CURRICULUM VITAE
Principal Investigator
THEANO S. TERKENLI
Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, University Hill, Mitiline 81100, Lesvos, Greece.
Tel:++-30-22510-36414 (office), ++30-210-6197846 (home)
E-mail: [email protected]
Ι. Personal Information
STUDIES
 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, USA, Ph.D. in Geography
 University of Wisconsin – Madison, USA, M.S. in Landscape Architecture
 Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, B.S. in Forestry
9/1986 -10/1993
8/1983 - 6/1986
9/1978 - 6/1983
RESEARCH INTERESTS
● Landscape theory, analysis, planning and policy
● Cultural landscapes: perception, conceptualization, analysis, intervention
● Geographies of everyday life
● Cultural geographic perspectives in tourism and recreation
● Cultural change in contemporary societies from the “global” to the “local” scales
● The concepts of cultural identity, place, home and attachment in geographic thought and in the human
lifeworld
● The making and spatio-temporal change of the Aegean cultural landscape
● Tourism geographies of “development”, modernity and postmodernism
● Communication technologies and new spatialities of everyday life
● Humanistic methodological approaches in the social sciences
● Greece, the Mediterranean, Africa, North America, Europe
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
 Landscape Europe
 Landscape Research Group
 ICOMOS
 Mediterranean Rennaissance Program, International Geographical Union (IGU)
 Cultures and Civilizations for Human Development, IGU
 Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape
 Association of American Geographers
 Panhellenic Association of Landscape Architects
 Hellenic Geographical Society
 Panhellenic Association of Forest Engineers
EDITORIAL BOARDS/SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
 The Professional Geographer
 Journal of Sustainable Development
 The Geographical Review
 Tourism Geographies
 Tourism
 Geographies (also on the editorial board)
 Tourismos (also on the editorial board)
 Landscape and Urban Planning (previously on the editorial board)
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Department of Geography, University of the Aegean, Greece, Assistant Professor, 1994-present
 Elective Studies Program, University of the Aegean, Summer School, Assistant Professor, 1999-present
 Interdepartmental Post-Graduate Program in Tourism Planning, Administration and Policy, University of
the Aegean, Assistant Professor, 1998-present
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 Summer School “Landscape in a Changing World,” University of the Aegean, Lesvos, 19-28 Sept. 2012,
https://landscape2012.pns.aegean.gr; organizer and instructor (University of the Aegean, competitive grant)
Department of Geography, University of Minnesota
 Twin Cities, Instructor of GEOG 3378- Third World Modernization and Underdevelopment, Winter 1994
 Twin Cities, Instructor of GEOG 3321- Africa, Winter 1993
 Twin Cities, Instructor of GEOG 1301- Human Geography, Spring 1991
 Twin Cities (Extension), Instructor of Human Geography, Fall 1990 and Winter 1991
 Twin Cities, Teaching Assistant, 50%, 1986-1990
Department of Geography, Macalester College
Instructor of Home: A Regionalization of Our Everyday Worlds, Spring 1993
Inver Hills Community College
Instructor of Human Geography, Spring 1992
Courses taught in Greece and in the USA
 Cultural dimensions of network society (graduate)
 Themes in geographical mobility: tourism (graduate)
 Geography of tourism (graduate)
 Physical geography I: atmospheric systems
 Physical geography II: geography and physical environment
 Human geography of Greece
 Cultural geography
 Landscape analysis and perception
 Tourism and development
 Geographies of everyday life
 Landscape ecology (co-taught)
 Island development and planning (co-taught)
 Human geography
 Europe
 Political Geography
 Australia and Oceania
 Middle America
 Geographical analysis
 Africa
 Third world modernization and underdevelopment
 Home: a regionalization of our everyday worlds
II. List of most significant publications
BOOKS
 What is Geography? by Alastair Bonnett, editor of Greek translation, Athens: Ekdoseis Kritiki, 2010
 Contemporary Mediterranean Geographies, co-edited (first editor) with Louis F. Cassar, Dordrecht: Springer
(forthcoming)
 Human Geography: Humans, Society and Space (in Greek), co-edited (first editor) with Theodoros Iosifides
and Ioannis Chorianopoulos, Athens: Ekdoseis Kritiki, 2007
 European Landscapes and Lifestyles. Proceedings of the 21st Session of PESCRL, Myrina and Molyvos,
Greece, September 2004, co-edited with Zoran Roca, Theo Spek, Tobias Pleininger and Franz Hoechtl.
