Education:
PhD, School of Humanities, Hellenic Open University;
MSc/MA, History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens;
BA/BS, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Athens.
Dissertation title: Science Communication in Late 20th Century Greece: Public Intersections of Gender and Knowledge Circulation in the Feminist Birth Control Movements (in English, available here,
https://freader.ekt.gr/eadd/index.php?doc=52660&lang=el )
Publications:
For books:
• Chordaki, E. (2025). Making Sense of Knowledge: Feminist Epistemologies in the Greek Birth Control Movement (1974–1986). Cambridge UP.
• Chordaki, E. (Ed.). Queer(ing) Science, Queer(ing) Knowledge (in progress, under contract). Palgrave Macmillan (USA).
For articles:
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
1. Chordaki, E., (2026). Undoing the tough stomach. Feminist countercultures and rest as reorientations in Academia). European Journal of Women’s Studies’ Open Forum, 33(2).
2. Zarifi, M., Chordaki E., Arapostathis, S., Tsatsaroni E., Ninos G., Patiniotis, M. (2026). Between Knowing and Acting: How Experts Constructed and Communicated Uncertainty During the COVID-19 pandemic. Sociological Research Online.
3. Chordaki, E., Zarifi, M. (2025). Feeling Uncertainty: Gender, Knowledge, and Emotions in Times of Crisis. JCOM 24(06), A05.
4. Brito, M., Cain, Fr., Chordaki, E., Kasdovasili, S., Stavridi, K. (2025). “To Play is to Know: Pushing the Boundaries of Doing Academia”. History of Intellectual Culture 4, pp. 259-276
5. Chordaki, E. (2025). Science, Gender, and Atheism in the Greek Context. The Historical Review / La Revue Historique, 21(1), 15–33.
6. Chordaki, E. (2025). The Collective and Historical Self: Vulnerable Epistemologies, Affective Politics, and Intergenerational Herstories. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, Vol. 2.
7. Chordaki, E. (2023). Abortion as “Termination” and the Silent Practice of Curettage for Induced Abortion. Feministiqa, Vol. 6.
8. Chordaki, E. (2022). Science Communication Herstories: Reflecting on the Greek Feminist Birth Control Movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Research for All, Vol. 6(1).
9. Chordaki, E. (2021). Demystifying the Natural – Reclaiming Estrangement: Feminisms and Technoscience in the Digital Age. Automaton, Vol. 1(1).
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
1. Chordaki, E. (forthcoming). “Introduction.” In E. Chordaki (Ed.), Queer(ing) Science, Queer(ing) Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan.
2. Chordaki, E. (forthcoming). “Bodies at Risk, Theories at Stake: Epistemic Discomfort and the Politics of Knowing Otherwise.” In E. Chordaki (Ed.), Queer(ing) Science, Queer(ing) Knowledge. Palgrave Macmillan.
3. Chordaki, E., Zarifi, M., Patiniotis, M., Arapostathis, S., Tsatsaroni, E., Ninos, G. (forthcoming). Fragmented Interdisciplinarities and Neglected Transdisciplinarities: The Case of the Covid-19 Pandemic in Greece. In: Call for Interferences: Science, Medicine and Technology (edited volume).
4. Chordaki, E. (forthcoming). “We Write from Our Hearts”: Incomplete Theories and the Fight Against Theory. In: Group Political Epistemologies in Central and Eastern Europe (Eds.), Gendering Epistemologies – Gender and Situated Knowledge Perspectives from CESE Europe, De Gruyter.
5. Chordaki, E. (2025). The Valuable “s”: Publics and Counterpublics of Abortion and Contraception in Greece in the Late 20th Century. In: Amelia Bonea, Irina Nastasă-Matei (Eds.), Negotiating In/visibility: Women, Science, Engineering and Medicine in the Twentieth Century, Manchester UP.
