Δρ. Σπύρος Σπύρου

Ph.D. Sociocultural Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton

Certificate in College Teaching, State University of New York at Binghamton

M.A. Anthropology, State University of New York at Binghamton

B.S. Business Administration, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Book Reviews

• 2011 Schooling Passions: Nation, History, and Language in Contemporary Western India.  Stanford University Press. In Childhood 18(3):403-405.
• 2007 Bodies of Evidence: Burial, Memory, and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Cyprus.  Bergahn Books. In Journal of Modern Greek Studies 25(1):129-132.
• 2006 The Making of a Refugee: Children Adopting Refugee Identity in Cyprus by Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Westport, Conn: Praeger, 2002. In Journal of Modern Greek Studies 24(1): 209-211.
• 1999 Theorizing Childhood by Allison James, Chris Jenks, and Alan Prout, Teachers College Press, 1998. In Discourse 1(1): 73-76.

Non-Refereed Books

• Horwath, J., Kalyva, E., and Spyrou, S. 2010 Promoting the Effective Participation of Young People with Experiences of Violence in Projects: A Good Practice Guide for Training and Self-Development. Daphne.
• Spyrou, Spyros et al. 2007 Family Diversity: A Guide for Teachers. European Commission.
• Antoniou, L. and Spyrou, S. 2005 ?????d???e???: ?a?d??? ???as?a st?? ??p?? st?? ????? ?a? ta ??sa t?? 20?? ????a. ?e???s?a: ???t?? ?e??t?? t?? ?a?d???? ?a? ?f?ß???? ?????a?.

Chapters in Edited Books

Vryonides, M. and Spyrou, S. Accepted Cyprus.  In Palgrave Handbook on Race/Ethnic Inequalities in Education.

• 2010 Nationalism, Racism, and the Construction of the Immigrant “Other”:  The European Social Survey and Beyond.  Costas Gouliamos and Marios Vryonides, eds.  Pp.  27-53.  In Facets of Cypriot Society: Conclusions from the European Social Survey.  Nicosia: En Tipois.  (??????sµ??, ?ats?sµ?? ?a? ? ?atas?e?? t?? ?eta??st? «?????»: ? ????pa??? ????????? ‘??e??a ?a? p?? ???a. ??sta? G?????µ?? ?a? ?????? ??????d??, ep?µ. Ss. 27-53. St? ??e?? ??p??a??? ???????a?: ??ap?st?se?? ????pa???? ?????????? ??e??a?. ?e???s?a: ??d?se?? ?? ??p???.)
• 2008 Introduction: Children as Social Researchers. In Children as Social Researchers: A Resource Book for Teachers and Other Educators. Spyros Spyrou, ed., pp. 1-4. Nicosia: United Nations Development Programme.    
• 2008 Social Research and Children. In Children as Social Researchers: A Resource Book for Teachers and Other Educators, Spyros Spyrou, ed., pp. 5-7. Nicosia: United Nations Development Programme.    
• 2008 Fieldwork. In Children as Social Researchers: A Resource Book for Teachers and Other Educators, Spyros Spyrou, ed., pp. 35-45. Nicosia: United Nations Development Programme.    
• 2008 Education and the Cultural Politics of Childhood in Cyprus.  In European Childhoods: Cultures, Politics and Childhood in the European Union. Adrian James and Allison James, eds, pp. 149-171. Palgrave Macmillan. 
• 2006 Constructing ‘the Turk’ as an Enemy: The Complexity of Stereotypes in Children’s Everyday Worlds. In When Greek Think About Turks: The View from Anthropology, Dimitrios Theodossopoulos, ed.  Pp. 95-110. London and New York: Routledge.  (Previously published in South European Society and Politics 11(1): 95-110.)
• 2006 Children Constructing Ethnic Identities in Cyprus.  In Divided Cyprus: Modernity, History, and an Island in Conflict, Yiannis Papadakis, Nicos Peristianis, and Gisela Welz, eds, pp. 121-139.   Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 
• 2005 Crossing the Green Line in Cyprus: First Encounters with the Other.  In Cypriot Identities: Conversations in Paper, Karin. B. Costello, ed. Nicosia: Intercollege Press. Previously published in Transformations 15(2): 42-50. 
• Hadjitheodoulou – Loizidou, P., and Spyrou, S. 2004 The Gimme6 Teacher’s Guide.  In Intercultural Education Using the Gimme6 Series in an In-Service Teacher Training for Curriculum Development, Pavlina Hadjitheodoulou – Loizidou, ed., pp. 66-140. Nicosia: Pedagogical Institute, Ministry of Education and Culture. (translated in English, Greek, and Turkish)
• 2002 "Nicosia."  In Encyclopedia of Urban Cultures: Cities and Cultures Around the World. Amber, Melvin and Carol Ember, eds. Pp. 331-337. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier.
• 2001 "Those on the Other Side: Ethnic Identity and Imagination in Greek Cypriot Children's Lives."  In Children and Anthropology: Perspectives for the 21st Century, Helen Schwartzman, ed, pp. 167-185. Westport, Connecticut and   London: Bergin & Garvey.
• 2001 Using Ads to Teach Anthropology. In Strategies for Teaching Anthropology 2nd Edition, Patricia Rice and Dave McCurdy, eds, pp. 57-59.  Prentice-Hall, Inc. Also published on the Internet at:  http://anthro3.fullerton.edu/dbproject/experience.htm