Lisbon: Edicoes Universitarias Lusofonas, 2008
 Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, co-edited with Anne-Marie d’ Hauteserre, Dordrecht:
Springer, 2006
 Geography of Tourism (in Greek), co-authored (first author) with Nikolaos Metaxides and Paraskevi
Raftopoulou, Athens: Hellenic Pedagogical Institution, 2004
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 The Cultural Landscape: Geographical Perspectives (in Greek), Athens: Papazisis and University of the
Aegean, 1996
CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
 Cultural Geographies of the Mediterranean Mountains (with Veronica della Dora), in Mediterranean
Mountain Environments, Vogiatzakis and Tzanopoulos, eds. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012
 From landscape to tourism and back: the emergence of a Greek landscape conscience, in Landscapes,
Identities and Development, Zoran Roca, ed., Aldershot: Ashgate, 2011
 Networks of dependency and partnership: problems and prospects of tourism, in Contemporary Mediterranean
Geographies, Theano S. Terkenli and Louis F. Cassar, eds., Dordrecht: Springer (forthcoming)
 In search of the Greek landscape: a cultural geography, in The European Lanscape Convention: Challenges
of Participation, Michael Jones and Marie Stenseke, eds., Dordrecht: Springer Landscape Series, 2011
 Landscapes of tourism in Mediterranean small islands, in Landscape Approaches for Ecosystem Management
in Mediterranean Islands, Elisabeth Conrad and Louis F. Cassar, eds. Malta: International Environment
Institute, University of Malta (forthcoming)
 Tourism versus Vacationing in the Islands of the Aegean, Greece, with Thanassis Kizos, in Greetings from
Europe: Landscape and Leisure, Annika van Dijk, Niek Hazendonk, Mark Hendriks and Hans Venema, eds.,
Rotterdam: OIO Publishers, 2008
 Human geography: basic concepts and theoretical positions (in Greek), with Theodoros Iosifides and Ioannis
Chorianopoulous, in Human Geography: Humans, Society and Space (in Greek), Theano S. Terkenli,
Theodoros Iosifides and Ioannis Chorianopoulos, eds., Athens: Ekdoseis Kritiki, 2007
 Cultural Geography (in Greek), in Human Geography: Humans, Society and Space (in Greek), Theano S.
Terkenli, Theodoros Iosifides and Ioannis Chorianopoulos, eds., Athens: Ekdoseis Kritiki, 2007
 Geography of Tourism (first author, in Greek), with Maria Constantoglou, in Human Geography: Humans,
Society and Space (in Greek), Theano S. Terkenli, Theodoros Iosifides and Ioannis Chorianopoulos, eds.,
Athens: Ekdoseis Kritiki, 2007
 One region-many stories: experiences and reflections from the 21st PECSRL conference in Greece, 2004, with
Theo Spek, introductory chapter in European Landscapes and Lifestyles. Proceedings of the 21st Session of
PESCRL, Myrina and Molyvos, Greece, September 2004, Zoran Roca, Theo Spek, Theano S. Terkenli,
Tobias Pleininger και Franz Hoechtl, eds. Lisbon: Edicoes Universitarias Lusofonas, 2007.
