Maria Kousis (Ph.D, The University of Michigan, 1984) is Professor of Sociology and former director of the University of Crete Research Centre for the Humanities, the Social and Education Sciences (UCRC) (9/2014-11/2021). She was coordinator or partner in European Commission projects including Grassroots Environmental Action, TEA, PAGANINI and MEDVOICES. Her publications consist of 16 edited volumes, books, or special issues, 43 journal articles and 39 book chapters. Recent publications include, Transnational solidarity in times of crises: Citizen organisations and collective learning in Europe, focused on the fields of migration, disability and unemployment (Eds.: C. Lahusen, U. Zschache and M. Kousis, Palgrave, 2021) and Transnational Solidarity Organizations in Times of Crises – Comparative European Perspectives (Eds.: M. Kousis and C. Lahusen, special section of Sociological Research Online, 2021). Her research centres on Social Change, Contentious Politics, Crisis and Society, Environmental Politics, Bio
