Phaedra Douzina-Bakalaki is a social anthropologist. Her theoretical interests lie in economic anthropology, the anthropology of the state, and gender and kinship, while her ethnographic research explores intersections between patterns of social reproduction and processes of socioeconomic transformation. She completed her undergraduate degree in Psychology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, and she later joined the University of Manchester, where she received MA and MRes degrees in social anthropology. She earned her PhD degree in 2017 from the same university. Her thesis examined emergent modes of provisioning amid the Greek economic crisis in the town of Xanthi, Northern Greece, and paid particular attention to the distribution of basic goods and services, such as food, clothing, and healthcare. Between 2017 and 2021, she joined the University of Helsinki, where she served as a postdoctoral researcher in the ERC project ‘Crosslocations: Rethinking Relative Location in the Mediterranean’. In 2022 she received funding by the Finnish Cultural Foundation in support of her postdoctoral research ‘From extractivist pasts to post-carbon futures: An ethnographic study of lignite phase-out in Greece’, based at the University of Helsinki. She is the co-editor of the Anthropology Matters Journal, which is the official early-career, open-access journal of the Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK (ASA).