Who We Are
Maria Angeli, Research Associate
Maria Angeli is an associate researcher at the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies. She holds a BA degree in Sociology from Panteion University in Athens and a MA degree in Gender and Media from Sussex University in the UK. Her master’s dissertation was based on intimate relations and whether they are becoming more equal and democratic or not. As part of her internship she has worked for the Greek Foundation in the Genealogy department. Her research interests include: gender media representation, media audiences, gender and politics and intimate relations.
Josie Christodoulou, Policy Coordinator
Josie Christodoulou joined the Mediterranean Institute of Gender Studies as a Project Officer 2004. She is currently the policy coordinator at MIGS as well as coordinator of various projects related to gender and migration, integration, and trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual and labour exploitation. She monitors migration and integration legislation as well as legislation and actions to combat Trafficking in Human Beings on both national and EU levels and works to influence these from a feminist perspective. Josie served as a member of the Group of Experts on Action against Trafficking in Human Beings (GRETA) of the Council of Europe from 2009- May 2011, and is currently a member of the of the Group of Experts on Trafficking in Human Beings of the Euoprean Commission. Josie is also the Country Coordinator for Cyprus for the European Website for Integration of the Migration Policy Group, and a member of the Sub- committee on Trafficking in Women of the National Machinery for Women’s Rights.
Josie Christodoulou holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology from the University of Indianapolis in the U.S.A and a graduate degree on Racial Equality Studies and Youth Justice Probation and Criminology from Middlesex University in the U.K.
Her research interests include issues of gender and migration/integration; and trafficking in women for the purpose of sexual and labour exploitation.
Email: josie@medinstgenderstudies.org
Project Involvement in: Integration of Female Migrant Domestic Workers / Mapping the Realities of Trafficking Women in Cyprus
Georgina Christou, Project Coordinator
Georgina holds a BA in Law from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and a Masters in Human Rights from the University of Malta (scholarship by the European Commission) as well as a Masters in European Society from University College London (UCL). Her area of specialization during her MA at UCL has been social/cultural anthropology especially in relation to issues of memory and nationalism in the Balkans and the Mediterranean basin. During her studies she conducted research at the Irish Center for Human Rights and has also worked on issues concerning gender stereotyping, religion and mourning in the Balkan region. Her research interests include cultural constructions of gender roles and national identity in the Mediterranean, politico-historical use of religious narratives, forms of preservation of social memory as well as the expression of the above through popular culture.
Email: georgina@medinstgenderstudies.org
Project Involvement in: Daphne II-Secondary Education Schools and Education in Values, Daphne III – Perspective, Young Migrant Women in Secondary Education, Youth Alert
Miranda Christou, Senior Research Associate
Miranda Christou is a Lecturer in Sociology of Education (Department of Education, University of Cyprus) and holds a doctorate in Education (Harvard University, Ed.D. 2002). She is also a board member of the Mediterranean Institute for Gender Studies and her research interests include the political role of memory and history, the construction of knowledge on youth and youth cultures and the representations of young people through the discourses of globalization. Miranda is also interested in how schools and educational institutions in general shape the construction of sexuality and gender and has also worked as a research advisor for the projects “Gender Equality: Responsibility of Both Sexes” and “Facilitating Equality through Education” where she facilitated training for teachers on gender stereotypes in education.
Project Involvement in: Daphne II-Secondary Education Schools and Education in Values
