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E-mail: c.stewart@ucl.ac.uk

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Office hours: Wednesday 10-11, or by appointment
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PhD, Social Anthropology
Oxford University, 1987

MRes Tutor


Biography

photo_3 Charles Stewart studied Classics at Brandeis University where he wrote his undergraduate dissertation on the Greek-speakers of southern Italy. The experience of field research collecting materials for this dissertation motivated a switch to anthropology. He conducted doctoral research on the local practice of Orthodox Christianity on the Greek island of Naxos, and subsequent periods of field research on Naxos and in Athens and Thessaloniki. Charles taught Modern Greek language and literature at Harvard University and social anthropology at Brunel University before coming to UCL, initially as Lecturer in Ancient History and Social Anthropology with a joint appointment in History. His current research interests include the study of syncretism, creolization, dreaming, the anthropology of religion and topics in the borderland between anthropology and history such as continuity/change, temporality and historicity.

Research Interests

  • History and Anthropology
  • Ethnography of Historicity and Temporality
  • Anthropology of Religion
  • Dreaming, Psychological Anthropology
  • Theories of Cultural Mixture: Syncretism, Creolization
  • Ethnography of Greece, Balkans, Europe

PhD Students

Marco Benoit Carbone [Department of Greek and Latin]
Maria Iancu
Lorna Mumford
Cathryn Townsend
Athena Meselidou
Alexandra Antohin
Filotas Ditsas
Manuela Pellegrino
Galina Oustinova-Stjepanovic, awarded 2011
Anna Apostolidou, awarded 2010
Konstantinos Kalantzis, awarded 2010
Eugenia Roussou, awarded 2010
Graham Bull, awarded 2009
Costantino Pes, awarded 2008 
Aybil Goker, awarded 2007
Constantinos Tsikkos, awarded 2007
Elia Petridou, awarded 2001
Chang-Kwo Tan, awarded 2001
Eleana Yalouri, awarded 2000
Jason Davies (Ancient History), awarded 1999

Recent Publications

diaspora ‘Forget Homi! Creolization, Omogéneia and the Greek Diaspora’, Diaspora, 15(2006): 61-88. [http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/dsp/summary/v015/15.1.stewart.html]
p_studies ‘Creolization, Hybridity, Syncretism, Mixture’, Portuguese Studies. 27(2011): 48-55. [http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/mhra/pst/2011/00000027/00000001/art00007]
demons_and_the_devil_m2 Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture. Princeton Univ Press [Greek edition, Athens: Taxideftis, 2008]

Preface to Greek Edition
English version
Le Diable The Devil in Modern Greece
English version in pdf
creolization_m Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 2007

Read here excerpt from the book.
   

Forthcoming Publications

`Fields in Dreams: Anxiety, Experience and the Limits of Social Constructionism in Greek Dream Narratives’, in S. Oberhelman (ed.), Dreams, Healing and Medicine in Greece: From Antiquity to the Present.  London: Ashgate.

Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. Harvard University Press, 2012.

‘Dreams in Antiquity’, forthcoming In D. Barrett and P. McNamara (Eds.), Encyclopedia of sleep and dreams. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood Publishers.

‘Belief’ forthcoming in Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th ed. [co-authored with John North]

‘Indigenous Archaeologies and the Greek State’ (in Greek) forthcoming in A. Papataxiarchis (ed) Revisiting the Political, Athens: Alexandreia.

Indicators of Esteem

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