Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies

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Georgios Anagnostou is an assistant professor in the Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, where he earned his Ph.D. in Modern Greek Studies, American Ethnic Studies, and Ethnography (1999). His research focuses on the areas of ethnic and immigration cultural studies, diaspora, modern Greek studies, and ethnography, where he has published widely. He is in the process of completing a book-length manuscript tentatively entitled "How 'White Ethnicity' Matters: Making Usable Pasts in Greek America."  [Last Updated 2006]

Averil Cameron received her first degree from Oxford and her Ph.D. from the University of London. She taught Greek and Roman, and subsequently Byzantine, History at King's College London from 1965 to 1994, with stays at Columbia University (1967-68), the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (1977-78) and Berkeley (Sather Lectures, 1986). She is the founding Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London. Averil Cameron moved to Oxford to become Warden of Keble College (an administrative position) in 1994. She is a co-editor of vols. XII-XIV of Cambridge Ancient History and was chair from 1997 to 2005 of the Prosopography of the Byzantine World (http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/PBE/). Her books include Procopius and the Sixth Century (1985) and Christianity and the Rhetoric of Empire (1991).  [Last Updated 2006]

May Chehab is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Cyprus. She majored in French Literature, as well as English and American Literature, at the University of Athens (1983) before specializing in Philosophy and Comparative Literature. She earned her Doctorat in 1999 at the Université de Provence, Aix-en-Provence, with a dissertation on "Saint-John Perse et la Grèce." She also holds a degree on Political Institutions and Constitutional Law from the University of Paris-IV. May Chehab's research interests focus on new autobiography, the reception of Pre-Socratic philosophy in modern French Literature and the interaction between literature and science. [Last Updated 2006]

Vasiliki Grigoropoulou teaches modern philosophy at the University of Crete. Her area of specialization is the connections amongst knowledge, emotions, and politics in early modern philosophy. She has published articles on Descartes, Hobbes, Spinoza, Locke, and Rousseau (in Leviathan, Axiologica, Deucalion, Politis). She is the author of Knowledge, Passions, and Politics in Spinoza's Philosophy (Alexandria Press: Athens, 1999, in Greek) and the editor of Spinoza's Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect (Athens: Polis Press, 2001, 2nd edition 2002, in Greek). Her book Education and Politics in Rousseau was published in 2002 (Athens: Alexandria Press, in Greek); she is the co-editor of Spinoza: Towards Freedom (Athens: Axiologica, 2002, in Greek) and the editor of J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract (Polis Press: Athens 2004, in Greek).  [Last Updated 2006]

Konstantinos Papageorgiou received his law degree from the University of Athens and his Dr. jur from the University of Munich. Since 1996 he has taught philosophy of law at the University of Athens, Faculty of Law. His publications include Harm and Punishment, Baden-Baden, 1994 (in German), and The Political Possibility of Justice, Athens, 1994 (in Greek). Autonomy and Responsibility, a book of essays on legal, moral and political philosophy, is currently being prepared. He has worked on the philosophy of criminal law, Kantian and utilitarian ethics, applied ethics, political philosophy with a special interest in Rawlsian theory, normative issues of nationalism and multiculturalism. He has edited and introduced Greek translations of works by important American moral philosophers. His more recent interests lie in the philosophy of international relations, the morality of war, and aspects of international distributive justice.  [Last Updated 2006]

Pinelopi Stathi, Director of Research at the Research Center for Medieval and Modern Hellenism of the Academy of Athens, was born in Istanbul and educated in the Zappeion High School. She graduated from the University of Lund, Sweden, with an M.A. degree in Classics and Modern Greek, and she earned her Ph.D. in History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1993. Her research focuses on cultural relations between Orthodox Christians and Ottoman dignitaries during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In her book Chrysanthos Notaras, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1707-1731): Precursor of the Greek Enlightenment, Athens, 2000 (in Greek) she explores the ideological movements of the Greek re’âyâs within the Ottoman world, their initiatives to establish schools and publishing houses, as well as their practices in the copying and distribution of books and manuscripts.  [Last Updated 2006]

