Nickolas P. ROUBEKAS

Ass. Prof. of Religious Studies
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

nickolas.roubekas@univie.ac.at








Nickolas P. Roubekas is (tenure-track) Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He studied Theology (B.A. 2003), Religious Studies (M.A. 2006), Social Anthropology of Religion (M.Res. 2009), and received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies in 2011. He held teaching and research positions at the University of South Africa (Pretoria, ZA), the University of Aberdeen (U.K.), and the North-West University (Potchefstroom, ZA). His main areas of research are method and theory in the study of religion, the study of Graeco-Roman religions, the study of myth, ancient and modern theories of religion, and the disciplinary conjunction of Religious Studies and Classics. He is the author and/or editor of seven books (published by Bloomsbury, Brill, Equinox, Routledge, Wiley-Blackwell, and Vanias), more than twenty articles and book chapters, and numerous book reviews. He obtained his Habilitation in Religious Studies at the University of Vienna in April 2022. Since 2022, he is the Editor-in-Chief of NUMEN: International Review for the History of Religions (published by Brill), the official journal of the International Association for the History of Religions (IAHR).