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Dr Stavroula Pipyrou

Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1960

Email

sp78@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 1, School 6

Location

United Colleges

Office hours

Monday 2pm-4pm

 

Research areas

Stavroula Pipyrou is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of ���ϳԹ��� and Founding Director of the . She has conducted long-term ethnographic research with minorities in Italy since 2006. In her first monograph “” (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016) she presents a theory of “Fearless Governance” – overlapping and sometimes contradictory systems of power, authority, and relational networks that enable the minority to achieve political representation at the intersection of local, national, and global encounters. Her second monograph "Lurking Cold War: Life Through Historical Communion" (Berghahn, 2025) considers the continued affects of the Cold War on material, aesthetic, and intergenerational relations in Italy and Greece.

Her Leverhulme project (2014-17), “An Intergenerational Analysis of Forced Child-relocation in Italy”, looked at the silenced stories of displacement in Cold War (1950s) South Italy shedding light on a hitherto overlooked historico-political period of turmoil. Child displacement is directly associated with historical macro-silences and the lack of systematic ethnological studies on the events that took place during the Cold War period in Italy. Violent displacements that remained silenced in the post-Cold War years have shaped contemporary European politics in a profound manner.

Stavroula is currently writing on Cold War legacies in Italy and Greece. She has also conducted research in Brazil and Scotland on minority access to education. She is a Fellow 2022-27 and Founding Editor of the interdisciplinary series, in which she has co-edited a volume "" (Routledge, 2025).

Centre for Minorities Research (CMR). A unique initiative that brings together interdisciplinary expertise from an outstanding pool of staff from across seven Schools at the University of ���ϳԹ���. Centre members are committed to exploring intersectionality in the ‘everyday lives’ of minorities, both in Scotland and internationally. Promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in the University and wider community is central to all our activities. The arranges public talks, holds networking events, organises outreach activities, collaborates on funding applications and policy-oriented research. Contact Stavroula Pipyrou for more information.

Research Interests / Supervision Topics: Political Anthropology, Minorities, Displacement, Equality and Diversity, Children, Governance, Civil Society, Violence and Crime, Cold War, Silence, Performance and Dance, Death, Italy, Greece, Brazil, Turkey

Books Authored:

Pipyrou, S. 2025. Lurking Cold War: Life Through Historical Communion. New York/Oxford: Berghahn.

Montañés Jiménez, A., Ferreira Marinelli, C. and S. Pipyrou. (eds). 2025. . London: Routledge.

Pipyrou, S. 2016. . Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.

Edited Collections:

Bond, E. and Pipyrou, S. (eds.). 2023. . Journal of Modern Italian Studies 28(4)

Pipyrou, S. and A. Sorge. (eds.). 2021. . Anthropological Forum 31(3)

Pipyrou, S. (ed.). 2018. // vs // #MeToo is a legitimate form of social justice. Special section of HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8(3)

Projects:

2019-20: ODA Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) "Capturing new education models among indigenous and quilombla minorities in Brazil".

2017-19: Gender Diversity and Inclusion (GDI) grant for the project ‘International Minority Education: Opening New Collaborative Research Possibilities’ for best-practice knowledge exchange between the University of ���ϳԹ��� and Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (Brazil).

2014-17: Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, “An intergenerational analysis of forced child-relocation in Italy”.

2015-17: ESRC Urgency Grant, “Transitory Lives: An Anthropological Research of the Migration Crisis in the Mediterranean”.

2015-16: British Academy (British School of Athens) and Ecole française d’Athènes “Trust” seminar and research project (with Maria Couroucli and Daniel M. Knight).

2013-14: Carnegie Trust Grant "Art and Energy: Understanding Attitudes to Renewables in Scotland".

PhD supervision

• Rory Cassie
• Christina Chalache
• Cameron Dickie
• Connor Eckersall
• Kit Kelly
• Andreas Lekkos
• Dillys Daniela Del Rosario Rodríguez Neira
• Matteo Valenzasca
• Yizhi Yao

Selected publications

• Pipyrou, S., 2025, Oxford: Berghahn. (New anthropologies of Europe: perspectives and provocations)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Pipyrou, S., Aug 2016, Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. 256 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Pipyrou, S., Montanes Jimenez, A. & Ferreira Marinelli, C., 11 Jul 2025, Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group. (Routledge advances in minority studies)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Pipyrou, S. (Editor) & Bond, E. F. (Editor), 1 Aug 2023, In: Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 28, 4, p. 403-516

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Open access
  Pipyrou, S. & Sorge, A., 2021, In: Anthropological Forum. 31, 3, p. 225-240 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Pipyrou, S. (Editor), 21 Dec 2018, In: HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. 8, 3

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Open access
  Pipyrou, S., 30 Jan 2021, In: Anthropological Quarterly. 93, 3 (Summer 2020), p. 429-459

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Pipyrou, S., 1 Mar 2024, Porous becomings: anthropological engagements with Michel Serres. Bandak, A. & Knight, D. M. (eds.). Durham, NC: Duke University Press, p. 215-232 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access
  Pipyrou, S., 11 Apr 2017, The Conversation.

  Research output: Contribution to specialist publication › Article

• Pipyrou, S., 14 Aug 2014, In: American Ethnologist. 41, 3, p. 532-546 15 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review