Olympia Konstantopoulou

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Olympia Konstantopoulou holds a PhD from the Department of Communication, Media and 
Culture at Panteion University. Her doctoral dissertation examines the social and cultural role of 
radio in Greece during the period 1938–1966.
She holds a postgraduate degree in Political Science and Sociology from the National and 
Kapodistrian University of Athens and a degree in Studies in European Culture from the Hellenic 
Open University. Her research interests focus on the social and cultural history of the media, the 
relationships between media, society and culture, and the relationship between photography and 
memory, with particular emphasis on family photography and its role in the formation of family 
memory.
She has presented her research at academic conferences in Greece and abroad and has published 
contributions in edited volumes and conference proceedings. In 2025, she participated in the 11th 
PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus, organized by the Hellenic Observatory at 
the London School of Economics, presenting a paper related to her doctoral research.