Fotiou Evgenia
Assistant Professor
CONTACT
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel: +3028310774
E-mail: evgeniafotiou at uoc.gr at uoc.gr
FOTIOU_EVGENIA CV
Education
Ph.D., Anthropology; Latin American, Caribbean and Iberian Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2010
M.A., Anthropology, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2001
B.A., Communication and Mass Media, National and Capodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 1998
Professional Experience
2023-today: Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology, University of Crete, Rethymno
2014-2021: Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Kent State University
2012-2014: ACM-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Indigenous Religious Traditions. Department of Religion; Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Luther College
2011: Associate Lecturer. Department of Anthropology; Department of Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Research Interests
Cultural anthropology, medical anthropology, anthropology of religion, anthropology of the body, gender and sexuality, interculturality, social justice, medical pluralism, ethnomedicine, shamanism, ethnobotany, ritual, embodiment, women’s health, Indigenous knowledge systems, Indigeneity, decoloniality, new religious and revitalization movements, religion and identity, tourism, globalization, transnational religion, public anthropology, Lowland South America, Greece.
Selected Publications (details in the CV)
Special Issues
2022, Leor Roseman, Katrin H. Preller, Evgenia Fotiou and Michael J. Winkelman (eds), “Psychedelic sociality: Pharmacological and extrapharmacological perspectives”, Frontiers in Pharmacology
2017, Evgenia Fotiou, Diana Riboli, Davide Torri, and Dimitra Mari Varvarezou (eds), “Sacred Landscapes and Conflict Transformation: History, Space, Place, and Power in Shamanism”, Shaman
Articles in Peer Reviewed Journals
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2023. “Transreligiosity and Religious Revitalization in Modern Greece: Bridging Religion and Science through Geomythology.” Religions 14 (6): 754. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14060754.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2022. “How Transreligious Ayahuasca Use Challenges Conventional Definitions of Religion.” Shaman 30 (1–2): 59–78.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2020. “The Role of Indigenous Knowledges in Psychedelic Science.” Journal of Psychedelic Studies 4 (1): 16–23. https://doi.org/10.1556/2054.2019.031.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2020. “The Importance of Ritual Discourse in Framing Ayahuasca Experiences in the Context of Shamanic Tourism.” Anthropology of Consciousness 31 (2): 223–44. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12117.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2020. “Shamanic Tourism in the Peruvian Lowlands: Critical and Ethical Considerations.” The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology 25 (3): 374–96. https://doi.org/10.1111/jlca.12508.
Fotiou, Evgenia, and Alex K. Gearin. 2019. “Purging and the Body in the Therapeutic Use of Ayahuasca.” Social Science & Medicine 239C (October). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2019.112532.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2019. “Technologies of the Body in Contemporary Amazonian Shamanism: Implications for Future Research.” Human Ecology 47 (1): 145–51. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-018-0043-6.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2016. “The Globalization of Ayahuasca Shamanism and the Erasure of Indigenous Shamanism.” Anthropology of Consciousness 27 (2): 151–79. https://doi.org/10.1111/anoc.12056.
Book Chapters
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2025. “Vegetalista Healing Traditions of the Peruvian Amazon”, In Brill Handbook of Contemporary Entheogenic Healing, edited by Michael J. Winkelman, 217-241. Brill.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2025. “The Body as a Battleground: Embodiment and Sorcery in Shamanic Tourism”. In Sorcery in Amazonia a Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault, edited by James Andrew Whitaker, Matthias Lewy, and Tarryl Janik, 177–91. Berlin: Ibero-Amerikanisches Institut Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Fotiou, Evgenia. 2018. “Plant Use and Shamanic Dietas in Contemporary Ayahuasca Shamanism in Peru.” In Ethnopharmacologic Search for Psychoactive Drugs 2017: 50th Anniversary Symposium, edited by Ghillean T. Prance, Dennis J. McKenna, Ben de Loenen, and Wade Davis, 55–69. Santa Fe, NM: Synergetic Press, in association with Heffter Research Institute. [The book received the following award: 2018 James A. Duke Excellence in Botanical Literature Award]