Administrative-Technical Staff
Ophelia Greene
Office of the President
Since her tenure began in 2002, President Greene has recruited distinguished faculty, raised academic standards and dramatically increased fundraising, transforming Kempbelle into a selective, top-ranked college.
Sotiris Angelis is a PhD candidate and a member of i-Lab in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean. His research interests focus on Semantic Web, Knowledge Graphs, data integration and semantic trajectories. He received his Master’s degree in “Cultural Informatics and Communication” from the same Department, where he studied Web technologies, Linked Data, and application design. He holds a Dipl.-Ing. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His background and professional experience focus on software engineering, services integration and web development.
Chara Karavia provides administrative support to the MA Program in Cultural Informatics and Communication at the University of the Aegean. She holds a BA in Sociology from the University of Crete (2003) and a BA in Social Work from Democritus University of Thrace (2023). She completed her Master’s degree in Social and Historical Anthropology at the University of the Aegean (2007), as well as a one-year program in Pedagogical Training at ASPAITE Volos (2010).
From 2011 to 2019, she worked in Thrace as coordinator and administrative manager of Support Centers for Education, part of a Ministry of Education integration program for children of the Muslim minority.
She has worked as an administrative officer and research associate in multiple university research programs and has significant experience in the management of co-funded European and Development projects (ESPA).
Panagiotis Kargas was born in Mytilene. He is a graduate of the Department of Physics at the University of Crete.
He worked in the private sector until 1994. Until 1997, he was employed in Secondary Education as an Information Technology teacher. Until 2000, he worked at the University of the Aegean in the Department of Social Anthropology, and since then he has been working in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, in the position of Special Technical Laboratory Staff (S.T.L.S).
Duties: Responsible for organising, installing, and supporting the department’s computer laboratories; providing support to department users in the use of computers; installing and supporting the technical equipment in faculty offices, as well as studying, developing, maintaining, and managing the department’s local network infrastructure.
Erasmia Tzanaki is a member of the Museology Laboratory “Museolab”. She graduated from the Department of Traditional Music, of the School of Arts, of the Technological Educational Institut of Epirus, as well as from the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication, of the University of the Aegean. She, then, followed the postgraduate programme of Cultural Informatics, with expertise in Digital Cultural Products Design (Department of Cultural Technology and and Communication, University of the Aegean). She works on projects related to the use of digital technologies in museums and she designs web-sites and apps. Till recently, she also worked as a member of the educational programmes Museolab team, that took place in the Teriade Museum, in Lesvos. Finally, she is the administrator of the Museolab web-site, which she also designed.
Contacts:
Harriet Erickson
Vice President, Student Affairs
Wesley Clark was named Senior Advisor to the President in May 2018. An expert in corporate law, he teaches a wide range of courses including Contracts, Sales, Closely Held Business Organizations, Publicly Traded Corporations, Mergers & Acquisitions, International Law and International Securities Regulation.
Contacts:
Wesley Clarke
Senior Advisor to the President
Betty Bowman joined the faculty in 2002, and received tenure there in 2007. Before joining the faculty, she was a visiting assistant professor at Syracuse University College of Law. Prior to that, she was a legal consultant with JPMorgan Chase; a contract attorney for Cravath, Swaine & Moore; and an assistant prosecutor for the Ministry of the Attorney General in Toronto, Canada.
Contacts:
Betty Bowman
Acting Vice President for Finance
With over four decades of law teaching experience, Johnny Jones is a nationally-recognized constitutionalist who has received numerous awards for his teaching, including the first-ever Pioneer Award for his commitment and dedication to students from the FIU Student Bar Association in 2004. Since then, students have voted him “Professor of the Year” multiple times.
Contacts:
Johnny Jones
Dean, Diversity and Compliance
Dennis Ruiz was a member of the faculty at Texas Tech University School of Law, where she held the Alvin R. Allison Distinguished Professorship and received every teaching award the law school and the University conferred. She was the Distinguished Fulbright Professor of American Constitutional Law at the National and Kapodistrian University of Greece in 1992.
Contacts:
Dennis Ruiz
Acting Vice President of Administration
Vernon Lowe first joined the University in 2006 as Assistant Dean for Academic Support Programs. He served as Assistant Dean until 2013, when he became a full time lecturer at the College. He teaches classes relating to legal theory and reasoning, race and law, gender and law, and in the area of commercial transactions.
Contacts:
Vernon Lowe
Assistant Vice President for Communications