East Section.
Teaching focuses on political anthropology, including courses on states, citizenship, and lived democracy. Current research includes a UK-based ERC project on migrant communities’ public interactions and a Wenner-Gren Foundation workshop on Mediterranean coexistence.
Her lab affiliations include the European Politics and Society Research Group, fostering discussions on contemporary Europe and European identities.
