Takis Pappas

Takis Pappas

Visiting Professor, Central European University, Vienna

Takis Pappas, formerly a professor of comparative politics at the University of Macedonia, Greece, has held teaching and research appointments at the universities of Strasbourg, Oslo, Freiburg, Luxembourg, Central European University, European University Institute, Yale, and Princeton. Among his works are the books Populism and Crisis Politics in Greece (Palgrave, 2015), European Populism in the Shadow of the Great Recession (ECPR Press, 2015), and Populism and Liberal Democracy: A Comparative and Theoretical Analysis (Oxford University Press, 2019). Besides his academic work, Pappas maintains a blog (www.pappaspopulism.com) and has experimented with disseminating his work through videos (with TED-Ed), infographics, and comic strips. He is a regular columnist in the Sunday edition of Greek newspaper Kathimerini. Pappas holds M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University.