Articles in Refereed Journals

• Spyrou, S. Forthcoming How Single Parent Children Speak About Poverty and Social Exclusion: Policy Implications from a Comparative, Qualitative, Cross-National Project. Child and Youth Services. 
• Theodorou, E. and Spyrou, S. Forthcoming Motherhood in Utero: Consuming Away Anxiety. Journal of Consumer Culture. Forthcoming Children and the Sexualized Construction of Otherness: The Imaginary Perceptions of Russian and Romanian Immigrant Women in Cyprus. Journal of International Migration and Integration. DOI 10.1007/s12134-012-0242-8.
• Pache, V. and Spyrou, S. 2012 Introduction: Children’s Interethnic Relations in Everyday Life – Beyond Institutional Contexts. Childhood 19(3): 291-301.
• Christou, M. and Spyrou, S. 2012 Border Encounters: How Children Navigate Space and Otherness in an Ethnically-Divided Society. Childhood 19(3): 302-316.
• Horwath, J., Kalyva, E., and Spyrou, S. 2012 “I Want my Experiences to Make a Difference”: Promoting Participation in Policy-making and Service Development by Young People who have Experienced Violence. Children and Youth Services Review, 34(1):155-162.
• Leonard, M., McKnight, M., and Spyrou, S. 2011 Growing Up in Divided Societies: Confronting Continuity and Change.  In Growing Up in Divided Societies, Special Issue, Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 31, Issue 9/10:520-530.
• 2011 Children’s Educational Engagement with Nationalism in Divided Cyprus.  In Growing Up in Divided Societies, Special Issue, Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 31, Issue 9/10:531-542.
• 2011 The Limits of Children’s Voices: From Authenticity to Critical, Reflexive Representation. Childhood 18(2):151-165.
• 2009 Between Intimacy and Intolerance: Greek Cypriot Children’s Encounters with Asian Domestic Workers. Childhood 16(2): 155-173.
• Schmitt, D., Spyrou, S., et al. 2007 The Geographic Distribution of the Big Five Personality Traits: Patterns and Profiles of Human Self-Description Across 56 Nations. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 38(2):173-212.
• 2006 Constructing ‘the Turk’ as an Enemy: The Complexity of Stereotypes in Children’s Everyday Worlds. South European Society and Politics 11(1): 95-110.
• 2004 Crossing the Green Line in Cyprus: First Encounters with the Other. Transformations 15(2): 42-50. 
• Schmitt, D., Spyrou, S., et al. 2004 Patterns and Universals of Adult Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions: Are Models of Self and Other Pancultural Constructs? Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology 35(4):367-402. 
• Schmitt, D., Spyrou, S., et al. 2004 Patterns and Universals of Mate Poaching Across 53 Nations: The Effects of Sex, Culture, and Personality on Romantically Attracting Another Person’s Partner. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 86(4): 560-584. 
• Schmitt, D., Spyrou, S., et al. 2003 Are Men Universally More Dismissive than Women?  Gender Differences in Romantic Attachment Across 62 Cultural Regions. Personal Relationships 10 (3): 307-331.
• Schmitt, D., Spyrou, S., et al. 2003 Universal Sex Differences in the Desire for Sexual Variety: Tests from 52 Nations, 6 Continents, and 13 Islands. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 85(1): 85-104.
• 2002 Images of “The Other”: “The Turk” in Greek Cypriot Children’s Imaginations.  In Race, Ethnicity and Education: 5(3): 255-272. 
• 2001 "One and More than One: Greek Cypriot Children and Ethnic Identity in the Flow of Everyday Life." disClosure: A Journal of Social Theory 10: 73-94.
• 2000 "Education, Ideology, and the National Self: The Social Practice of Identity Construction in the Classroom." The Cyprus Review 12(1):61-81.

