PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

The Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

The Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund at Princeton University was established in 1979 through the generosity of Stanley J. Seeger '52. The purpose of the Fund is to "advance the understanding of the culture of ancient Greece and its influence ... and to stimulate creative expression and thought in and about modern Greece." Income from the Fund is administered by the Committee on Hellenic Studies for the Trustees of the Fund. Hellenic Studies activities during the academic year 2000-2001 are outlined in this report.

Trustees of the Stanley J. Seeger Hellenic Fund

Stanley J. Seeger, President
Harold T. Shapiro, Vice President
Thomas Wright, Esq., Secretary
William G. Bowen
The Hon. Robert V. Keeley
Joseph M. Lynch, Esq.
Jeremiah P. Ostriker

THE PROGRAM IN HELLENIC STUDIES

The Program in Hellenic Studies is administered by an interdepartmental committee under the general direction of the Council of the Humanities. The Program supports faculty positions and offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum, as well as graduate opportunities in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Also, the Program sponsors a series of fellowship programs, scholarly exchanges with Greece, conferences, cultural activities, library acquisitions, and publications.

Committee on Hellenic Studies

Chair
Alexander Nehamas, Philosophy; Comparative Literature; Council of the Humanities
Executive Director
Dimitri Gondicas, Classics; Hellenic Studies
Interdepartmental Committee
Nancy Bermeo, Politics
William H. Branson, Economics; Woodrow Wilson School
Slobodan Curcic, Art and Archaeology
Michael Doyle, Politics, Woodrow Wilson School
Robert Fagles, Comparative Literature
John Gager, Religion
Suzanne Keller, Sociology
Josiah Ober, Classics
Froma Zeitlin, Classics; Comparative Literature

HELLENIC STUDIES FACULTY

Program Faculty
Dimitri Gondicas, Classics; Hellenic Studies
Molly Greene, History; Hellenic Studies
Tia Kolbaba, History; Hellenic Studies
Ruth Webb, Classics
Andromache Karanika, Hellenic Studies

Visiting Faculty
Peter Bien, Comparative Literature, Hellenic Studies
Andrew Szegedy-Maszak, Classics; Hellenic Studies

Emeriti Faculty
Richard Burgi, Slavic Languages and Literatures; Hellenic Studies
W.R. Connor, Classics
Edmund Keeley, English; Creative Writing; Hellenic Studies

VISITING FACULTY

Peter Bien (Dartmouth College) spent the spring semester at Princeton as Visiting Professor, teaching a Freshman Seminar "Odysseus Across the Centuries." He pursued research on the correspondence of Nikos Kazantzakis

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (Wesleyan University) was a Visiting Professor in the Department of Classics and the Program in Hellenic Studies during the fall semester. He taught a seminar on "Artists, Writers, and Travelers in Greece and Italy" and curated, with Don Skemer (Firestone Library) the exhibition "The Light of Ancient Athens: A Photographic Journey by Felix Bonfils, 1868-1875" (Exhibition Gallery, Firestone Library, April 22, 2001-October 7, 2001).

FACULTY AWARD

Alexander Nehamas and Dimitri Gondicas were honored by the Academy of Athens for their contributions to scholarship in Hellenic Studies and their work for the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton.

INSTRUCTION IN HELLENIC STUDIES

COURSES OFFERED

The Program in Hellenic Studies offers a comprehensive undergraduate curriculum in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies leading to a Certificate in Hellenic Studies. Hellenic Studies courses complement over forty other courses in Classics, Classical Archaeology, Late Antique, and Byzantine Studies, offered by several University departments.