 Landscapes of a new cultural economy of space: an introduction, chapter in T. Terkenli & A.-M.
d’Hauteserre, eds. Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Dordrecht: Springer, 2006
 Towards re-worldment: conclusions (with Anne-Marie d’Hauteserre), chapter in T. Terkenli & A.-M.
d’Hauteserre, eds. Landscapes of a New Cultural Economy of Space, Dordrecht: Springer, 2006
 Tourism and Landscape, chapter in Michael Hall, Allan Williams and Alan Lew, eds. Tourism Geography
(Companion to Geography Series), Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004
 Landscapes of Tourism: A Cultural Geographic Perspective, chapter in Helen Briassoulis and Jan Van Der
Straaten, eds., Tourism and the Environment: Regional, Economic, Cultural and Policy Issues, Dordrecht:
Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2nd edition, 2000.
 Macedonian Cultural and National Identity, chapter in Darrick Danta and Derek Hall, eds., Reconstructing
the Balkans: a Geography of the New Southeast Europe, London: John Wiley and Sons, Ltd, 1996.
JOURNAL ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
 Imagining Mount Athos: Visions of a Holy Place from Homer to WWII, Veronica della Dora, book review in
The Geographical Review, (forthcoming).
 Tourism impacts on local life: socio-cultural continuity and change in Crete, with Marcia L. Bellas and Laura
Dudley-Jenkins, Aegean Geographical Journal, Vol. 16, No 1-2, pp. 37-52, June-December 2007.
 Human activity in landscape seasonality: the case of tourism in Crete, Landscape Research, Vol. 30, No 2, pp.
221-239, April 2005.
 New landscape spatialities: the changing scales of function and symbolism, Landscape and Urban Planning,
Vol. 70, no 1-2, Jan 2005, pp. 165-176
 Landscape research in Greece: an overview, BELGEO, No 2-3, 2004, pp. 277-288
 Landscapes of tourism: towards a global cultural economy of space? Tourism Geographies, Vol. 4, no 3, Aug
2002, pp. 227-254
 Towards a theory of the landscape: the Aegean landscape as a cultural image, Landscape and Urban
Planning, Vol. 57, 2001, pp. 197-208
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 Local perceptions of tourism impacts on place identity: the case of northern Crete, Tourism, Vol. 49, No 3,
2001, pp. 229-240
 The place of everyday life geographies in the production, reproduction and practice of cultural difference in a
globalizing world (in Greek), Geographies, Vol. 1, No. 1, April 2001, pp. 25-42, and in www.art-omma.org,
Issue No 5, Autumn 2001.
 Home as a Region, article in The Geographical Review, July 1996
 African Encounters with Domesticity, Karen Transberg Hansen, ed., book review in Gender, Place and
Culture, Vol. 1, No 2, 1994.
 Proposing a Behavioural Definition of the «Vernacular» Based on a Comparative Analysis of Behavior
Settings in Three Settlements in Turkey and Greece, in the Journal of Architectural Planning and Research,
Vol. 12, no 12, summer 1995.
III. Significant research achievements
CONFERENCE PUBLICATIONS
 Tourism and landscape: towards interdisciplinary analysis of tourist landscape structure, with Aikaterini
Goltsiou. To be presented at the 4th International Scientific Conference “Planning for the Future—Learning
from the Past: Contemporary Developments in Tourism, Travel & Hospitality”, Rhodes, April 3-5, 2009.
Also to be published in the Proceedings of the Conference (under publication)
 Skyscape as mirror of the human world: reflections on the symbolic landscape of the night sky. Presented at
the International Scientific Conference ”Urban Nightscape 2006”, Kifissia, Athens, Sept. 21-23, 2006. Also
published in the conference proceedings, Athens: Hellenic Illumination Committee, 2006
 The rural landscape of the Greek countryside: change in the productive systems and Conference of the Greek
Society of Agricultural Economy (ETAGRO) “Economy and Society Before New Challenges of the Global
Agro-alimentary System, Athens, Nov. 2-3, 2006. Also in the proceedings of the conference.
