Dimitris Antoniou

Dimitris Antoniou is Lecturer in Hellenic Studies and Associate Director of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Public Humanities Initiative (SNFPHI) at Columbia University. His research, teaching, and curatorial practice focus on the history, anthropology, and contemporary art of Greece. His monograph, Why not Build the Mosque? Islam, Political Cost, and the Practice of Democracy in Greece (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2025), explores the Greek state’s attempts to construct a mosque, while recent articles examine spatial absence, encounters with the unthinkable in investigations of Greece’s dictatorial past, and the contemporary artistic landscape. Before joining Columbia, he was Faculty Research Fellow at Oxford, Hannah Seeger Davis Fellow at Princeton, and National Bank of Greece Fellow at LSE. Prior to that, as a Fellow at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies, he worked to establish Harvard's research outpost in Nafplion, Greece. Since joining Columbia's faculty in 2015, he has designed and implemented numerous study abroad and public humanities programs throughout Greece.