6. Chordaki, E. (2024). Experiential and Medical Expertise: Gender and Knowledge in the Greek Feminist Birth Control Movement, c. 1974–1986. In: Tracey Loughran, Hannah Froom, Kate Mahoney, and Daisy Payling (Eds.), Everyday Health, Embodiment, and Selfhood since 1950, Manchester UP.
7. Chordaki, E., Lazopoulou, A. (2023). Reclaiming Our Health: Greek Feminist Birth Control Movements as a Form of Women’s Engagement with Science. In: C.C. Harry & G.N. Vlachakis (Eds.), Exploring the Contributions of Women in the History of Philosophy, Science, and Literature Throughout Time, Vol. 20, Springer, Cham.
8. Chordaki, E., Stavridi, K. (2021). Neither Ba Nor Bo: B@wie in Feminist Space-Time. In: Anna Karastathi & Bessie Polykarpou (Eds.), Let Me Tell You: Feminist, Lesbian, and Queer Narratives of the Post-Dictatorship Period, pp. 55–66, FAC Press.
9. Chordaki, E. (2020). Hidden Paths – Unconventional Practices: A Her-story of the Circulation of Medical Knowledge in the Late Twentieth Century. In: G.N. Vlachakis, K. Tampakis (Eds.), Science and Literature: Poetry and Prose, Digital Edition 08, National Hellenic Research Foundation.
10. Chordaki, E. (2020). Cyberfeminism: Gender and Technoscience in the Digital Age. In: Manolis Patiniotis (Ed.), Introduction to Digital Studies, pp. 283–292, Ropi Publications.
Translated Articles
1. Gupta, S., Bolin, H. Virality: Against the Standard Unit of Life. Translated by: Argyriou, V., Chatzimbekeiari, F.K., Chordaki, E., Kalpakidis, Ch., Kristalis, Ch., Ninos, G., Sakkas, G., Tsatsaroni, E. (in alphabetical order). Automaton, Vol. 1(1), 2021.
2. Braidotti, R. (2003). Cyberfeminism with a Difference. In: M. Patiniotis (Ed.), translated by E. Chordaki, Introduction to Digital Studies, pp. 293–316, Ropi Publications.
Conferences (Selected):
• Chordaki, E. “Epistemic Transgression in the Long Metapolitefsi: Deviance, Knowledge, and Sense-Making in Post-Authoritarian Greece”. 29th MGSA Symosium, University of Chicago, Oct. 2026.
• Chordaki, E. “Affective Epistemologies of Antimilima: Feminist Knowledgescapes and Activist Science in Post-Dictatorial Greece (1974–1986).” Joint Meeting of the History of Science Society and the European Society for the History of Science, University of Edinburgh, UK, July 2026.
• Chordaki, E. “Network as a Critical Feminist Methodology of Doing History.” Workshop Reproductive Politics. Networks. Knowledge, Institut d’Història de la Ciència, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain, June 2026.
• Chordaki, E. “Bodies at Risk, Theories at Stake: Exploring the Concept of Epistemic Discomfort.” Workshop Queer(ing) Science, Queer(ing) Knowledge, Princeton University, USA, February 2025.
• Chordaki, E., Zarifi, M. “Becoming Credible: Communicating (Un)certainty in Times of Crisis.” 11th International Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, Spain, September 2024.
• Chordaki, E. “The Struggle of the Archive and the Archive of a Struggle: Dirty Histories and Messy Epistemologies of the Metapolitefsi.” 28th Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Princeton University, USA, 2024.
• Chordaki, E. “Grounding Our Commons: Towards a Feminist/Queer Science Communication.” Public Communication of Science and Technology Conference, Rotterdam, the Netherlands, April 2023.
• Chordaki, E. “Locating Science to Silence: Gender and Knowledge through the Politics of Silence.” Conference Gendering Epistemologies, Czech Republic, 2022.
• Chordaki, E. “The Valuable ‘s’: Publics and Counterpublics of Abortion and Contraception in Late 20th-Century Greece.” Conference Hidden Histories: Women and Science in the 20th Century, 2021.
