In July 2011 I received my PhD in International Politics and Ethnic Conflict at Queen’s University, Belfast. My thesis, Unearthing the Truth: The Politics of Exhumations in Spain and Cyprus was fully funded by Queen’s University. Before joining Queen’s, I received an MScEcon in International Politics (with distinction) from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. The primary thrust of my research is comparative politics, with particular emphasis on comparative post-conflict democratization, transitional justice, grassroots movements, riots and symbolic politics. I am currently working on two overlapping lines of research. The first investigates why societies that have successfully democratized at the end of a conflict have delayed exhumations for missing persons. The second sheds light on the remarkably different political and social reactions to the sovereign debt crisis in Greece, Spain and Portugal.
Articles
Explaining Prolonged Silences in Transitional Justice: the disappeared in Cyprus and Spain, Comparative Political Studies (2013)
The article examines why some post-conflict societies defer the recovery of those who forcibly disappeared...
Delinkage Processes and Grassroots Movements in Transitional Justice (forthcoming), Cooperation and Conflict (2012)
Transitional justice literature has highlighted a negative relationship between enforced disappearances and reconciliation in post-conflict...
Cultures of Rioting and Anti-Systemic Politics in Southern Europe (with Katia Andronikidou), West European Politics (2012)
The article investigates why despite similar background conditions in Greece and Spain, the former country...
Non-Apologies and prolonged silences in post-conflict settings: the case of postcolonial Cyprus (with Kahtleen Ireton), Time and Society (special issue on 'Memory and Historical Injustice') (2012)
Despite the growing use of apologies in post-conflict settings, cases of non-apology remain unaddressed and...
Delaying Truth Recovery for Missing Persons (with Neophytos G. Loizides), Nations and Nationalism (2011)
The fate of missing persons is a central issue in post-conflict societies facing truth recovery...
Unpublished Papers
Majoritarian vs. Consensus Democracies in the Eurozone Debacle (with Neophytos G. Loizides) (2013)
Since 2008, the European sovereign debt crisis has presented unprecedented challenges to modern democracies, particularly...