Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni
Senior assistant professor
- Name
- Dr. V. Tsagkroni
- Telephone
- +31 715275 436
- v.tsagkroni@fsw.leidenuniv.nl
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-1421-2229
Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni is Senior Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at the Institute of Political Science.
Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni is Senior Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics at Leiden University’s Institute of Political Science. Their research focuses on political communication, populism, radical right parties, crisis management, political marketing and branding, and EU politics.
They are co-founder and steering committee member of the ECPR Politics of Crisis Management group, editorial board member of Media and Communication, Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism and Populism and Politics, and serve on the board of the Palgrave book series Studies in Political Marketing and Management.
Their work has appeared in leading journals such as South European Society and Politics, Public Administration, Party Politics, and the British Journal of Politics and International Relations, as well as numerous edited volumes. They hold a PhD from Queen Mary University London (2015), a MA from Panteion University of Athens (2008) and a BA from the same institution (2005).
PhD supervision
Vasiliki (Billy) Tsagkroni is available to supervise PhD students and invites PhD research proposals in the areas of:
- Far-right parties, populism and radicalisation
- Political discourse
- Political communication/marketing/branding
See for more information on PhD positions: Institute of Political Science: PhD.
Senior assistant professor
- Social & Behavioural Sciences
- Political Science
- Tsagkroni V. & Dikaios G. (2024), Guest editor: Policy framing and branding in times of constant crisis. Media and Communication 12.
- Tsagkroni V. (Ed.) (2023) GPSG Pamphlet No 7: first thoughts on the 21 May 2023 election in Greece GPSG Pamphlet. Glasgow: Greek Politics Specialist Group.
- Tsagkroni V. (Ed.) (2023) GPSG Pamphlet no.8, first thoughts on the 25 June 2023 election in Greece: Greek Politics Specialist Group.
- Tsagkroni V. & Nevradakis M. (2022), Guest editor: The politics of new media practices. 7(11).
- Tsagkroni V., Alencar A. & Skleparis D. (2022), Guest editor: Media and migration in the Covid-19 pandemic: discourses, policies, and practices in times of crisis. 2(10).
- Tsagkroni V. & Alencar A. (2019), Guest editor: Refugee Crisis Disclosed and subtitle: Intersections between Media, Communication and Forced Migration Processes?. Media and Communication 7(2).