Education:
-PhD, Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, National Technical University of Athens;
-MA in History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Interuniversity Graduate Program, Department of History and Philosophy of Science (University of Athens) & Department of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, (National Technical University of Athens);
-BA in History and Archaeology, School of Humanities, University of Athens.
Dissertation title:
Road network and Car Culture in Greece, 1930-1980
Publications
Books
-(2024). Road network and Car Culture in Greece, 1940-1980. Space, mobilities, technologies. Ypsilon Books.
-Kostas Theologou – Alexia – Sofia Papazafeiropoulou. (2024). Sociology of Technology and Urban Civilization. Ellinoekdotiki.
Articles and Chapter in Collective Volumes
-Alexia – Sofia Papazafeiropoulou, Dimitris Tscouchlis, Aristotle Tympas. (2025). “Marginal mobilities: Three-wheeled vehicles in Greece from the 1940s to the present”. History and Technology. V. 41. Pp. 76-92.
-(2025). “Motorsports and tourism in Greece during 1950-1970”. Greek Sports and Social Sciences. V. 4. Pp. 87-101.
-(2025). “Tarde on the road: Monadology and Sociology and the contemporary analyses of mobility.” In K. Theologou – G. Arambatzis (Eds.). Gabriel Tarde on Technology, Politics and the Crowd. National Technical University of Athens – Department of Humanities, Social Sciences, and Law. Pp: 106-115.
-(2024). “Sociotechnical equalities and inequalities in the post-truth age: The case of remote work in Greece during the COVID-19 pandemic”, in Emine Onculer Yayalar, Melike Sahinol (Eds.), Science, technology and society for a post-truth age: Comparative dialogues on reflexivity. Vernon Press. Pp. 281-309.
-(2022). “Athens during 1950-1970. City as a sociotechnical system and automobility as a crisis factor”. in K. Gaganakis, et al. (eds) European cities in crisis. From the Middle Ages to the present. Herodotus. Pp. 527-550.
-(2020) “Eve at the Steering Wheel: Female Representations in Greek Motoring Magazines from the 1950s to the 1980s”, ICON: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology 25, no. 2. Pp.103-130.
-(2019) “Modernityscapes, ‘Sweet Consumer Nightmares’ and Clumsy Chauffeurines: Automobility in the Greek Cinema of the 1960s”, Film Studies, Volume 21. Pp: 22-37.
-Alexia Sofia Papazafeiropoulou – Konstantinos Vattes – Katerina Zacharopoulou, “Technology for Travelling Pleasures and Experiences: Transportation and the Construction of Post-war Greece as a Tourist Destination”, (2017) in Tympas A. – Arapostathis S. (Eds.), History of Technology (Special Issue: History of Technology in Greece, from the Early 19th to 21st Century), Vol. 33. Pp. 299-326
-(2016) “The Affirmation of Semi-periphery: A Case Study on Greek Automobility, 1930 – 2000”, in M. Moraglio – S. Fari (Eds), Peripheral Flows. A Historical Perspective on Mobilities Between Cores and Fringes, Cambridge Scholar Publishing, Newcastle. Pp:.28 – 50.
-(2016). Historiography Tensions in Car Culture Signum, Annual Review on Humanities and Social Sciences – NTUA. V. 2-3. Pp. 25 – 35.
-(2016) “Consumption and Automobility. Aspects of private consumption in Greece, during 1950-1970”. Bulletin of Economic History, National Hellenic Research Foundation. https://hdoisto.gr/gr/activities/history-seminar/
-(2015) “Automobility and Tinkering Cultures in Twentieth History Europe” LabEx. Écrire une Histore Nouvelle de l’ Europe, Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris-Sorbonne and Nantes universities http://labex-ehne.fr/2017/06/09/automobile-tinkering-cultures-in-twentieth-century-europe/).
-(2015). “The role of automobility in the middle class leisure culture, 1950-1970”, in K. Dimadis (Ed.). Proceedings of the 5th International Conference of Modern Greek Studies. V. 1. Pp. 367 – 388.
-(2012) “Technology Users as Empirically trained Mechanics: Assembly and Decoration of Improvised Vehicles in Greece during and after World War II”, ICON Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology. V. 18. Pp: 157 – 178.
Conferences:
-“Tourism and Automobility. The reconstruction of Greek landscape as a tourist product.” 1st Greek Conference of Environmental History, University of Athens – Greek Association of Environmental History, Athens, 13-15/12/2025.
-“The geography of modernization: The competition of automobility and railways and the reconstruction of the Greek territory, 1950-1970.” Geography and History. Connections, mobilities, ideas, Association of Greek Historians, Athens, 19-21/9/2025.
-“The Greek Engineers and the spatial reconstruction of Athens, during 1950-1970”, Attica in Crisis, Greek Association of Architects – National University of Athens, Athens, 27/9 – 2/10/2017.
-“Tarde’s influence on modern theories of mobility and space by John Urry and Tim Cresswell.” Imitation, Masses and Technology: Theorizing after Gabriel Tarde, National Technical University of Athens – University of Athens, 28-29/9/2017.
