Angelos Kissas


BA, Communication and Mass Media, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens; MSc in Politics and Communication, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE); PhD in Media and Communications (LSE).

Dr. Angelos Kissas is Assistant Professor and Chair of the Department of Communications (as of Fall 2024), where he teaches courses on media and communication theory and political communication. Angelos is also a Visiting Fellow at the LSE Department of Media and Communication, while prior to this, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cambridge. Outside academia, Angelos has served as adviser for communication and head of social media to the President of the Hellenic Republic.

Angelos’ research spans the field of political communication, focusing on digital populism, the role of ideology in political advertising, and mediatized politics in general, and power in today’s attention economies, among others, and has been published in several international peer-reviewed journals (e.g., New Media & Society; Discourse & Society) and edited volumes.

Angelos is the Books Review Editor of the Journal of Visual Political Communication, and a member of the Political Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) and the Populism Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA).