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Dr. Konstantinos Kalantzis is a Lecturer in Anthropology and Visual Culture at the Department of Anthropology, University College London (UCL). His academic journey includes a PhD in Anthropology from UCL (2010), an MSc in Visual Anthropology from the University of Oxford (2005), and a BA in History from the University of Crete (2004). He also serves as an Honorary Research Fellow at UCL.
- PhD in Anthropology, UCL (2010)
- MSc in Visual Anthropology, University of Oxford (2005)
- BA in History, University of Crete (2004)
Kalantzis specializes in the intersection of visual culture, anthropology, and political imagination, with a focus on Greece and the Mediterranean. His research explores colonialism/postcolonialism, photography, ethnographic film, materiality, psychoanalysis, and rural societies. He has contributed to critical debates on crisis representation, Occidentalism, and the role of photography in documenting social imaginaries.
His publications span ethnographic books, journal articles, and exhibitions, including Tradition in the Frame (2019) and the Citizens of Photography series (2021–2022). Recent work like "The Indigenous Sublime" (2023) and "Slippery Delight" (2022) examines visual ambiguity and pleasure in crisis contexts, while earlier articles analyze the debt crisis, tourism, and ethnographic film.
He has received an ERC grant for the Citizens of Photography project, which investigates the camera's role in political imagination. His publications frequently address themes of displacement, crisis, and cultural representation through visual methods.