Spring

UNDERGRADUATE CONCENTRATORS

Three members of the Class of 2001 received a Certificate in Hellenic Studies this year, on the basis of course work and a senior thesis completed under the Program in Hellenic Studies:

Christopher G. Bradley (Classics) Meaning What You Say: The Problem of Praise in Classical and
Late Antiquity

Tanya Eleni Kalivas (History) Voices of Protest: Greek Women in Opposition to the Colonels' Rule, 1967-1974

Peter C. Nomikos (History) Philanthropy and Imperialism: The Historical Precedents of the
Greek Refugee Loan, 1923-24
[WINNER, HELLENIC STUDIES SENIOR THESIS PRIZE]

This year's Hellenic Studies concentrators, as well as several other students associated with the Program, earned distinctions and awards:

Christopher G. Bradley '01 (Highest Honors, Classics) was Salutatorian for the Class of 2001. He also received the Charles A. Steele Prize, the Clarendon Award, University of
Oxford and was elected to the Phi Beta Kappa Society. Tanya E. Kalivas '01 (History) received the 2001 Don Betterton Women's Soccer Award. Peter C. Nomikos '01 (History) was awarded the Hellenic Studies Senior Thesis Prize.

Stefanos N. Geroulanos '01 (Honors, History) was elected to membership in the Phi Beta Kappa Society and will pursue graduate study at Johns Hopkins University.

A number of graduate students currently enrolled in various University departments specialize in areas related to Byzantine or Modern Greek Studies. Many of them participate in an informal graduate student reading group which meets every week under the direction of Program faculty.

Each year, the Program in Hellenic Studies offers a limited number of full or partial fellowships for graduate work in Hellenic Studies. During the academic year 2000-2001, the following students are being supported by a generous grant from the J.F. Costopoulos Foundation:

Maria Andrioti Art & Archaeology
Petros Babasikas Architecture
Nikolas Bakirtzis Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Dimitrios Dentsoras Philosophy: Classical Philosophy
Antonis Ellinas Politics
Nataly Gattegno Architecture
Kyriaki Karoglou Art & Archaeology: Classical Archaeology
Roxani Margariti Near Eastern Studies: Arabic and Byzantine History
Georgios Mentzos Music: Renaissance and Modern Greek Music
Yannis Papadoyannakis Religion: Eastern Christianity
Christine Philliou History: Ottoman, Turkish, and Modern Greek History
Irene Seiradaki Classics

Stanley J. Seeger graduate fellowships or prizes for the academic year 2000-2001 were awarded to:

Kutlu Akalin History: Byzantine History
Alexander Bueno-Edwards History: Byzantine History
Yumna Masarwa Art & Archaeology: Byzantine and Islamic Art and Architecture
Marina Mihaljevic Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Jelena Trkulja Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Ipek Yosmaoglu Near Eastern Studies: Modern Greek and Turkish History

In addition to the above, the following graduate students are associated with the Program during the academic year 2000-2001:

Lisa Bailey History: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
S.M. Can Bilsel Architecture
Kimberly Bowes Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art and Architecture
Scott Bruce History: Byzantine History
Katherine Dhuey Art & Archaeology: Classical Archaeology
Ramsey El-Assal Music: Byzantine and Arabic Music
Ludovico Geymonat Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art
George Harne Music: Byzantine Music
Elizabeth Hough Anthropology
Christopher Lee Classics: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
Christopher MacEvitt History: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
Volker Lorenz Menze History: Late Antique and Early Byzantine History
Milen Petrov Near Eastern Studies: Balkan History
Alessandra Ricci Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Art
Rupinder Singh Architecture
Stefanie Tcharos Music: Modern Greek Music
Peter Turner Classics
Helen Deborah Walberg Art & Archaeology: Renaissance/Byzantine Art

Anastasios G. Papademetriou (Ph.D., Near Eastern Studies) defended his dissertation entitled Ottoman Tax Farming and the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate: An Examination of State and Church in Ottoman Society (15th-16th Century). He was offered a tenure-track position at Stockton State College, New Jersey and will teach courses on Southeastern Europe, the Middle East and modern Hellenism. Andromache Karanika (Classics and Hellenic Studies) is completing her dissertation on "The Work of Poetry and the Poetics of Work," focussing on women's work songs in early Greek literature and in modern Greek literature and folk tradition.

