Kyriaki Topidi

Dr. habil. Kyriaki Topidi is the head of the research cluster Culture & Diversity and joined ECMI in 2019. She holds a degree in law from the Robert Schuman Faculty of Law in Strasbourg, an MA in International Studies from the University of Birmingham, a PhD in European Studies from Queen's University Belfast, and a habilitation in Comparative Constitutional Law from the University of Fribourg. She has lectured extensively and conducted research in the areas of Public International Law, European Law, Human Rights, and Comparative Law.

In the past, she has held research positions in various institutions and was a senior lecturer at the Faculty of Law of the University of Lucerne in Switzerland. She has also served as the managing director of the Centre for Comparative Constitutional Law and Religion at the same institution. She has been a guest scholar at Fordham University (US), the IDC (Israel), the Max Planck Institute in Halle (Germany), the Institute of Law and Religion of the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), the Institute of Comparative Law of the University of Paris 2 - Assas (France), as well as the National Law School Delhi (India), among others.

Her research interests focus on diversity management, minority protection rights and mechanisms, with a special interest in religion. She is the author and editor of several volumes, including "EU Law, Minorities and Enlargement" (Intersentia, 2010), "Constitutional Evolution in Central and Eastern Europe: Expansion and Integration in the EU" (Ashgate, 2011), "Transnational Legal Process and Human Rights" (Ashgate, 2013), and "Religion as Empowerment: Global Legal Perspectives" (Routledge, 2016). More recently, she has edited a collection on "Normative Pluralism and Human Rights" (Routledge, 2018). Her latest monograph focuses on "The Right to Difference and Comparative Religious Diversity in Education" (Routledge, 2020), and her latest co-edited work focuses on "Minority Recognition and the Diversity Deficit" (Hart, 2022). At the ECMI, she is currently researching minority identity and digital governance, as well as the intersection of minorities with social movements, with an upcoming edited volume on "Minority Rights and Social Change: Norms, Actors, and Strategies" (Routledge, 2023). She is the co-editor of the book series "Routledge Advances on Minority Studies" (RAMS).