-“Gazing at the West. The transnational orientations of Balkan mobility infrastructure during 1950 – 1960”, Borders and Technology, 8th International Conference of Tensions of Europe, Tensions of Europe-University of Athens, Athens 7-10/9/2017.
-“Roads and automobiles during the Greek Dictatorship”, Greek Dictatorship, 50 years later, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens 20-22/4/2017.
-“Athens and automobility during 1950-1980. The crisis as an ambivalent modernization”. European cities in crisis from the 12th century to the present, University of Athens, Athens, 2-3/2/2017.
-“Car Culture during the 1960s. The social category of mobile consumers”. The Hermoupolis Seminars, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Syros, 4-12/7/2016.
-“Car and the City: traffic congestion and the redefinition of urban space through automobility in Athens, during 1950-1980”. 43ο International Conference of the International Committee for the History of Technology, Technology, Innovation and Sustainability, ICOHTEC, Porto 26-30/7/2016.
-Alexia – Sofia Papazafeiropoulou, Dimitris Tsouchlis, Aristotle Tympas, “Driving to work: Versions of legal and illegal tricycle use in contemporary Greece”. Conference of the International Association of Traffic, Transport and Mobility, T2M, Naples 14 – 17/9/2015.
-Alexia-Sofia Papazafeiropoulou, Frank Schipper, Maria Luisa Sousa, “Sustainability versus Accessibility: The controversial aspects of Mobility”, Technology and Environment 7ο International Conference of Tensions of Europe, Tensions of Europe – ΚΤΗ, Stockholm, 3-6/9/2015.
-Alexia-Sofia Papazafeiropoulou, Konstantinos Vattes, Katerina Zacharopoulou, “Visions of technology, travel and tourism in post-World War II Greece”, Conference of the Association of Study and diffusion of History of Science and Technology – University of Athens, Athens, 28-30/3/2015.
-“The role of automobility in middle class leisure culture, 1950-1970”, 5th International Conference of the Association of Modern Greek Studies, Continuities and Discontinuities in Modern Greek World (1204-2014): Economy, Society, History and Literature, Association of the Modern Greek Studies, Thessaloniki, 2-5/10/2014.
-“Semi-periphery in transition: The typology of the Greek state’s identification in relation with automobility from the 1930s to the 2000s”, Technology in Times of Transition, 41ο Conference of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC–University of Brasov, Brasov, 29/7– 2/8/2014.
-Chatzikonstantinou, E., Karampatsos, C., & Papazafeiropoulou, A.S. “Tourist passages to antiquities and beaches. Road constructions and distractions in twentieth century Attica”, Democracy and Technology, 6o International Conference of Tensions of Europe, Tensions of Europe – University of Sorbonne, Paris 19 – 21/9/2013.
-“The antagonism of railways and automobiles in Greece from the 1930s to the 1960s as a case of a controversial intermodality”, History and Future of Intermodal Mobilities, Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, T2M-University of Madrid, Madrid 15-18/11/2012.
-“Technology users as amateur mechanics: The case of the construction and decoration of extemporaneous automobiles in WWII and postwar Greece”, Technology, the Arts and Industrial Culture”, 39ο Conference of the International Committee for the History of Technology, ICOHTEC – University of Barcelona, 10-14/7/2012.
-“Car Exhibitions in 1960’s Greek Culture”, Practicing the Science, Performing the Social International Conference of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, EASST- University of Trento, Trento, 2-4/9/2010.
-“Automobility and Tinkering”, Technology and Democracy: Quo Vadis?, International Workshop of Tensions of Europe, Chios, 2-3/10/2014.
-“Mobilities and STS”, The Hermoupolis Seminars, National Hellenic Research Foundation – Infostrag, Syros, 11 – 13/7/2014.
-“Mobility and the Centre – Periphery Dichotomy: An attempt to conceptualize automobility in Greece regarding its geopolitical and geocultural position from the 1930s to the 1960s”, International Workshop – Periphery and Mobility, University of Granada, Granada 13/11/2013.
-“The co-evolution of automobiles’ significations and drivers’ identities within the mobility context of the 1960’s Greek culture”, The Passenger: Mobility in Modernity, International Workshop Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, T2M – Technical University of Berlin, 30/9– 6/10/2011.
-“The automobile culture as a context of mobility and communications in Athens during the period 1950 – 1970”, Mobility and Information Technologies: A long – time perspective, International Workshop, University of Sorbonne – University of Eindhoven – Cité des Telecoms, Plemeur – Bodou. 12-16/9/2011.
Grants/ Fellowships/ Awards:
Heraclitus II Research Funding Program, European Union Social Fund (Operational Program Education and lifelong learning), 2012-2015.
Teaching Experience:
-2024 to the present: General High schools – Secondary Education Office of Pireaus (History, Modern Greek, Ancient Greek).
-2015 – 2024: National Technical University of Athens, School of Mechanical Engineers – School of Naval Engineers (Sociology of Technology and Urban Civilization).