Lela Aleksidze teaches at the Department of Philosophy, The Tbilisi State University, Georgia. Her research focuses on orphism, neoplatonism, and patristics. She has worked on the manuscript tradition of the medieval Georgian translations of John Chrysostom and the Pseudo-Dionysian Corpus. She has also studied the relationship of these Georgian translations to the Greek original. She has translated Petritsi's commentary on Proclus' Elements of Theology into German, and Athenagoras's The Resurrection of the Dead into Georgian.  [Last Updated 2006]

Athina Chatzidimitriou is a classical archaeologist who has worked as curator in the Archaeological Service of the Hellenic Ministry of Culture since 1994. She holds a first degree in Law from the University of Thessaloniki (1985) and a degree in History and Archaeology (specialization in Archaeology) from the University of Athens (1988). She received her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Thessaloniki (1999) with a dissertation, published recently, entitled Representations of workshops and commerce in the iconography of the Archaic and Classical Period. Her dissertation was supported by a scholarship from the Hellenic State Scholarship Foundation (I.K.Y.) and by the Österreichischen Akademischen Austauschdienst for study at the Institute of Classical Archaeology of the University of Salzburg. She has published several articles in journals, conference proceedings, and two separate booklets on archaeological sites and finds from Southern Euboea and on iconographical themes of vase painting.  [Last Updated 2006]

Stan Draenos received a Ph.D. (1978) in political science from York University, where he taught for 14 years before returning to Greece to serve as a consultant (1982-1986) to the Greek Secretariat for Press and Information. He was the editor-in-chief of the review 30 Days: Greece This Month. Since 1986, he has worked mainly as a communications consultant and a feature article, business, and speech writer. He is the author of Freuds Odyssey: Psychoanalysis and the End of Metaphysics (Yale University Press, 1982). During the last two and a half years he has been working on a biography of Andreas Papandreou.  [Last Updated 2006]

Eyal Ginio is Lecturer in Turkish Studies at the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He received his Ph.D. from the Hebrew University in 1999, with a dissertation entitled “Marginal People in the Ottoman City: The Case of Salonica during the Eighteenth Century.” In 1999-2000 he was awarded a Rothschild Post-Doctoral Fellowship, which he spent at St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, and in 2000-2001 he held a Lady Davis Fellowship at the Hebrew University. He served as a vice-director of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Research of Oriental Jewry between 2001-2003. His research and publications have focused on the social history of the Ottoman Empire, with a particular emphasis on eighteenth century Thessaloniki . He is currently working on a book on Ottoman society during the Balkan Wars.  [Last Updated 2006]

David Kennedy is a graduate of the universities of Manchester (1974) and Oxford (1980) and has taught at the University of Sheffield, Boston University. Since 1990 he teaches at the University of Western Australia where he is a Professorial Fellow in Roman History and Archaeology. He has been a Tweedie Exploration Fellow (University of Edinburgh, 1978); Member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (1986/7 and 2004) and Summer Visitor (2005); Fulbright Senior Travel Scholar (1986/7); Cotton Fellow (2004/5). His research interests lie in the history and archaeology of the Roman, Byzantine, and Umayyad Near East. He is the author/co-author and editor/co-editor of nine books and about 100 articles, and chapters. The most recent books are The Roman Army in Jordan, London (2004) and (with R. Bewley) Ancient Jordan from the Air, London (2004).  [Last Updated 2006]

Vincent C. Müller is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the American College of Thessaloniki, formerly chair of the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences. He studied Philosophy, Linguistics, and Modern History at the Universities of Marburg, Hamburg, London (King's College), and Oxford. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the University of Hamburg in 1999 with a thesis on "Realism and Reference." He has published papers on the philosophy of language (particularly realism and the work of Hilary Putnam), the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of computing. He has been working for the Center for Greek Language in Thessaloniki on several Greek dictionary projects (Kriaras, Georgakas) and a concordance (Seferis). He is currently preparing a book on Artificial Intelligence: The Basic Problems.  [Last Updated 2006]

