Emmanouil Varvounis#
| Membership Number: | 7384 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2026 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GREECE |
| Homepage(s): | https://hs.duth.gr/professors/βαρβούνης-εμμανουήλ/ |
| ORCID: | 0000-0003-2647-4223 |
| Publication Link: | https://he.duth.gr/culturalstudies/wp-content/uploads/2025/12/LIST-OF-PUBLICATIONS-OF-MANOLIS-VARVOUNIS.pdf |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2025 - 2028 Member of the National Committee for the Intagible Cultural Heritage, Ministry of Culture / Greece
- 2024 - 2027 Director of the Postgraduate Programme “Cultural Studies: Modern Hellenism and the Balkans”, Department of Humanities of Democritus University of Thrace / Greece
- 2021 - 2025 Dean of the School of Classics and Humanities / Democritus University of Thrace / Greece
- 2023 - 2025 Secretary General of the "Hellenic Folklore Society"
- 2020 - 2025 Member of Scientific Committee of «Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics» (GLOCAL), at University of London (School of Oriental and African Studies)
- 2016 - 2020 Head of the Department of History and Ethnology / School of Classical Studies and Humanities / Democritus University of Thrace / Greece
- 2015 - 2025 Director of the "Laboratory of Folklore and Social Anthropology" / School of Classics and Humanities / Democritus University of Thrace
- 2013 - 2025 Member of the Board of “Institute for Folk Culture”, of the Philosophical School / University of Athens
- 2010 - 2013 Member of Research Committee of Democritus University of Thrace (2010 - 2013)
- 1992 - 2025 Professor of Folklore in the Department of History and Ethnology / School of Classics and Humanities / Democritus Univeristy of Thrace
Fields of Scholarship
- Intagible cultural heritage
- Religious folklore
- Modern popular religious rituals
- Digital folklore
- Folklore studies
- Customs and habits
- Social transformations in popular culture
- Cultural studies
Honours and Awards
- 2020 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of the Aegean (Greece)
- 2020 Award of Εxcellent Academic Teacher of Democritus University of Thrace
- 2020 Gold Medal of "Centro de Estudios Bizantinos, Neogriegos y Chipriotas" of the Universidad de Granada (Spain)
- 2019 Doctor Honoris Causa of the University of Bucharest (Romania)
- 2018 Ordinary Member of “Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea” (European Academy of Sciences and Arts) (Austria)
- 2017 Honorary Member of Facultăţii de Limbi şi Literaturi Străine / Departamentul de Filologie Clasica şi Neogreacă [Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures / Classical and Modern Greek Philology Department] / University of Bucharest (Romania)
- 2017 Honorary Research Fellow, Institute of Ethnography, Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA) (Serbia)
- 2015 "Academic Corresponent a l’ estranger" of the “Real Academia de Buenas Letras / Reial Academia de Bones Lletres” of Barcelona (Spain)
- 2010 Award of the Academy of Athens, the National Academy of Greece
