Weatherhead Migration Cluster Seminar: “Creating Inclusive Communities: Examples from the Greek Front”

Speaker: Thalia Dragonas, Professor of Social Psychology, University of Athens

Thalia Dragonas is Emerita Professor of Social Psychology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She was Dean of the School of Education (2015-2018), Chair of the Department of Early Childhood Education for several terms, member of the board of the Greek Open University and the Center of Educational Research. Her research activity lies in the area of identities and the articulation of the social with the psychological. She has participated in and directed many Greek and international projects on minority and refugee integration. She worked extensively for the educational reform of the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace (1997-2019).  She is currently participating in the Erasmus+ European-African collaborative project “Humanitarian Action—Climate Change and Displacements.” Specific areas of research interests are: social inclusion; minorities; refugee integration; psychosocial identity; intergroup relations; intercultural education; ethnocentrism in the educational system.