• Chordaki, E. “Boundary HSMs in the Greek Context: The Development of Experiential Expertise Between 1970–1980.” Conference Gender, Subjectivity and ‘Everyday Health’ in the Post-1945 World, UK, 2020.
• Chordaki, E., Lazopoulou, A. “Women’s Engagement with Science: The Case of Greek Feminist Movements for Abortion and Contraception in the 1970s.” International Academy of the History of Science, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Greece, September 2019.
Scientific/Organising Committee Membership
2027 Organizer: Queer(ing) Science and Knowledge II: Experimental methodologies and critical concepts [Keynote Speaker: Prof. Heather Love, University of Pennsylvania], Research Center for the Humanities; National Hellenic Research Foundation. (May 2027 – 15 invited participants)
2026 Organiser: Queer(ing) Science and Knowledge Experimental methodologies and critical concepts, Online (26 June 2026–10 participants) [Invited Keynote Speaker: Prof. Elena Tzelepis, University of Thessaly]
2026 Lead Organiser (together with Prof. Efi Gazi, Kostis Kornetis, Theodore Arabatzis): International Conference Sciences, Knowledge and Society in the late 20th century Greece, Princeton Athens Center, Greece (15-17 January 2026 – 24 invited participants) [Invited Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michael Gordin, Princeton University]
2025 Scientific Committee Member: Conference Knowledge Networks in Times of Crisis, University of Athens (9–10 October 2025 – 40 participants)
2025 Organiser: Workshop Queer(ing) Science, Queer(ing) Knowledge, Princeton University, USA (6 participants)
2024 Scientific Committee Member: 16th International Graduate Conference in Modern Greek Studies, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, USA (6 participants)
2024 Lead Organiser: Sciences, Ideologies, and Religions in 20th-Century Central, Eastern, Southeastern Europe. Co-organisers: National Hellenic Research Foundation, University of Erfurt, Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe, University of Vienna, Czech Academy of Sciences (15 participants)
Discussant and panel organisation
-Chordaki, E. (Panel Organizer). Deviants, Transgressors, Kleftes: Listening, Seeing, and Sense•Making in 20th Century Greece, 29th MGSA Symoposioum, University of Illinois Chicago, 15-18 Oct. 2026.
-Chordaki, E. (Discussant). The role of emotions in crisis management, Interdisciplinary Conference Knowledge Networks in Crisis Conditions. University of Athens, 9-10 October 2025.
-Chordaki, E. (Discussant). Reproductive (In)justice: Romani Women and the Politics of Reproduction Across Europe. Panteion University, 14 December 2024.
-Chordaki, E. (Discussant/Mentor), 16th International Graduate Student Conference in Modern Greek Studies, Princeton University, 26 April 2024.
-Chordaki, E. (Panel Organiser). Networks of Knowledge Transmission in Times of Crises, 11th Conference of the European Society for the History of Science, 4–7 September 2024, Spain.
-Chordaki, E. (Chair). History of Science Meets Intellectual History – BLOCK 2: Alternative Sources in History of Science and Non-Formal Communication, 17–19 July 2023, Prague.
-Chordaki, E. (Chair). Gender and Emotional Labour, 5th INDL Conference: Features and Futures of Digital Labour, 2–5 November 2022, Greece.
Fellowships/ Awards/ Distinctions:
2026 Visiting Research Fellow (Lund University, Sweden)
2026 Research Fellow (Research Center for the Humanities, Greece)
2025 PathC Summer Session 2025 (Travel Fellowship, Princeton Athens Center)
2025 PathC Winter Session 2025 (Travel Fellowship, Princeton Athens Center)
2024 PathC Summer Session 2024 (Travel Fellowship, Princeton Athens Center)
2024 PathC Winter Session 2024 (Travel Fellowship, Princeton Athens Center)
2023 Mary Seeger O’Boyle Postdoctoral Fellowship (Princeton University, USA)
2021 Wellcome Trust Fund (Support for the 16th International PCST Conference)
2019 PhD Fellowship, Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, Grant No. 873