Editorial Experience

• Spyrou, S. and Christou, M. (eds) exp. 2013 Children and Borders. Basingstoke: Palgrave.
• Pache, V. and Spyrou, S., Editors 2012 Guest Editor, Special Issue: Children’s Interethnic Relations in Everyday Life – Beyond Institutional Contexts. Childhood 19(3).
• Leonard, M., McKnight, M. and Spyrou, S., Editors 2011 Guest Editor, Special Issue: Growing Up in Divided Societies. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Volume 31, Issue 9/10.
• Spyrou, S., Editor 2008 Children as Social Researchers: A Resource Book for Teachers and Other Educators.  Nicosia: United Nations Development Programme.

KeyNote and Plenary Speeches

• 2012 Children as Anthropologists. Final Conference of the JuMuw (“You Move”) Project, University of Vienna, December 14.
• 2012 Producing Childhoods, Or What Might a More Critical Anthropology of Childhood Look Like.  Keynote Speech Delivered at the 2012 Inter-congress of International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, “Children and Youth in a Changing World”, Organized by the IUAES Commission on Children, Youth, and Childhood and Centre for Children’s Studies, Kalinga Institute of Social Sciences, KISS, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India, November 26-30.

• 2011 How Racism and Discrimination Impacts on Children and How They Violate Their Convention Rights.  Keynote Speech Delivered at “Difference is a Right: Discrimination, Racism and Their Impact on Children”, 15th Pancyprian Conference for the Protection and Welfare of the Child Organized by the Pancyprian Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Welfare of the Child, Troodos, November 12-13.

