Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

Joanne Dekis '08 - Senior Thesis
Scheide Caldwell House, First Floor Lobby

"To be Greek and to be Greek American are two very different things. I was born Greek, I was baptized in Greece, and I was a Greek every summer of my life when my family would visit our village in Crete. It wasn't until I started Greek School in 2nd grade that I was introduced to being Greek American. From the "Oxi" poems delivered on October 28th, to the dances performed in full Amalia costume on March 25th, I learned that Greek Americans were proud of their heritage.

In photographing the Greek Independence Day Parade in New York City this year, I hoped to get a take on this pride. I found exactly what I expected...over the top Hellenic spirit in every way it can possibly be shown. I feel that the humor in the pictures especially brings out this sense of pride; we Greek Americans are willing to look slightly ridiculous on select days every year in order to celebrate our heritage."

Scheide Caldwell House Lobby
List of Undergraduate Concentrators.

Please see the Mt. Menoikeion Seminar website for more information.

DIRECTOR:
Nikolas Bakirtzis (Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University)

WORKSHOP COORDINATOR:
Matthew Milliner (Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)

SURVEY PARTICIPANTS

GRADUATE STUDENTS:
Jamie Greenberg (Music, Princeton University)
Nikos Michailidis (Anthropology, Princeton University)
Cecilia Ramos (Architecture, Princeton University)
Nebojsa Stankovic (Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS:
Julian Smith-Newman(Columbia University)
Alexandra Courcoulas(Wellesley College)
Matthew Shapero (Columbia University)
 

WORKSHOP PARTICIPANTS:
Slobodan Ćurčić (Art and Archaeology, Princeton University)
Dimitris Gondicas (Hellenic Studies, Princeton University)

Temenos 2008 at Lyssarea in Arcadia

FACULTY
P. Adams Sitney, Visual Arts
Jeffrey Stout, Relgion
Daniel Heller-Roazen, Comparative Literature

GRADUATE STUDENTS
Michael Wang, Architecture

UNDERGRAUATE STUDENTS
Anna Bialek '09, Religion
Whitney Mosery '08, Classics
Sofia Tsirakis '08, Philosophy
Sherry Zhang '10, French and Italian