Vasiliki Neofotistos is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the State University of New York at Buffalo, where she teaches courses on violence, political anthropology, and the anthropology of war and peace.
She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University (2003) and has previously taught in the Committee on Degrees in Social Studies at Harvard and the Department of Anthropology at the Catholic University of America.
She has conducted fieldwork research on inter-ethnic relations, constructions of identity, and violence in Eastern Europe, specifically Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Montenegro. Neofotistos is particularly interested in the interface between social anthropology and policy-making with special reference to conflict management and prevention, post-conflict stabilization, and democracy building.
She is currently completing her first book manuscript tentatively entitled “An Ethnography of Non-violence: Power Inequalities and Conflict Negotiation in the Republic of Macedonia”.
Neofotistos speaks Macedonian, Albanian, Greek, English and French.
She became a TFF Peace Antenna in 2001 and TFF Associate in 2003.