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Professor of Anthropology
PhD, Social Anthropology
Oxford University, 1987
Institute for Subjectivity and the Cultural Imagination: Research Group on Historical Consciousnes
Biography
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
Campbell Thomson
Eric Orlowski
Lucy Lopata
Zora Kostadinova [SSEES]
Ioanna Manoussaki-Adamopoulou
Alexia Liakounakou, awarded 2020
Clark Jensen, awarded 2020
Marco Benoit Carbone [CMII], awarded 2018
Joshua Burraway, awarded 2017
Maria Iancu, awarded 2016
Cathryn Townsend, awarded 2015
Alexandra Antohin, awarded 2014
Manuela Pellegrino, awarded 2013
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
 | The Varieties of Historical Experience, Stephan Palmié and Charles Stewart (eds), Routledge 2019. |
 | Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece, University of Chicago Press, 2017. |
 | Ethnographies of Austerity: Temporality, Crisis and Affect in Southern Europe (edited by Daniel Knight and Charles Stewart). Routledge, 2017. |
 | Charles Stewart (ed.), Colonizing the Greek Mind? The Reception of Western Psychotherapeutics in Greece. Athens: The American College of Greece, 2014. |
 | Dreaming and Historical Consciousness in Island Greece. Harvard University Press, 2012. |
 | Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture. Princeton Univ Press [Greek edition, Athens: Taxideftis, 2008]
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- Downloadable Publications
'The Symbolism of the Exotiká', Semiotic Review (Special Issue 2: Monsters), 2014 
''. Pp. 9-34 in C. Stewart (ed.), Colonizing the Greek Mind? The Reception of Western Psychotherapeutics in Greece. Athens: DEREE -- The American College of Greece, 2014. 
Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory. Walnut Creek, CA: Left Coast Press. 2007
Indicators of Esteem
- 2017-20 Visiting Professor, Department of Anthropology, UCLA
- 2015 Nicholas Christopher Lecture, Harvard University
- 2014 Outstanding Academic Title, Choice
- 2013 John U. Nef Lecture, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago
- 2011 Venizelos Visiting Professor, Deree College, Athens
- 2010 Evans-Pritchard Lectures, All Souls College, Oxford
- Editorial Board, History and Anthropology
- Senior Editor, Dreaming
- Academic Advisory Board, Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF)
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