Program students earned a number of fellowships and distinctions this year: Kyriaki Karoglou (Art & Archaeology and Hellenic Studies) was awarded a Homer Thompson Fellowship from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for academic year 2001-2002 for dissertation research. Christine Philliou (History and Hellenic Studies) was awarded a SSRC Fellowship and a fellowship from the American Research Institute in Turkey for her dissertation research on "Ottoman Power and Local Society in the Nineteenth Century: The Case of Samos" during academic year 2001-2002. Ipek Yosmaoglu (Near Eastern Studies and Hellenic Studies) was awarded the Edward Capps Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for academic year 2001-2002. She will pursue dissertation research on "Peasants, Rebels, Brigands: Conformity and Resistance in a Macedonian Town, Serres: 1902?1913."

Four new graduate students in Hellenic Studies will join the Program in the fall of 2001:
Arion Melidones (Anthropology); Loukas Karentzos (Art & Archaeology: Byzantine Architecture); David Michelson (History: Byzantine History); and Nancy Khalek (History: Late Antiquity, Early Christianity and Islam).

Ying Lin, a Ph.D. student from Zhongshan University, China, was a visiting graduate student in History/Hellenic Studies/East Asian Studies during the spring term 2001. She is completing her dissertation on Byzantine-Chinese relations during the Tang dynasty, 618-907 A.D.

POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS IN HELLENIC STUDIES

Nikolaos A. Chrissidis (Ph.D. Russian History, Yale University) was the recipient of the Hannah Seeger Davis Post-doctoral Fellowship and spent the academic year revising his dissertation on Creating the New Educated Elite: Learning and Faith in Moscow’s Slavo-Greek-Latin Academy, 1685-1730.

Irene D. Fatsea (Ph.D. Architecture, MIT) was awarded the Mary Seeger O’Boyle Post-doctoral Fellowship for this academic year. She revised her dissertation Monumentality and its Shadows: A Quest for Modern Greek Architectural Discourse in Nineteenth-Century Athens (1834-1862) for publication.

Margarita Miliori (Ph.D. Modern History, Oxford University)was in residence during the fall semester as the Ted and Elaine Athanassiades Post-doctoral Fellow. Her dissertation title: The Greek Nation in British Eyes 1821-1864: Aspects of a British Discourse on Nationality, Politics, History and Europe.

Sophia P. Tsakraklides (Ph.D. Sociology, Yale University) was awarded the Mary Seeger O’Boyle Post-doctoral Fellowship for the spring semester (February 1, 2001 to June 30, 2001). She worked on revising her dissertation Structuring Civic Action in State-Dominated Societies: The Case of Greece for publication.

PUBLICATIONS

PRINCETON MODERN GREEK STUDIES SERIES

The latest book to be published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Modern Greek Studies Series is:

Mark Mazower (editor), After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State, in Greece, 1943-1960

OTHER PUBLICATIONS and FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

A special issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, (Dimitri Gondicas, guest editor) is under preparation (spring) and will feature a series of articles focussing on "Ancient Greece through Modern Eyes" (provisional title).

A catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts, Miniatures, and Bindings at Princeton is under preparation. Authors include Sofia Kotzabassi (University of Thessaloniki), Nancy Šev enko (Rutgers University), and Don Skemer (Firestone Library, Princeton University). This will be a collaborative project involving several units of the University, including the Program in Hellenic Studies, the Department of Art and Archaeology, Firestone Library, the Art Museum, and the Index of Christian Art.

A catalogue of Greek Papyri at Princeton is being written by Rosalie Cook. This is part of an inter-university preservation and publication project funded by the NEH.

