Othon Alexandrakis

Associate Professor
Chair, Anthropology
Office: Vari Hall, 2050
Phone: (416)736-2100 Ext: x40139
Email: oalexand@yorku.ca
Accepting New Graduate Students
Ph.D. – Rice University (2010) M.A. – University of Western Ontario (2003) B.A. – University of Western Ontario (2001) Following his doctoral studies Othon joined the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2011). His teaching, publications and research focus on: citizenship, migration, emergent and contested identities, governance, cities, childhood, Greece and Europe. His broader academic interests include ethnographic methods/writing, discourse publics, and memory.
Alexandrakis's research and publications explore cultural processes of change, micro-social responses to conditions of shared hardship, the politics of knowledge, transnational migration and childhoods, and ethnographic methods. He has over fifteen years of ethnographic research experience in Greece, primarily among undocumented migrants, anti-establishment youth, the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies), and unaccompanied refugee children. Alexandrakis is currently engaged in two research projects, the first as single-investigator exploring political agency among unaccompanied migrant youth titled "Critical Humanitarianism: Precarious Pathways and Disruptive Sanctuary in Greece", and the second as co-investigator on an international interdisciplinary research team examining how liminal life shapes migrant child well-being and developmental trajectories titled "Exploring the Impact of Protracted Displacement: War-affected Refuge Children in Greece and Italy. He has published numerous articles, is the editor of "Impulse to Act: A new Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice" (2016), and author of "Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility" (2022).
Degrees
Ph.D., Rice University (2010)M.A., University of Western Ontario (2003)
B.A., University of Western Ontario (2001)
Research Interests
Upcoming Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
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Fall 2025 | AP/ANTH4450 3.0 | A | The Anthropology of the City | SEMR |
Winter 2026 | GS/ANTH6011 3.0 | M | TheoreticalConceptsInEthnographicInquiry | SEMR |
Ph.D. – Rice University (2010) M.A. – University of Western Ontario (2003) B.A. – University of Western Ontario (2001) Following his doctoral studies Othon joined the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow (2010-2011). His teaching, publications and research focus on: citizenship, migration, emergent and contested identities, governance, cities, childhood, Greece and Europe. His broader academic interests include ethnographic methods/writing, discourse publics, and memory.
Alexandrakis's research and publications explore cultural processes of change, micro-social responses to conditions of shared hardship, the politics of knowledge, transnational migration and childhoods, and ethnographic methods. He has over fifteen years of ethnographic research experience in Greece, primarily among undocumented migrants, anti-establishment youth, the Roma community (commonly known as Gypsies), and unaccompanied refugee children. Alexandrakis is currently engaged in two research projects, the first as single-investigator exploring political agency among unaccompanied migrant youth titled "Critical Humanitarianism: Precarious Pathways and Disruptive Sanctuary in Greece", and the second as co-investigator on an international interdisciplinary research team examining how liminal life shapes migrant child well-being and developmental trajectories titled "Exploring the Impact of Protracted Displacement: War-affected Refuge Children in Greece and Italy. He has published numerous articles, is the editor of "Impulse to Act: A new Anthropology of Resistance and Social Justice" (2016), and author of "Radical Resilience: Athenian Topographies of Precarity and Possibility" (2022).
Degrees
Ph.D., Rice University (2010)M.A., University of Western Ontario (2003)
B.A., University of Western Ontario (2001)
Research Interests
All Publications
Upcoming Courses
Term | Course Number | Section | Title | Type |
---|---|---|---|---|
Fall 2025 | AP/ANTH4450 3.0 | A | The Anthropology of the City | SEMR |
Winter 2026 | GS/ANTH6011 3.0 | M | TheoreticalConceptsInEthnographicInquiry | SEMR |