Eugenia Roussou is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology at the Department of Social Anthropology and History of the University of the Aegean since May 2025. She holds a BA in History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology from the University of Thessaly (2003), a MA in Social Anthropology from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2004) and a PhD in Social Anthropology from University College London (UCL), University of London (2010). She has been a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, with a research grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT, 2011-2017), and an integrated researcher at CRIA, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Portugal (2018-2026). She is the Principal Investigator of the project ReSpell (“Religion, Spirituality and Wellbeing: A Comparative Approach of Transreligiosity and Crisis in Southern Europe»”), which is funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (2023-2026, FCT grant reference: 2022.01229.PTDC). She is also a team member of the project SPIRECTS (“Spiritual practices and psychedelic substances in ritualized emerging contexts: therapeutic and sociocultural implications”, principal investigator: José Alberto V. Simões), funded by FCT and with host institution the Interdisciplinary Centre of Social Sciences, CICS-NOVA, Portugal.
Her research focuses, and has published extensively, on the anthropological study of religion, contemporary, lived and vernacular religiosity, new religious movements of the so-called New Age and/or alternative spirituality, transreligiosity and spiritual elasticity, ritual healing practices, religious pluralism and creativity, cosmology, sacred spaces and the supernatural, complementary and alternative medicine, health and well-being, with particular comparative geographical reference to Greece and Portugal. Her monograph, entitled “Orthodox Christianity, New Age Spirituality and Vernacular Religion: The Evil Eye in Greece”, has been published in 2021 by Bloomsbury (ISBN: 9781350152816, soft cover publication: 2022).
She is a member of the editorial board of international peer-reviewed scientific journals, such as: Religion and Society: Advances in Research (Berghahn), Shaman: Journal of the International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (Springer Nature), Journal of Cultural Analysis and Social Change, Quotidiana: Journal for the Study of Lived Religion, and a member of international academic and of research networks, associations and groups, such as: International Society for Academic Research on Shamanism (ISARS), Network for the Anthropology of Religion (NAR-CRIA), Network for the Ethnography of Healing (HEAL), Contemporary Religions and Faiths in Transition (CRAFT), Circulation and Place-Making (CPL-CRIA), IN2PAST, European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR), European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), Portuguese Association for Anthropology (APA).