 The urban landscape in a world of contemporary change: geographical trends and characteristics in the
Greek landscape (in Greek). Presented at the Conference of the journal Geographies, “Metropolitan
Regions”, Thessaloniki, Oct. 21-24, 2005. Also in the proceedings of the conference (under publication)
 Landscapes of tourism: a cultural geographical approach. Presented at the International Scientific
Conference of ICOMOS, Tourism and Cultural Environment (by invitation), Cephallonia, 18-20 June, 2004.
Also in the Proceedings of the Conference, 2007
 Landscapes of tourism: a cultural geographical approach. Presented at the International Scientific
Conference of ICOMOS, Tourism and Cultural Environment (by invitation), Cephallonia, 18-20 June, 2004,
Conference Proceedings, forthcoming in 2005.
 Landscapes of tourism and questions of sustainability. Presented at the 2nd International Conference on
Sustainable Tourism Development and the Environment, Chios, 2-5 October, 2003, Conference Proceedings,
forthcoming in 2005.
 Communication technologies and new spatialities of everyday life. Presented at the Seminar of the Aegean:
Rethinking Radical Approaches, Naxos, 8-14 September, 2003, Seminar Proceedings, forthcoming in 2005.
 One space, many landscapes: geographical perspectives of landscape spatialities (in Greek). Presented at the
Workshop on the Rural Landscape at the Mercuri Estate (by invitation), Olympia, 19 July, 2003, Workshop
Proceedings, forthcoming in 2004.
 Cultural landscape and tourism: geographical dimensions (in Greek). Presented at the Conference of the
Panteion University of Athens, Greece: Environment and Society: Myths and Reality (by invitation), Athens,
1 November 2002 (by invitation), Conference Proceedings, forthcoming in 2004.
 A System of Agricultural Landscape Indicators for Greece. Presented with Thanassis Kizos at the NIJOS/
OECD Workshop on Agricultural Landscape Indicators (by invitation), Oslo, 7-9 October 2002, on the
OECD web site and in the Workshop Proceedings, Agricultural Impacts on Landscapes: Developing
Indicators for Policy Analysis, Nijos Report 7/03, Oslo, 2003.
 Tourism and Place Identity: Patterns of Continuity and Change in Hersonissos, Crete. Presented at the
International Conference Tourism on Islands and Specific Destinations, Chios, 14-16 December 2000,
Conference Proceedings (in CD form). Athens: University of the Aegean, 2002.
 The Place of Everyday Life Geographies in the Production, Reproduction and Practice of Cultural Difference
in a Globalizing World. Presented at the International Seminar of the Aegean, Towards a Radical Cultural
Agenda for European Cities and Regions, Paros, August 30- September 5, 1999, Conference Proceedings,
Athens: National Technical University of Athens, 2001, 213-227.
 The Question of Cultural Identity and the Sense of Belonging in Modern Greece. Presented at the
International Seminar of the Aegean, Space, Inequality and Difference: From “Radical” to “Cultural”
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Formulations?, Milos, August 27-31, 1996, Conference Proceedings, Athens: National Technical University
of Athens, 1998, 185-193.
 The Physical Landscape of Greece in Nineteenth-Century Painting: An Exploration of Cultural Images.
Presented with Fani-Maria Tsigakou and Ioannis Tsalikidis at the International Federation of Landscape
Architects (IFLA) Central Region Symposium on Art and Landscape, Athens, September 8-10, 1998,
Conference Proceedings, George L. Anagnostopoulos, ed., Athens: Panagiotis and Effie Michelis
Foundation, 2001, 618-632.
INVITED TALKS
 Over 60 international scientific conference presentations; over 40 publications in international conference
proceedings
 Key-note speaker to the Annual Meeting of Finnish Geographers and Graduate School/ Ph.D. examiner (by
invitation), Department of Geography, Oulu University, Finland, November 4-7, 2009.