A Princeton-Dartmouth team led by Peter Bien (Dartmouth) and Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton), with Chrysanthi Bien (Dartmouth), Andromache Karanika (Princeton: Classics and Hellenic Studies), and John Rassias (Dartmouth) has completed work on a textbook Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture to be published by the University Press of New England. A number of Princeton graduate students and alumni are involved in this effort as co-authors or consultants: Ronald Kim '96 (Linguistics), Silvio Levy *85 (Mathematics), and Gonda Van Steen *96 (Classical and Hellenic Studies). This project is supported by the Ivy League Language Consortium, the Program in Hellenic Studies, and other Greek and American foundations.

CAMPUS ACTIVITIES

HELLENIC STUDIES WORKSHOP

LECTURES

HELEN BUCHANAN SEEGER LECTURE

"Who Owns the Past?
Greece, England, Lord Elgin and the Parthenon Sculptures"
David Rudenstine
Dr. Herman George and Kate Kaiser Professor of Constitutional Law,
Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University
Law and Public Affairs Fellow, Woodrow Wilson School
APRIL 24, 2001

COLLOQUIA

VISUAL REPRESENTATIONS OF GREECE IN THE 19TH CENTURY
April 27, 2001

Andrew Szegedy-Maszak (Wesleyan University) "A Vision of Athens: The Photographs of Felix
Bonfils"

Yannis Hamilakis (University of Southampton) "Monumental Visions: Bonfils, Photography and
the Reception of Classical Antiquity in the 19th Century"

HISTORY OF ARCHAEOLOGY OF GREECE
April 28, 2001

Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann (Art & Archaeology) CHAIR/DISCUSSANT

Giovanna Ceserani (Society of Fellows in the Liberal Arts; Classics) "Placing Monuments of the Greek Ideal: Archaeologies of Magna Graecia and Greece in the Eighteenth Century"

Michael Fotiadis (University of Ioannina) "Aegean Prehistory Without Schliemann"

Sofia Voutsaki (University of Cambridge) "Worthy of Them:' Archaeology and Modern Greek Identity in the Nineteenth Century"

Emmanuele Curti (Birkbeck College, University of London) "Ancient and Modern Histories and Archaeologies:Modern Intellectual Battles for the Appropriation of
the Past"

Suzanne Marchand (Louisiana State University) "Adolf Furtwaengler and the Problem of
Archaeological Fieldwork;"

BEFORE NATIONALISM:
RELIGION AND IDENTITY IN THE ORTHODOX AND OTTOMAN WORLDS
May 11, 2001

Dimitri Gondicas (Hellenic Studies) WELCOME

Mark Mazower (Birkbeck College, University of London) INTRODUCTION

Laura Engelstein (History) CHAIR/DISCUSSANT

Nikolaos Chrissides (Hellenic Studies) "Delimiting the Commonwealth: Of Greeks, Helleo
Romans and Russians in the 17th Century"

Dimitri Livanios (University of Cambridge) "Christian Heroes and Simple Peasants: Balkan Peoples in the Greek Historical Imagination, c. 1602-1830"

Mark Mazower (Birkbeck College, University of London) CHAIR/DISCUSSANT

Molly Greene (History and Hellenic Studies) "Orthodox Merchants, Catholic Patrons"

Katherine Fleming (New York University) "Community and Identity in the Ottoman Jewish
Imagination, 16th-19th Centuries"

Madeline C. Zilfi (University of Maryland) "Religion, Statesmanship, and Ottoman Community in the Later Ottoman Centuries"

CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

THE LIGHT OF ANCIENT ATHENS: A PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNEY BY FELIX BONFILS, 1868-1875
Curated by Andrew Szegedy-Maszak and Yannis Hamilakis, this exhibition features photographs by Félix Bonfils and related materials (rare books, manuscripts, artifacts) from the Princeton collections.
23 April-7 October 2001
Harvey S. Firestone Library

GREEK SITES AND LANDSCAPES: AN ARCHITECT'S PERSPECTIVE
Drawings and Watercolors
by
Maria Fedorchenko, School of Architecture
April-June, 2001
58 Prospect Avenue

