Christina Maraboutaki

Christina Maraboutaki comes from the fields of law, sociology, and political science, with a specific interest in gender studies. She is currently a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she is undertaking a research project on institutional and public responses to gender and sexual violence in Greece over the last few decades, as well as the role of feminist and women’s movements and the LGBTQ community in informing and shaping these responses.

In 2021, she received her PhD from Sapienza University of Rome. In her doctoral thesis, *Technology and (the Promise of) Pleasure: A Study on Gender, Sexuality and Subjectivity from a Posthuman Perspective*, written under the joint supervision of Professor Caterina Romeo (Sapienza Università di Roma) and Professor Begonya Enguix Grau (Universitat Oberta de Catalunya), Christina examined the use of robotics, artificial intelligence, and virtual reality technologies by the sex industry. Her work focused on the feminization and sexualization of cutting-edge technology while providing a political analysis of imagined futures of sexuality.

Christina also holds an MSc in Gender and Sexuality Studies from Birkbeck, University of London, UK; an MA in Political Science and Sociology; and an LLB in Law, the latter two from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece.

She has been a member of the Athens Bar Association since 2016.