Recent Presentations 

• 2012 Discussant, Public seminar on the findings of a Research Promotion Foundation -funded research project entitled “Exploring the nature and causes of students' views of, and experiences with, racism and ethnic-out groups in Cyprus: A case-study approach”, European University Cyprus, 19 November.
• (with Miranda Christou)
  2012 Children Crossing the Green Line in Cyprus: Borders, Space and Identity. Paper Presented at the International Conference “Cypriot Identities Across Millennia”,  University of Nicosia, 7-9 September.
• (with Miranda Christou)
  2012 Collective Memory and Intergeneration Dynamics: Greek Cypriot Children’s Crossings to the Occupied Areas of Cyprus, Paper Presented at the 2nd International Conference of the International Childhood and Youth Research Network titled “Children, Young People and Adults: Extending the Conversation”, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK, 5 – 7 September.
• (with Miranda Christou)
  2012 Borders, Space, and Identity: Children Crossing the Green Line in Cyprus.  Paper Presented at the 4th International Conference “Celebrating Childhood Diversity”, Sheffield, UK, 9-11th July.  
• (with Loucas Antoniou)
  2011 Researching Child Labor in Cyprus Through Oral History. Poster Presentation at “Oral History Research Conference”, Frederick University, Nicosia, October 7. 
• (with Miranda Christou)
  2011 “Border” Crossings. Paper Presented at the International Conference “The Local in Global Understandings of War and Peacemaking: Anthropological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives”, Organized by PACSA (Peace and Conflict Studies in Anthropology), PRIO, Nicosia, September 1-2.
• 2011 “Border” Crossings: Children, Place, and Identity in a Divided Society. Paper Presented at the International Conference “Towards an Anthropology of Childhood and Children: Ethnographic Fieldwork Diversity and Construction of a Field”, University of Liege, Belgium, March 9-11. 
• 2010 Power, Representation, and Disciplinary Anxieties: From Studying Children to a Critical Anthropology of Childhood. Paper Presented at the International Conference “The Doors of Perception: Viewing Anthropology Through the Eyes of Children, VU University Amsterdam, September 30th - October 1st.
• 2010 Viewing the Political Through Tradition and Prophesy: Greek Cypriot Children’s Imaginative Responses to Political Crisis. Paper Presented at the “Crisis and Imagination” Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland, August 24-27. 
• 2010 Children’s Engagement with Nationalism in Divided Societies. Paper Presented at “Growing Up in Divided Societies”, Queen’s University Belfast, June 10-11, 2010. 
• 2009 Discourse and Practice in the Everyday Worlds of Children: Ideologies, Contradictions, and Change. Paper Presented at “Cyprus Colloquium: Discourse and Education in the Process of Reconciliation, London Metropolitan University, May 8. 
• 2008 Discussant of Pavlina Hadjitheodoulou-Loizidou’s Paper “Aspects of the Social Self of Cypriots and Diversifications in the Image of the Immigrants” at the Colloquium “Problems and Reflections about Cypriot Society: Findings from the European Social Survey”, European University Cyprus, November 20-21. 
• 2008 Nationalism, Racism, and the Construction of the Immigrant “Other”: The European Social Survey and Beyond. Paper Presented at the Colloquium “Problems and Reflections about Cypriot Society: Findings from the European Social Survey”, European University Cyprus, November 20-21. 
• 2008 Single Parent Children’s Voices: The Experience of Poverty and Social Exclusion in their Everyday Lives. Invited Paper Presentation at the 2nd Scientific-Educational Conference on Family Education, Nicosia, November 1.
• 2008 Researching Children’s Voices: From Reification to Critical Representation. Paper Presented at “Child and Youth Research in the 21st Century: A Critical Appraisal”, International Conference Organized by the “International Childhood and Youth Research Network”, European University Cyprus, 28-29 May.
• 2008 Domestic Violence in Cyprus. Public Lecture Presented as Part of the “Bilateral Research Project Between the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Slovenia,” Nicosia, European University Cyprus, March 19.
• 2007 The Sociological and Anthropological Perspective on Children’s Rights. Paper Presented at “Europe’s Children, Cyprus’ Children: The Implementation of Children’s Rights, Myth or Reality”, 13th Pancyprian Conference Organized by the Pancyprian Coordinating Committee for the Protection and Welfare of the Child, Ayia Napa, 17-18 November, 2007. 
• 2007 Single Parent Families: Contemporary Realities. Public Presentation and Discussion, Intercollege, October 31. 
• 2007 Domestic Violence: Basic Problems, Recommendations for Prevention and Policy Measures. Public Lecture Presented as Part of the “Bilateral Research Project Between the Republic of Cyprus and the Republic of Slovenia,” Nicosia, European University Cyprus, October 24.
• 2007 Poverty and Social Exclusion in the Everyday Worlds of Children from Single Parent Families. Paper presented at the 8th International Conference of the European Sociological Association, “Conflict, Citizenship and Civil Society,”
  Glascow, UK, September 3 – 7.
• 2007 Creating Partnerships between Teachers, Single Parents, and Children: A Transnational, Comparative Project. Paper presented at ERNAPE 2007 6th International Conference of the European Research Network about Parents in Education, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, August 28-29. 
• 2007 What Children from Single Parent Families Have to Say about their Lives: Poverty, Social Exclusion and Policy Implications from a Transnational, Comparative Project. Invited Presentation at the International Workshop “Children’s Experiences with Poverty and Social Exclusion: Challenges for Research and Policies,” European Center for Social Welfare Policy and Research, Vienna, 28-29, June.  

• 2007 Presentation of Final Findings of European Project on Children from Single Parent Families, Poverty and Social Exclusion, Cyprus College, Nicosia, June 19.

Recent Invited Guest Presentations

• 2012 Invited Discussant, Panel on Teaching Controversial Issues, 11th InSEA European Congress, International Society for Education through Art, Limassol, Cyprus, June 27.
• 2012 Anthropology’s Small Others and What Might a Critical Anthropology of Childhood Look Like, Invited Public Lecture, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Vienna, January 11.
• 2011 The Sociology of Childhood. Invited Seminar Offered to Students in the “Master of Advanced Studies in Children’s Rights”, University of Fribourg, May 24. 
• 2010 Presentation of the Research Findings of the Project “You Respond” (Vulnerable Children’s Participation in Projects Aimed at Preventing and Combating Violence Against Children) funded by Daphne III, Athens, December 6.
• 2010 The Social and Cultural Factors which Contribute to Child Obesity: Results from a Qualitative Study. Presentation at the Dissemination Seminar of the Research Project “Identifying the Physical Well-Being of Children Ages 6 to 12 from Cyprus and the Factors which Determine it”, European University Cyprus, December 17.
• 2009 The Voices of Children from Single Parent Families and Their Everyday Experiences of Poverty and Social Exclusion: Implications for Educational Policy and Practice. Invited Presentation at the Educational Conference “Preventing Social Exclusion Through Education: From Theory to Practice,” Organized by the Democratic Movement of Pre-primary, Primary, and Secondary Education Teachers, European University Cyprus, November, 21.
• 2009 Education and Immigration in Cyprus. Invited Paper Presented at the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on “Immigration and Education in Southern Europe,” Barcelona, November 13-14.