Two vacancies for Postdoctoral Researchers at the Department of Social and Political Sciences
January 8, 2022Department of Social and Political Sciences, Univ. of Cyprus: Faculty vacancy in Sociology
February 18, 2022
The Department of Social and Political Sciences of the Univ. of Cyprus welcomes three new faculty members, Lecturer Costas Constantinides in its Journalism program and Lecturers Andria Christofidou and Adam Gemar in Sociology.
Costas Constandinides is Lecturer in Audiovisual Media in the Department of Social and Political Sciences (Journalism Program) at the University of Cyprus. He holds a Doctorate degree from the University of Reading, Department of Film Theatre and Television and he was previously a faculty member in the Department of Communications at the University of Nicosia. His research focuses on the move of fictional and factual content across media, and screen media practices within the context of transnational screen cultures. He is the author of From Film Adaptation to Post-celluloid Adaptation (Continuum, 2010; Bloomsbury, 2012) and co-editor of Cypriot Cinemas: Memory, Conflict and Identity in the Margins of Europe (Bloomsbury, 2014). He is a member of the European Film Academy.
Andria Christofidou is a Sociologist working on gender and sexuality, resistance and reflexivity. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Glasgow. Prior to her academic appointment she worked as a post-doctoral researcher at Cyprus University of Technology and the University of Cyprus, where she also taught in the Sociology degree.
Before joining the department, Adam Gemar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at HSE University in Moscow, Russia, and received degrees from Durham University (PhD-2020), the London School of Economics (MSc), Yale University (MA), and Fordham University (BS). A sociologist by discipline, Adam’s research interests primary focus around social inequalities, particularly social class, but also gender, race, and geography, and how they manifest in the areas of culture, sport, religion, and education.
Photo (left): Antonis Ellinas (department chair), Andria Christofidou, Adam Gemar, Costas Constandinides.
