Despina Nazou, is a social anthropologist, postdoctoral fellow at the Department of History
and Archeology of the University of Crete on the topic ‘ARCHAEOLOGY, TOURISM AND
ISLAND COMMUNITIES: Reception, Conceptualisation and Appropriation of Archaeological
Record in Island Greece’
Her research focuses on Delos Rineia, Mykonos, Meganisi, Lefkada (2017-2021) and is
funded by the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation with the Department of
History and Archeology of the University of Crete as the implementing body.
She is a graduate of the Department of Philosophy and Social Studies of the School of
Philosophy of the University of Crete, she holds a PhD degree in Tourism and local identities
from the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean
(Mytilene). Her first postdoctoral research (2003-2006) focused on women's work in
individual, family and cooperative enterprises in tourism, in Mykonos and Lesvos (funded
postdoctoral research by the PYTHAGORAS European Project, supported by the University
of the Aegean).
Areas of scientific interest. Τhe interpretation of many dimensions of the tourist
phenomenon in the Greek cultural context. Researches on the social / cultural change in
areas with tourist economies and also on issues