London School of Economics and Political Science
PhD, Political Sociology, Department of Government
London School of Economics and Political Science
MS, European Studies
Furman University
BA, Political Science, minor in French
Effie Fokas has been a member of the International Relations and European Affairs Program at Deree since 2020, where she teaches a range of courses, including Politics and Religion, Research Methods in International Relations and European Affairs (IREA), Senior Thesis in IREA, Modern European History and Politics, and Political Behavior. In addition to being a Fellow of the Institute of Hellenic Culture and the Liberal Arts, she is a member of the Institute of Global Affairs at ACG, a Research Associate of the LSE Hellenic Observatory, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP), where she led a European Research Council-funded project on grassroots-level impact of the European Court of Human Rights (Grassrootsmobilise) and where she currently serves on the three-member research ethics committee. Her research and writing explore intersections between religion and politics, law, nationalism and European identity.
(co-edited with) A. Giorgi, The Routledge Handbook on Religion and Politics in Europe, (Routledge, 2025)
(co-edited with) J. T. Richardson, The European Court of Human Rights and Minority Religions: Messages Generated and Messages Received (Taylor and Francis, 2018)
(co-authored with) . Berger and G. Davie, Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations (Ashgate Press, 2008)
(co-edited with) A. al-Azmeh, Islam in Europe: Diversity, Identity and Influence (Cambridge University Press, 2007)
“Religious symbols in Greek Public Spaces: Deconstructing the Shadow of Lautsi,” Journal of Church and State, 68/2 (2026)
“Nationalism in the Judicialization and Culturalization of Religion: The Case of Religious Education in Greece,” Religions 15/8 (2024), no. 952
“David Martin on Religion and Nationalism: Navigator of Contested Territories,” Nations and Nationalism, 27/1 (2021): 10-13
“Rights not working? Grassroots Level Impact of the European Court of Human Rights on Religion,” Social Compass 67/2 (2020), 191-205
“Islam at the European Court of Human Rights,” Nordic Journal of Law and Social Research 10 (2020), 121-144