Christina Maraboutaki

Christina Maraboutaki is a socio-legal scholar with an interdisciplinary background in law, sociology, and political science with a strong focus on gender and sexuality studies.

In 2021 she received her PhD from Sapienza, University of Rome. Her doctoral thesis, “Technology and (the Promise of) Pleasure: A Study on Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity from a Posthuman Perspective”, examined the feminization and sexualization of cutting-edge technological products, providing a political analysis of the imagined future of sexuality.

From 2022 to 2024, Christina was a Max Weber Postdoctoral Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, undertaking a research project on the institutional and public approaches to gender and sexual violence in Greece, investigating the role of the feminist, women’s and LGBTQ movements in informing and shaping these frameworks.

Part of her work has been published at academic journals and edited volumes.

Christina also holds an MSc in gender and sexuality studies from Birkbeck, University of London, an MA in political science and sociology and an LLB in law from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Since 2016 she has been a member of the Athens Bar Association.