G – L
Eva Garmpi is a Greek attorney at law and associate in Ballas-Pelecanos & Associates Law Firm in Athens. She studied law in Athens’ law school and then concluded her postgraduate studies in International and Commercial law at the University of Kent in U.K. My studies were basically oriented towards Banking and Intellectual Property law. She has researched copyright issues and copyright’s implications upon artistic creation and cultural upgrade, which constituted the topic of my final dissertation.
Alex Gibson is a visual artist and computer programmer researching online artistic collaboration for a Master of Fine Art (MFA) at the University of Melbourne (VCA).
Bryce is currently pursuing a doctorate in the Social and Political Thought Programme at York University (Toronto, Canada). His research interests include
city spaces, personal narrative, film/video, music, and the chaos involved in being a graduate student.
Amir Goldberg is a Ph.D. student in sociology at Princeton University. He is interested in the intersection between technology and culture, and the ways in which our so-called ‘network age’ is reflected in organizational changes and patterns of work, leisure and personal relationships. He holds an MA from Goldsmiths College, London, where his thesis explored the emerging iPod culture using the concepts of complexity theory. Prior to joining Princeton, Amir worked, amongst other things, as a telecoms consultant, a software programmer, and a writer for the Israeli daily newspaper Ha’aretz.
David Held is the Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science, at the London School of Economics and is a widely acclaimed voice on issues of globalisation. He is the author of numerous books including the Global Covenant: The Social Democratic Alternative to the Washington Consensus (Polity, 2004).
Helen Kambouri is a research fellow in the Centre of social antropology and social policy at Panteion university, Athens. She has finished her PhD at the London School of Economics on the topic of migration and national identity in Greece.
Konstantin Kastrissianakis has studied anthropology, economics and politics at SOAS, London and Sciences-Po, Paris and has worked in international organizations in Europe, the Middle-East and Africa. He is currently completing a Masters in Housing and Urbanism at the Architectural Association in London.
Matthias C. Kettemann is research assistant at the Institute of International Law and International Relations at the University of Graz, Austria, where he works in a project on multi-stakeholder participation and human rights in the information society. He holds a Magister iuris (University of Graz, 2006) degree and a Certificat de droit transnational (University of Geneva, 2005) and is currently pursuing doctoral studies at the University of Graz on the role of the individual in international law. See: http://www.uni-graz.at/vrewww/deutsch/mitarbeiter/kettemann.pdf.
Since 2004 Hara Kouki is a research student in History and Civilization at the European University Institute in Florence. Her work engages in the general issue of the history of human rights in the post war world. The case study being the monitoring of abuses in the Soviet Union during the Cold War, she has conducted research in Moscow, Amsterdam, London and Paris. She graduated in history and archaeology from the University of Athens (2001), while she also holds a master in Cinema and History from the University of Kent (2003).
Nikos Koutsiaras studied economics at the Athens University of Economics and Business (B.Sc) and agricultural economics at Wye College, University of London (M.Sc). He received his Ph.D from the University of Athens. He is now lecturer at the University of Athens (Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration) and senior research fellow at ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy).
Marcus Leonard currently administers Internet servers and applications at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He also has an academic background in Cultural Studies, with a focus in semiotics and language.
Sabina Leonelli is a finishing PhD student in Philosophy, Free University Amsterdam. She is the co-founder of the Graduate Journal of Social Science. She is the author of Infrared Metaphysics: Theory-Choice and the Ontology of Radiation (forthcoming).
Leslie López is a Lecturer in Journalism and Latin American Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz, specializing in cultural politics and social movements in Mexico. She is completing her dissertation on independent radio in Mexico as an example of an emergent alternative political economy in Latin America.