CONCERT

GREEK SONGS AND POEMS: FOR GEORGE SEFERIS (1900-1971)
performed by
Elly Paspala
with
David Lynch and Stavros Lantsias
November 10, 2000

PUBLICATIONS

PRINCETON MODERN GREEK STUDIES SERIES

The latest book to be published by Princeton University Press in the Princeton Modern Greek Studies Series is:

Mark Mazower(editor), After the War Was Over: Reconstructing the Family, Nation, and State, in Greece, 1943-1960

OTHER PUBLICATIONS and FORTHCOMING PUBLICATIONS

A special issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle, (Dimitri Gondicas, guest editor) is under preparation (spring) and will feature a series of articles focussing on "Ancient Greece through Modern Eyes" (provisional title).

A catalogue of the Greek Manuscripts, Miniatures, and Bindings at Princeton is under preparation. Authors include Sofia Kotzabassi (University of Thessaloniki), Nancy Šev enko (Rutgers University), and Don Skemer (Firestone Library, Princeton University). This will be a collaborative project involving several units of the University, including the Program in Hellenic Studies, the Department of Art and Archaeology, Firestone Library, the Art Museum, and the Index of Christian Art.

A catalogue of Greek Papyri at Princeton is being written by Rosalie Cook. This is part of an inter-university preservation and publication project funded by the NEH.

A Princeton-Dartmouth team led by Peter Bien (Dartmouth) and Dimitri Gondicas (Princeton), with Chrysanthi Bien (Dartmouth), Andromache Karanika (Princeton: Classics and Hellenic Studies), and John Rassias (Dartmouth) has completed work on a textbook Greek Today: A Course in the Modern Language and Culture to be published by the University Press of New England. A number of Princeton graduate students and alumni are involved in this effort as co-authors or consultants: Ronald Kim '96 (Linguistics), Silvio Levy *85 (Mathematics), and Gonda Van Steen *96 (Classical and Hellenic Studies). This project is supported by the Ivy League Language Consortium, the Program in Hellenic Studies, and other Greek and American foundations.

VISITING SCHOLARS AND WRITERS

VISITING RESEARCH FELLOWS

Every year, the Program in Hellenic Studies invites applications from Greek scholars who propose to pursue research at Princeton. Successful candidates are awarded Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowships. Last year's Visiting Fellows, their research projects, and the dates of their visit follow:

 

Visiting Research Fellows
Artemis ALEXIADOU Zentrum Für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft	Categorically Ambiguous Constructions	November – December
Maria ATHANASSOPOULOU University of Thessaly	The Greek Sonnet (1895-1936): A Study in Poetics	April – May
Roxane CAFTANZOGLOU National Center for Social Research, Athens	The Making of National Landscapes: Sacred and Profane Narratives of Space	April 16 - May 30
Eva CALPOURTZI Academy of Athens	Towards a Greek Historical Ethnography	September 1 – October 14
Manolis CHAROS Painter, Athens	An Illustrated Edition of Aesop’s Fables	December - January
Jane K. COWAN University of Sussex	Imagining/Managing Minorities and Majorities in the Balkan Borderlands: Arguments around Nation, Race, Membership and Entitlement in the League of Nations Minority Supervision in the 1920s	November
Alexandra DELIGEORGI University of Thessaloniki	Perspectivism and the Question of Truth	September – November 14
Angelos DELIVORRIAS University of Athens; Benaki Museum	Archaeological Puzzles Regarding Alcamenes’ Sculpture	February - March
Jehan DESANGES Ecole Pratique Ecole Pratique	Views of the Ancient Greek Geographers on Minor Africa	March – May
Michael FOTIADIS University of Ioanina	History of a Practice: Prehistoric Archaeology in Greece 1870s-Present	February – April 14
Maria GEORGIADOU Independent Scholar, Germany	Constantin Carathéodory: An Intellectual Biography (1873-1950	October 16 – November 29
Philothei KOLITSI Independent Scholar	Modernity and Tradition in Greek Prose Fiction of the 1920s	September – October
Nota KYRIAZIS Panteion University, Athens	A Comparative Analysis of Gender, Work Patterns and Decisions and Family Constraints	May – June
Ioanna KRALLI University of Crete	Athenian Honorific Decrees: 200 B.C. to 86 B.C.	March - April
Vassilis LAMBRINOUDAKIS University of Athens	The Sanctuary of Gyroulas in Naxos: Excavation, Cult, Marble	March – April
Urania LAMPSIDOU Hellenic Ministry of Development	The State Cultural Policies Phenomenon after WWII in Europe	November 16 – January 30
Ceasar V. MAVRATSAS University of Cyprus	Greek Identity in Greece, Cyprus and Greek America: from the Production to the Consumption of Nationalist Ideology	September – October
Georgia PAPADOPOULOU Greek Ministry of Culture	Musical Offerings at Delos and Delphi: Mimesis in Apolline Cult	November – December
Liana SAKELLIOU University of Athens	Contemporary Greek and American Women Poets	January – February
Athanasios SAMARAS University of Thessaloniki	The Political Socrates	January – February
Dimitrios STAMATOPOULOS Independent Scholar	The Study of the Archive of the Constantinople Holy Sepulchre Metochion of the Orthodoxe Patriarchate of Jerusalem	May – June
Ekaterini Lina VENTURAS Democritus University of Thrace	Young People in Post-War Greece (1950-1974): The Emergence of a New Social Subject?	December – January