 Networks of dependency and partnership: problems and prospects of tourism sustainability in the Aegean (by
invitation). Presented at the Mediterranean Renaissance Program Meeting, Rome, February 24, 2009
 Participation and presentations (by invitation) at the MRP (Mediterranean Renaissance Program) and
Cultures and Civilizations for Human Development Projects of the IGU (also member of their Steering
Committees) in Cairo 2-4 April, 2006, Rome 12-14 December, 2005 and Rome, 24 February, 2009.
 Understanding Cultural Landscapes (by invitation). Presented at the Conference/ Seminar/ Workshop on
“Cultural Landscapes of the Maltese Islands: Maintaining Character in the Face of Change”, Malta, Nov. 1114, 2008
 Greece and landscape: an unfulfilled relationship (by invitation). Presented at the Sheffield Conference on
the European Landscape Convention, Sheffield, Nov. 19-20, 2007
 The Greek landscape in the 21st century: challenges and expectations, the geographical perspective (by
invitation). Presented at the Scientific Symposium on the Protection and Promotion of the Greek and
Mediterranean Landscape, Cephalonia, Oct. 26-28, 2007. Also in the Proceedings of the Conference (under
publication)
 Research and Lecturship Grant, University of Waikato, New Zealand, July 2006; lectures at the Departments
of Geography and Anthropology, University of Waikato, to the Geographical Society of New Zealand and at
the Department of Geography, University of Wellington, NZ, 2006.
 Lectures at Ege University, by invitation from the Department of Geography, during a meeting of academic
acquaintance and cooperation between Greece and Turkey, Izmir, May 3-4, 2006.
 The cultural landscape in the world of contemporary change and the issue of local identity. Presented at the
conference of the Pancretan Netowork of Ecological Organizations, Golf Courses: Which Tourism
Development for Crete? (by invitation), Panormo, Herakleion, Crete, May 21, 2005
 Participation (and lecture) at the the NIJOS/ OECD Workshop on Agricultural Landscape Indicators (by
invitation by OECD as the representative of Greece), Oslo, 7-9 October 2002
 Lecturer in Ph.D. Field Course on Landscape and Seasonality, organized by a consortium of Northern
European universities, Haapsalu, Estonia, 6-10 May, 2003
 Seminar on the Mediterranean Landscape, Seminar at the Lebanese University of Beirut. Lectures in
coordination with the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (M.A.I.CH.), Beirut, Lebanon,
September 1999 and at the Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (M.A.I.CH.), Crete, Greece, April
1998
 Invited speaker/ lecturer of several graduate course lectures and seminars at Greek universities and of
geography classes to U.S. S.I.T. and other student groups
AWARDS
 Department of Geography, University of Minnesota -Twin Cities, Summer Research Fellowship, 1989
 Department of Geography, University of Minnesota -Twin Cities, Darrell Haug Davis Memorial Fellowship,
1988-89
 American Society of Landscape Architects, Certificate of Merit for Excellence in the Study of Landscape
Architecture, 1986-87
 School of Agriculture, University of Wisconsin -Madison, Tuition Fee Waiver, 1985-86
 College International de Cannes, Medaille pour l’Etudiant le Plus Meritable (award of merit), 1981
 College International de Cannes, Certificat de Hautes Etudes de Lettres et Civilization Francaises, Mention:
Histoire de l’Art, 1981
 College International de Cannes, Certificat de Hautes Etudes de Lettres et Civilization Francaises, Mention:
Grammaire, 1980
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 School of Agriculture and Forestry, Aristotelian University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Department of Forestry
Yearly Scholarship, years 1978-1983.
IV. List of Research Projects
RESEARCH PROJECTS
 VOLANTE (Visions Of LANd use Transitions in Europe) European Commission Project FP 7, Collaborative
project, integrated resource management based on land and land-use management (scientific coordinator for
Greece), Contract No: 265104, for the 2010-2015. Budget for the University of the Aegean: 250.480 euro
(http://www.volante-project.eu)
 PAM-INA (Perception, Attitude, Movement – Identity Needs Action), Comenius project (502077-LLP-12009-1-DE-COMENIUS-CMP) funded with the support of the European Commission, represented by the
Education and Culture DG, within the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme (researcher; Aikaterini
Klonari: scientific coordinator for Greece) Contract No: 502077-COMENIUS-CMP, for the 2009-2012.
