Ioannis Karachristos

Ioannis Karachristos studied history at the Universities of Athens and Vienna. He has taught at Greek and Austrian universities and has participated in numerous research projects in Greece and abroad. Since 2009, he has been working as a researcher (currently senior researcher) at the Hellenic Folklore Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. His research interests include historical ethnography, oral and local history, family history, public history, memory, identities, popular religious practices, migration, community organization during the period of Ottoman rule, settlement of Asia Minor refugees in Greece, and digital humanities.