Position: Professor
Tel: +30210-7276174, +30 6977618994
Section:Theoretical Sciences
E-mail : npatsant[at]phed.uoa[dot]gr
Scientific discipline
Sport Sociology
Teaching
-Sport Sociology
-Olympism: A Sociological Approach
Research interests
-External and Internal Differentiation of and in the Sport System
-Technology, Sport Space and Time, Biological & Social Body, Sport Identities, Violence and Doping in Competitive Sports
-Globalization, Cosmopolitanism, Human Rights, and Olympic Sports.
Degrees
-Bachelor in Physical Education and Sport Science (1982)
-Graduate studies (1989-1993) University of Konstanz, Germany : Sport Science (Sportwissenschaft), Sociology, Sport Sociology, Sports Management (Verwaltungswissenschaft)
-PhD in Social Sciences (Fachbereich Sportwissenschaft) : University of Konstanz, Germany (1994)
Indicative Publications
1. Patsantaras, N. (2015). Can Sports Law Contribute to Regulating the Under-representation of Women in Sport-governing Bodies? A Case Study in Greece. Pandektis International Sports Law Review,11: 1-2, 128-138.
2. Patsantaras, N. (2015). Cosmopolitanism an alternative way of thinking in the contemporary Olympics. European Journal for Sport and Society, 12 (2), 215-238.
3. Patsantaras, Nikolaos (2014). Rethinking the issue of stadium football violence in Greece: A theoretical- empirical approach. Biology of Exercise, 3, 21-38.
4. Patsantaras, N. (2013). Using global sport ceremonies to activate Human Rights: An approach prompted by the Beijing Olympic Games. Pandektis International Sports Law Review,10, (1,2), 30-51.
5. Kamberidou, Tsopani, Dallas, Patsantaras (2009). “A Question of Identity and Equality in Sports: Men’s Participation in Rhythmic Gymnastics.” NEBULA: a Journal of Multidisciplinary Scholarship, Nebula 6.4, Australia, December 2009: 220-237. (online open access journal: Nebula 6.4 at http://www.nobleworld.biz).
6. Patsantaras, N.; Kamperidou, I.; Panagiotopoulos, P. (2008). Sports: Social Inclusion or Xenophobia? Pandektis International Sports Law Review, 7, (3-4), 404-415.
7. Nikitaras, N., Dallas, G., Patsantaras, N. (2009) : The parental evaluative tendency for the operational model of private camps in the Greek region. International Journal of Fitness,5, 2, July 2009: 13-21.
8. Patsantaras, Nikolaos (2008). Olympic Messages : Olympic Ideology and Olympic social reality. Choregia. Sport Management International journal, 4, 1, 55-65.
9. Kamberidou, Irene & Patsantaras, Nikolaos (2007). A New Concept in European Sport Governance: Sport as Social Capital. Biology of Exercise 3, 21-34.
10. Patsantaras, N., Mitrotasios, M., Zarotis, G., Sotiropoulos, A., Katsagolis, A. (2005). ‘Sinndimensionen des Olympischen Wettkampfs. Eine systemtheoretische Betrachtung’. In : Das Wissenschaftsmagazin der Deutschen Sporthochschule Köln. 2/2005 : 38-46.
