Hara Kouki is a Research Associate in the Global Governance Programme of the European University Institute (Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies), in Florence, Italy. Trained as a historian in Athens and holding an MA in Film and History from the University of Kent and an MRes in History and Civilization from the EUI, Hara received her PhD from the Law Department of Birkbeck College, University of London. Her thesis is a historical genealogy tracing the encounter between social movements with human rights during Cold War Europe. She has co-edited ‘Protest beyond Borders: Contentious Politics in Europe since 1945 (Berghahn, 2011) and ‘The Greek Crisis and European Modernity’ (Palgrave, 2013).Through participating in several research projects ranging from political and protest culture to European identities and migration and regularly contributing to the press (Guardian, Al Jazeera English et al.), Hara aims at tracing the historical transformations of the present time and unravelling what forms part of the common sense of our era.

Research interests: protest culture, collective identities, human rights, and postwar European history