Dr THEOPISTI STYLIANOU-LAMBERT
RESEARCHER, VISUAL ARTIST, EDUCATOR
VISUAL VOICES ADVISOR
RESEARCHER, VISUAL ARTIST, EDUCATOR
VISUAL VOICES ADVISOR
Theopisti Stylianou-Lambert is a researcher, visual artist and educator. She is currently associate professor and chair of the department of Multimedia and Graphic Arts at the Cyprus University of Technology, the coordinator of its “Visual Sociology and Museum Studies Lab” and the group leader of “Museum Lab” at Cyens research centre. Her research and artistic interests include museum studies and visual sociology with an emphasis on photography. Theopisti has published widely on museums and photography, is the co-author of The Political Museum (Routledge, 2016) and the editor of Museums and Visitor Photography (MuseumsEtc, 2016), Museums and Photography: Displaying Death (co-editor, Routledge, 2017), Photography and Cyprus: Time, Place, Identity (co-editor, I.B.Tauris, 2014), and Re-envisioning Cyprus(co-editor, University of Nicosia Press, 2010). She received her PhD in Museum Studies from the University of Leicester (UK) and her MA in Visual Arts/ Museum Education from the University of Texas at Austin (USA). Theopisti is also the recipient of several scholarships and awards including a Smithsonian Fellowship in Museum Practice (USA), a Fulbright Fellowship (USA) and an Arts and Humanities Research Council Award (UK).