Education:
-PhD Candidate in Social Anthropology, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences;
-MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, Panteion University;
-BA in History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Dissertation title:
“Live in Greece – Work Globally”: An ethnography of digital labour, everyday (re)production and transnational struggle in Greece’s global call center industry
Publications:
Dinev, I., Andretta, M., Imperatore, P., Vangeel, N., Lenaerts, K., Panzaru, C., Negoita, G., Korkontzelou, C., Kofti, D., Makelova, R., Kostov, L. (2025). ‘’Labour unrest in the context of multiple crises: a comparative perspective of Europe’’. Social Movement Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1080/14742837.2025.2562879
Conferences:
-Korkontzelou, C. “We are not numbers, we make the numbers”: Algorithmic surveillance, KPIs and labour value in call center work”, Conference Sociological and Anthropological Approaches to Labour, Panteion University/EKKE/University of Crete, Athens, 8-9 May 2026.
-Korkontzelou, C. “High-tech offices, malls and the making of an urban “cybertariat” in post-socialist Sofia”. International Conference “Capitalist Transformations in Eastern and Central Europe”, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 21-24 May 2025.
-Korkontzelou, C. “The Intermediation of Labour Mobility and the Meanings of “Slavery” among Migrant Call Centres Workers in Greece”, Winter School on Global History and Anthropology of Labour, Max Weber Foundation for Southeast Asian Studies, New Delhi, India, 21-28 February 2025.
-Korkontzelou, C. “Call Centers: Challenges in the ethnographic approach of space in the “digital factory”. Conference of the Greek Association of Social Anthropologists, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, 20-23 May 2024.
Grants/ Fellowships/ Awards:
-Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, 2026.
-3-year scholarship for Doctoral studies in Greece, A.G. Leventis Foundation, 2024-2027.
-1-year scholarship for MA studies in Greece, Lilian Voudouri Foundation, 2021.
Teaching Experience:
Teaching Assistant, Panteion University
Courses : Anthropology of Labour and Global Subcontracting (Postgraduate), Historical and Anthropological Approaches to Labour (Undergraduate)