Eirini Papadaki

Eirini Papadaki is a social anthropologist and an assistant professor at the School of History and Archaeology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Her research and publications focus on the politics of adoption, parenthood, and marriage in contemporary Greece. Her research interests include the anthropology of kinship, gender, sexuality, bureaucracy, the state, intimacy, and care. She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the universities of Edinburgh, Bremen, and the Aegean. Her writings have been published in international academic journals and collective volumes. She is the author of the book Politics of Kinship: Adoption in Contemporary Greece (Alexandria, 2021) and has co-edited (with Janet Carsten, Hsiao-Chiao Chiu, Siobhan Magee, and Koreen Reece) the book Marriage in Past, Present, and Future Tense (UCL Press, 2021).