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Project Team


Dr Chris Sandal-Wilson, Project PI
Chris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Archaeology and History at the University of Exeter. A historian of psychiatry, his first book – Mandatory Madness: Colonial Psychiatry and Mental Illness in British Mandate Palestine – was published at the end of 2023. As the project’s principal investigator, Chris will be researching how international humanitarian actors engaged with psychiatry and mental health in partition contexts, highlighting the complex politics and ethics of humanitarian psychiatry.

 

 

Dr Panagiotis Karagkounis, Post Doctoral Research Associate
As part of the PsyPartitions project, Panos will be researching the social history of medicine in relation to the population exchange between Greece and Turkey in the 1920s. More broadly, his research interests include the role of knowledge production in international politics, humanitarian responses to mass displacement, and theories of history. He recently received his PhD in Humanitarianism and Conflict Response from the University of Manchester with no corrections. He is currently revising his doctoral thesis, titled ‘Hellenising Refugeedom, Refuging Hellenisms: Humanitarianism, Refugees and the Making of Modern Greece, 1919–1955’, into a monograph. His thesis received the Manchester Jean Monnet Centre for Excellence 2026 Doctoral Prize.

 

 

 

Charlotte Mitchell, Project Co-ordinator
Charlotte is a project co-ordinator working within the Project Delivery Team for the University of Exeter. She has 14 years experience working across many areas of research administration, from Clinical Trials in the NHS to academic research with the University. As co-ordinator, Charlotte will be supporting the logistical and administrative aspects of the project.

 

 

 

Advisory Committee and Project Collaborators

  • Prof Ana Antić (University of Copenhagen)
  • Prof Fatih Artvinli (Acıbadem University School of Medicine, Istanbul)
  • Prof Mark Jackson (University of Exeter)
  • Prof Sanjeev Jain (National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences, Bangalore)
  • Prof Yael Navaro (University of Cambridge)
  • Prof Laura Robson (Yale University)