Evanthia Patsiaoura is Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. Prior to this appointment, she held two lectureships at the University of Manchester, two postdoctoral fellowships funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and teaching posts at Queen’s University Belfast. Her research focuses on the intersections of music, religion, locality and popular culture, and includes ethnographic fieldwork in Greece, Brazil, Nigeria, the UK and the social media.
Evanthia has contributed to collaborative research projects such as Local Musicking: New Pathways for Ethnomusicology (University of Campinas and University of São Paulo), Processes of Subject Constitution in African Contexts: Differentiation, Iteration, Intersectionality (University of São Carlos), and Jazz Diasporas In-the-Making (University of Manchester). Her publications appear in journals and edited volumes including Ethnography, Popular Music and Society, Social Analysis, SAGE Research Methods Foundations and The Routledge Companion to the Study of Local Musicking.
Evanthia has taught a wide range of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in ethnomusicology, sociocultural anthropology and performance, with an emphasis on historical and contemporary issues in ethnographic epistemology, as well as musical traditions of West Africa, the Balkans, South America and Southeast Asia, among others. Her teaching also extends to the direction of Nigerian gospel singing ensembles.