Christidis, Ioannis, PhD

Ioannis Christidis (he/him) is a Postdoctoral Researcher and Co-Investigator at the Department of Folk Music Research and Ethnomusicology, where he works on the project “(Un)heard Neighbors? An Urban Ethnomusicology of Proximity” (Primar Investigator: Isabel Frey).

His research interests include music and migration, music and minorities, protest music, religious music and sound, Syrian music, Arab electronic dance music, and musical acts of citizenship.

Christidis completed a PhD in Ethnomusicology in 2024 at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. His dissertation, “Music in the Experience of Forced Migration from Syria to the European Borderland: Two Case Studies,” investigates the role of music in the lives of Syrian forced migrants during their journeys and resettlement in Europe, with particular attention to musical responses to border regimes, refugee policies, integration frameworks, and populist anti-migration rhetoric. His PhD research was carried out at the Music and Minorities Research Center and funded through the Wittgenstein Prize awarded to Prof. Dr. Ursula Hemetek (FWF Grant DOI: 10.55776/Z352).

Christidis also holds degrees in Architecture (2010) and Music Science and Art (2017). As a musician, he plays Western classical piano and the Eastern Mediterranean oud, with a particular focus on Greek urban popular music from early 20th-century Asia Minor.

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E-Mail: christidis@mdw.ac.at