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Nikolaos Olma is an Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean. His research focuses on post-socialist transformations, environmental anthropology, and the intersections of infrastructure, knowledge production, and social inequality. He holds a PhD from the University of Copenhagen (2018), where his doctoral work examined embodied memory through urban infrastructure in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. Current research centers on uranium mining legacies in Kyrgyzstan and the politics of environmental toxicity.
Olma has taught at institutions including Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg and Freie Universität Berlin, and conducted postdoctoral research at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and the Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient. His fieldwork spans Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, and Poland, with publications addressing informality, urban ethnography, and industrial landscapes.
Research Interests:
- Economic and environmental anthropology
- Social change and post-socialism
- Extractivism and resource politics
- Knowledge/ignorance dynamics
- Pollution and toxicity studies
- Informal mobility systems
Awards: 2022 Irene Hilgers Memorial Prize for Monotonous Motorscapes: Uzbekistan’s Car Industry and the Consolidation of a Post-Socialist Shortage Economy.
Research Networks: Participates in the University of Vienna’s ANTHEFT project and the CityIndustries network. Serves on the coordination group of the EASA AnthEcon network.
