Vassilis Gerasopoulos is an assistant professor in the Willem Pompe Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology in the University of Utrecht. He holds a Bachelor in Law from the University of Athens and an MA in Global Criminology  from Utrecht University (cum laude). He obtained his PhD in 2022. His doctoral research focused on how the migration 'crisis' of 2015 reconfigured and produced the figure of the migrant as the cultural 'Other' in the Greek context. He is predominantly interested in the construction, expression and implications of structural and symbolic discriminations, as well as queer/ed and gender/ed harms and violence. He has participated and coordinated teaching projects regarding the dominant representations of crime, migration, sexuality and gender as well as the intersection between criminology and queer studies. He has published articles on the recent refugee crisis in Greece and the contemporary modalities of racism and othering, the representation of deviance in popular culture, and queer discrimination and stigma