Budget for the University of the Aegean: 39.887 euro (http://www.pam-ina.eu)
 Atlas of Cultural Landscapes of Greece (scientific expert and consultant), Harokopeion University of
Athens, Kostis Hadjimichalis (scientific coordinator), funded by the Latsis Foundation, Athens, 2008-2009
Budget for the University of the Aegean: 2.000 euro(http://greekscapes.gr)
 Europe’s Socio-Cultural Borders—Inherited Perceptions and the Modern Landscapes (Renewal),
ERASMUS INTENSIVE PROGRAMMES (LIFELONG LEARNING PROGRAMME, Erasmus Code: SI
LJUBLJA01) (with Aikaterini Klonari, partners) University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts (scientific
coordinator), 2008-2009. Budget for the University of the Aegean: 12,274.80 euro
 Cultural Tourism Cross-Border Development, University of the Aegean, Lesvos and EGE University, Izmir
scientific project (scientific coordinator for Greece), University of the Aegean, Lesvos, 2006-2009, Budget
for the University of the Aegean: 3.000 euro
 Promotion of Sustainable Tourism, INTERREG III B MEDOCC, Axis 4, Measure 2 (scientific expert and
collaborator). European Community Project INTERREG III, B, Paris Tsartas (scientific coordinator),
University of the Aegean, 2005-2007 Budget for the University of the Aegean: 185.133 euro
 Planning of Sustainable Development of the Municipality of Hersonissos, N. Herakleion, Crete, part of the
summer interdisciplinary research project of the School of Planning of the University of Cincinnati “Training
of the UC Faculty Through International Field Work: Integrating the Sustainable Development of
Communities into the Globalization Initiative, University of Cincinnati Faculty Development Council”;
Michael Romanos (scientific coordinator), University of Cincinnati, 1999
 Cultural Landscapes of the Aegean: A Film for the Museum of Natural History of Sigri, Lesvos (with
Christina Giourga); Andreas Troumbis (scientific coordinator), University of the Aegean, 1998-99 Budget for
the University of the Aegean: 102.714 euro
 Aegean Archipelago: Preservation and Management Plan for Randi Forest, Ikaria, Greece (basic member
of main research team); Konstantinos Sofoulis (scientific coordinator), University of the Aegean, 1997-99
 The Last Generation: A Videotaping Project of Cultural Parameters of the Island of Lesvos, Greece (main
researcher); Mary Snell (scientific coordinator), University of Southern Maine, 1996-97
OTHER ACADEMIC AND SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
 Co-founder and member of the Board of the Union for the Greek Landscape, 2010-2012
 Member of the Landscape Committee of the Ministry of the Environment, Energy and Climate Change,
Republic of Greece, 2010-2012
 Organizer of the 21st Session of the Permanent European Conference for the Study of the Rural Landscape in
Lesvos and Limnos, Greece, 15-21 September 2004, (www.aegean.gr/geography/PECSRL2004)
 Participation at the Second and Third Meetings for the European Landscape Convention by invitation by the
Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 27-28 November, 2003 and Cork, 16-18 June, 2005.
 Co-founder and co-organizer or the Hellenic Landscape Observatory, in coordination with the French
Institute of Athens, the University of Thessaly, the National Technical University of Athens, the Aristotelian
University of Thessaloniki, Harokopeion University and the Photographical Technological Institute of
Athens, 2003
 Examiner of human geography subjects at the annual competition organized by the State of Greece (IKY) for
graduate scholarships abroad, 2001, 2002, (2003)
 Advisor/ supervisor to several undergraduate and graduate theses and dissertations at the Department of
Geography, University of the Aegean and other University Departments in Greece
 Member of several scientific and organizational committees of international and Greek congresses and
conferences; discussant and session organizer, in various international conferences
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