Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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Othon Alexandrakis received his B.A. (2001) and M.A. (2003) degrees in Anthropology from the University of Western Ontario, Canada.  His M.A. thesis “Between Life and Death: Violence and Greek Roma Health and Identity” explored issues related to cultural identity and health among the Roma (Gypsy) community of Athens.  He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Rice University in 2010.  His dissertation “The Struggle for Modern Athens: Unconventional Citizens, Shifting Topographies, and the Shaping of a New Political Reality” explores the emergence of new political identities in Athens focusing on the effects undocumented migrants, anti-establishment youth, and the Roma are having on popular perceptions and practice of citizenship.

Karen Emmerich received her Ph.D. from Columbia’s Department of English and Comparative Literature in 2010; she has a B.A. from Princeton University (2000) and an M.A. from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2002). Her dissertation, entitled “Seeing Things: Visual and Material Poetics in Twentieth-Century Greek Poetry,” explores the importance of visual and material form to the interpretation and translation of poetry. Karen Emmerich is also a translator of Modern Greek poetry and prose; her recent translations include Margarita Karapanou’s Sleepwalker and Rien ne va plus, Ersi Sotiropoulos’s Landscape with Dog and Other Stories, Amanda Michalopoulou’s I’d Like, and Miltos Sachtouris’s Poems (1945-1971), which was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006.

Elektra Kostopoulou received both her B.A. degree (2001) in History and Archaeology (with a major in Turkish and Balkan History and a minor in Greek Philology) and her an M.A. degree (2004) in Turkish and Balkan history from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.  Her M.A. thesis on the island of Leros at the end of the Ottoman era was published in Greek as a monograph entitled The Island of Leros as an Ottoman Province: History through the Books of the Local Elders (Athens: 2005). Elektra Kostopoulou received her Ph.D. degree in Ottoman History from Bogazici University, Istanbul, in 2009. Her doctoral dissertation on "The 'Muslim Millet' of Autonomous Crete" won the University's Award on Academic Excellence in Research. The dissertation examines the anguished transformation of the Eastern Mediterranean during the age of late modernity, through the examination of a focused case study: the Muslim citizens of Autonomous Crete. Elektra Kostopoulou has taught (2006-10) at the Department of History, Bilgi University, Istanbul, as teaching assistant, instructor, and assistant professor.

Dimitris Kousouris studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens (2000) and pursued his graduate studies in the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, where he received a Master's degree (2003) and a Ph.D. in History (2009). His doctoral dissertation examines the postwar (1944-1949) legal purge of the Greek collaborators as an individual case within the framework of the European post-war nation (re-)building process. He conducted research as a Fellow of the “European Legal Cultures” international project and taught Modern History at the University of Crete (2009-2010).

Post-Doctoral Fellows 2009-2010
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2008-2009
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2007-2008
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2006-2007
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2005-2006
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2004-2005
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2003-2004
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2002-2003
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2001-2002
Post-Doctoral Fellows 2000-2001
Post-Doctoral Fellows 1992-2000