Giorgos Venizelos
Giorgos Venizelos is Lecturer in Political Communication. His research integrates comparative politics, contemporary political theory and political communication, exploring populism, anti-populism, polarization, political identities and political discourse.
He is the author of Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump (Routledge, 2023), and has published in journals such as Communication Review, Critical Sociology, Political Studies, Constellations, and Representation.
Before joining the Department of Communication and Marketing at the Cyprus University of Technology in 2025, he was Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow (CO-FUND) at the University of Cyprus, Fellow in Political Polarization at CEU’s Democracy Institute, postdoctoral researcher at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and adjunct lecturer at the University of Cyprus.
He holds a PhD in Political Science and Sociology from the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Florence, Italy, an MA in International Studies from the Department of Politics at Goldsmiths College, University of London (2015) and a BA from the Department of Government at the University of Essex (2014).
He co-convenes the Populism Specialist Group (Political Studies Association, UK).
For further details visit his personal website.
Qualification | Year | Awarding Institution | Department | Thesis title (Optional Entry) |
PhD | 2021 | Scuola Normale Superiore | Faculty of Political and Social Sciences | Populism in Power – The Construction of Collective Identification in SYRIZA and Donald Trump |
MA | 2015 | Goldsmiths College, University of London | Politics and International Studies | Inherently Greek? A psychoanalytic perspective on Greek Cypriot identity |
BA | 2014 | University of Essex | Department of Government | - |
Period of employment | Employer | Location | Position | |
From | To | |||
2025 | Present | Cyprus University of Technology | Limassol, Cyprus | Lecturer |
9/2024 | 12/2024 (interrupted to start current position) | Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus | Nicosia, Cyprus | Marie Curie Fellow |
9/2023 | 9/2024 (interrupted to start next position) | Democracy Institute, Central European University | Budapest, Hungary | Fellow in Political Polarisation |
Ref. Number | Year | Title | Other authors | Journal and Publisher / | Vol. | Pages |
1 | 2023 | Populism in Power: Discourse and Performativity in SYRIZA and Donald Trump |
| Routledge (book) |
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2 | 2024 | (Anti-)Populism and Post-truth |
| Palgrave MacMillan | 91-118
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3 | 2024 | Analyzing pro-vax discourse during the pandemic: Techno-scientism, elitism, anti-populism | Dimitris Trimithiotis | The Communication Review |
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4 | 2024 | Populism in Opposition and in Government | Grigoris Markou | Research Handbook on Populism, Stavrakakis Y. & Katsambekis G. Edward Elgar Publishing |
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5 | 2023 | “The People” in Nationalism, Populism, and Popular Culture |
| Chacko Chennattuserry, J., Encyclopedia of New Populism and Responses in the 21st Century, Deshpande, M., Hong, P. (eds) |
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6 | 2022 | Donald Trump in Power: Discourse, Performativity, Identification |
| Critical Sociology |
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7 | 2022 | Populism in Power |
| The Populism Interviews: A Dialogue with Leading Experts, Luca Manucci (ed.) |
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8 | 2022 | Bound to fail? Assessing contemporary left populism | Yannis Stavrakakis | Constellations |
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9 | 2021 | Anti-populism and populist hype during the COVID-19 pandemic | Antonis Galanopoulos | Representation |
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10 | 2021 | Populism or Nationalism? The paradoxical non-emergence of populism in Cyprus |
| Political Studies |
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Ref. Number | Date | Title | Funded by | Project Role* |
1 | 2024 | Anti-Populism and Post-Truth | Marie Curie/Horizon 2020 + UCY | PI |
2 | 2023 | Populist/Anti-Populist Polarisation | CEU DI | PI |
3 | 2021 | GRESPA | ELIDEK (GREECE) | PostDoc |
4 | 2021 | CΟ-INFORM | HORIZON 2020 | Associate Researcher |
Ref. Number | Date | Title | Awarded by: |
1 | 2023 | Research Excellence Award | Department of Social and Political Sciences |
