Associate Professor
University of Buffalo
Vasiliki Neofotistos is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard University, a Master of Studies in Anthropology from Oxford University, and a BA is Mass Communication from Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. Dr. Neofotistos has been conducting ethnographic research in the Balkans, especially in the country now known as North Macedonia, since the early 2000s. She is the author of The Risk of War: Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012) and numerous peer-reviewed articles on nationalism and the politics of identity. Most recently, she edited Macedonia and Identity Politics after the Prespa Agreement (Routledge, 2021). Her research has been funded by the International Research and Exchanges Board, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.