Katerina-Sofia Katsikopoulou is a graduate of the Department of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her postgraduate studies at the Department of Social Anthropology of Panteion University, Athens. She has been involved in the design and implementation of educational programmes with historical content. Her research interests focus on the study of societies of the past and their perceptions, as well as on identity, alterity and self-determination.