Georgia Giannakopoulou

BA, Sociology, Deree – The American College of Greece; MPhil, Sociology, University of Glasgow; PhD Sociology University of Glasgow; Post-Doctorate Research, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences.

Dr. Giannakopoulou specializes in classical and critical sociological theory with emphasis on Friedrich Nietzsche, Max Weber, Georg Simmel, and first-generation Frankfurt School sociology. She teaches courses in Sociology and the International Honors Program, including sociology of architecture, urban imaginaries, political satire, and youth cultures. Her research focuses on the critiques of metropolitan modernity and the sociology of architecture. She holds the David Frisby archive and has edited three books on David Frisby. Her latest publications include The Detective of Modernity – Essays on the Work of David Frisby (co-edited with Graeme Gilloch), and Building Modern Antiquity. 

Selected Publications

Monograph 

• (2025) Building Modern Antiquity: Hymns and Laments for Athens. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Visual Modernities Series. 

Edited Collections 

• (2021) (Co-ed. with G. Gilloch) David Frisby – The Detective of Modernity. Festschrift to David Frisby. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. Classical and Contemporary Social Theory Series.
• (2012) (Ed., and tr.) David Frisby – Οδικά Τοπία της Νεωτερικότητας. [D. Frisby – Streetscapes of Modernity]. Thessaloniki, Nisides. [Greek] 
• (2009) (Ed., and tr.) David Frisby, Στιγμιότυπα της Νεωτερικότητας. [D. Frisby – Snapshots of Modernity]. With an Introduction by D. Frisby. Thessalonike, Nisides. [Greek] 

Essays in Refereed Journals 

• (2017) “David Frisby’s ‘Streetscapes of Modernity’.” Theory, Culture & Society. 34(7-8): 147-164
• (2015) “Modern Athens: Illuminating the ‘Shadows of the Ancestors’.” Journal of Modern Greek Studies. 33(1): 73-103. 
• (2014) “Modern Antiquity: An Introduction to Athenian Metropolitan Modernity.” Journal of Greek Media and Culture. 1(1):113-126. 

Book chapters 

• (2022) “Modern Greek Art and Architecture”. Modern Greece. ABC-CLIO.