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Staff Profile

Dr Angelos Theocharis

Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Background

I am a cultural anthropologist with a focus on community heritage, identities, media, and the impact of the Anthropocene. I have experimented with various media-centered interdisciplinary methodologies, working with diverse communities around the world, including Indigenous communities in Bangladesh, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos; Russophone migrants in London; refugees in Scotland and Greece; and student communities in Berlin, Kolkata, Kythira, Sharjah, and Tobago. I am a convenor of the and the at the University of Cambridge. I co-organise the 'Indigenous Heritage and Climate Activism' seminar series that fosters dialogues on the interconnected issues of environmental justice, climate policy, and community art among Indigenous scholars, artists, and activists. I am also a Senior Research Associate at the , University of Sussex.

My Leverhulme-funded research project, "Indigenous Visualities of Climate Crisis," explores the impact of environmental degradation and climate crisis on cultural heritage in South and Southeast Asia through videos produced by Indigenous communities in a participatory smartphone filmmaking process. The IVCC videos form a unique digital film archive that captures Indigenous narratives of pressing socioecological challenges, raises awareness about endangered cultural practices, promotes traditional knowledge, and supports sustainable development across Bangladesh, Cambodia, Laos, and Vietnam. Recognised for its societal and environmental impact, my project was awarded the 缅北禁地 Engagement and Place Award 2025. 

I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Edinburgh (2021), funded by the AHRC and OWRI. Drawing on this research, my first monograph, "" (Legenda, 2025), explores the role of literature and shared reading practices in the community life of Russian-speaking migrants in Britain.

From 2021 to 2023, I was a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Film, Visual Culture, and Media at Durham University and the UKRI GCRF Living Deltas Hub, where I worked on my "Community Digital Storytelling and Delta Futures" project. This led to the edited volume "" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2025) about the audiovisual strategies and practices employed by communities, artists, and scholars globally in response to delta change and climate breakdown.


Teaching

The Academic Year 2025/2026, I am contributing to:

  • MCH8612: Heritage Lives: Media Messages and Form
  • MCH8552: Heritage Processes. Global perspectives, practices and politics
  • GEO3162: The Politics of Difference and Identity





Publications

  • Articles

    • Theocharis A. . Anthropological Forum 2025, 35(3), 233-255.
    • Theocharis A. . Visual Studies 2025, 40(2), 314-330.
    • Theocharis A. . The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture 2021, (2), 37-58.
    • Theocharis A. Polyphonic Memory and Narratives of Resilience in Svetlana Alexievich’s Secondhand Time. Journal of Languages, Texts, and Society 2019, (3), 185-206.
    • Theocharis A. The Figure of Jesus Christ in Dostoevsky's Idiot and Canetti's Auto-da-Fé. Simeioseis 2012, (75), 93–103.

  • Authored Books

    • Theocharis A. . Cambridge, UK: MHRA Legenda, 2025.
    • Theocharis A. . Athens: Idyepeia, 2022.

  • Book Chapters

    • Theocharis A. . In: Forsberg T; Mäkinen S, ed. Russia’s Cultural Statecraft. New York: Routledge, 2021, pp.98-119.
    • Anemogiannis D, Theocharis A. . In: Piga BE; Siret D; Thibaud J-P, ed. Experiential Walks for Urban Design: Revealing, Representing, and Activating the Sensory Environment. Cham, Switzerland: Springer, 2021, pp.3-23.
    • Theocharis A. The Russian Dream and Victor Pelevin’s Generation ‘Π’: Ideology in Post-Soviet Russia. In: Karatzogianni, A; Schandorf, M; Ferra, I, ed. Protest Technologies and Media Revolutions: The Longue Durée. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2020, pp.37–49.
    • Theocharis A. Soundwalks and Art. In: Athanasekou, M, ed. Why does Art Concern Me? Its Many Dimensions and How It Is Used in Our Lives. Athens: Idyepeia, 2020, pp.260-277.
    • Theocharis A. Sensory Community. In: VADEMECUM: 77 Minor Terms for Writing Urban Places. Rotterdam: Nai0I0 Publishers, 2020.

  • Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstract)

    • Anemogiannis D, Theocharis A. The Sound of Kythera – Synergies of Education and Culture in the Field of Acoustic Ecology. In: Acoustic Ecology Conference. 2018, Mytilini: Hellenic Society of Acoustic Ecology.

  • Edited Book

    • Hernández-Adrián FJ, Theocharis A, ed. . London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2025.