Richard Clogg is an Emeritus Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. He previously taught at the Universities of Edinburgh and London, where, formerly, he was Professor of Modern Balkan History. He is the author or editor of a number of books on Greek history and politics, including A Short History of Modern Greece and A Concise History of Greece. He is currently working on a history of the Special Operations Executive in Greece and on a large-scale history of the Greek people in modern times.  [Last Updated 2006]

Lilian Karali is Professor of Prehistoric and Environmental Archaeology at the University of Athens. She holds undergraduate degrees in History and Archaeology and also in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies from the University of Athens. She did her postgraduate studies in Paris at the University of Sorbonne-Paris I and the Ecole Pratique studying in particular Prehistory and New Methods Applied in Archaeology, and she received her Doctorate in 1979 from the University of Sorbonne-Paris I. She is the founding director of the University Research Unit and the Laboratory of Environmental Archaeology at the University of Athens. Her books and her research focus on ecological and cultural approaches to past societies. Her main project now is the excavation of the Leontari cave.  [Last Updated 2006]

Salvatore Cosentino is Professor of Byzantine History at the University of Bologna. He earned a Ph.D. in Medieval History from the University of Torino in 1990, and he has taught as Associate Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cagliari. He began his research activity in the field of the Venetokratia by studying the social and economic system of the feudum in Venetian Crete (13th – 14th c.). He has studied the social history of early Byzantine Italy on which he wrote several articles. Among the Italian regions under Byzantine rule, he has focused on Sardinia. He is currently working on a prosopography of all the individuals mentioned in Italo-Byzantine sources (two volumes published to date).  In the field of Byzantine military literature, he is preparing a study on the "Naumachica" preserved in the codex Ambrosianus 119 B sup.  [Last Updated 2006]

Antonis Liakos is a Professor of History at the University of Athens where he teaches contemporary history and history of historiography. His main books are The Nation: How it Was Imagined by Those who Wanted to Change the World, Athens: 2006 (in Greek); L'Unificazione Italiana e la Grande Idea (1859-1871), Firenze: 1995; and Labour and Politics in the Interwar Greece, Athens: 1993 (in Greek). He is a member of the editorial board of the review Historein and of the European Science Foundation Network of National Histories in Europe (NHIST).  [Last Updated 2006]

Sevasti Trubeta holds an M.A. in Sociology from the Humboldt University, Berlin, where she earned her Ph.D. in 1998 from the Faculty for Social Sciences. Between 2001 and 2003, she was a member of the research staff at the University of Freiburg i.Br. She has lectured at the Friedrich-Schiller-University Jena (2003-04) and is currently a senior researcher at the Institute of East European Studies, Free University of Berlin. Her academic interests include theoretical and empirical research in the areas of minorities, Roma, migration, marginalization, nationalism, biologism and racism. Her current projects address Greek anthropological discourse in the first half of the twentieth century, as well as Roma migrants in Germany. Her latest book is entitled Constructing Ethnic Identities for the Muslims of Thrace: The Cases of the Pomaks and the Gypsies (in Greek, 2001).  [Last Updated 2006]

Elisabeth Yota is Maître de Conférences in Byzantine Art at the University of Fribourg, where she has been teaching history of Byzantine art since 1999. She previously taught as Maître de Conférences Associé at the University of Strasbourg, 2003-04. She completed her Ph.D. at the University of Sorbonne, Paris I, and the University of Fribourg in 2001, with a dissertation on "The Harley 1810 Four Gospels of the British Library: A Contribution to the Study of the Illustration of the Four Gospels from the Tenth through the Thirteenth Century." She is currently completing for publication her book on The Harley 1810 Four Gospels and related manuscripts from the Palestine-Cypriot area. Her first book, Byzance: Une autre Europe, has just been published (Geneva: Infolio, 2006). Her research focuses on the production, use, and illustration of the Four Gospels during the middle Byzantine period, as well as on the interactions between the Four Gospels, lectionaries, and psalters. She has published on little known illuminated manuscripts and iconographical themes.  [Last Updated 2006]

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