Writer-in-Residence
David CONNOLLY Translator, Independent Scholar, Athens	Translation of contemporary Greek poets: Kiki Dimoula Titos Patrikios	January – February

SHORT TERM FELLOW

Michalis Chryssanthopoulos (Modern Greek and Comparative Literature, University of Thessaloniki) was a short-term visitor during the spring term 2001 for a series of faculty/graduate seminars on "Dreams in Greek literature, ancient and modern."

COLLABORATION WITH GREEK INSTITUTIONS

PRINCETON IN GREECE

SEEGER FELLOWSHIPS FOR SUMMER STUDY AND RESEARCH IN GREECE

Every year, the Committee on Hellenic Studies awards several Stanley J. Seeger fellowships to faculty, research staff, and students who propose to study, work, excavate, or do summer research in Greece. This year four faculty members and staff, five graduate students, and six undergraduates, were funded:

UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Bibiane Choi '03 Corinth excavation
Art and Archaeology

Annie Correal '02 Epidaurus excavation
Comparative Literature

Ileana Drinovan '02 Senior thesis research: "Greek sites on the Black Sea"
Romance Languages

Kelli Rudolph '02 Independent travel in Greece
Classics

Elisha Williams '01 Modern Greek Course at University of Crete; Athens College Teaching Fellowship
Classics

Hillary Yablon '02 Creative Writing Course at Athens Center Summer Program in Spetses
English

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Yumna Masarwa '02 Pre-dissertation research in Spain, Morocco, Tunisia, Israel
Art and Archaeology

Volker Menze '02 Attendance at International Byzantine Studies Conference
History in Paris

Marina Mihaljevic '02 Pre-dissertation research: Rome, Ravenna, Venice,
Art and Archaeology F.Y.R.O.M., and Serbia

Yannis Papadoyannakis '03 Pre-dissertation research: "Theodoret of Cyrrhus"
Religion

Jelena Trkulja '04 Dissertation research: "Articulation and Decoration of Late
Art and Archaeology Byzantine Church Facades: The Case of 'Morava School'"

FACULTY AND STAFF

Giovanna Ceserani Travel and research in Italy: "Magna Graecia"
Classics

Gisela Kam University of Crete Librarians Conference
Firestone Library

Robert Hutchings Travel ******************
Woodrow Wilson School

Carol Oberto Modern Greek language course at Athens Center Summer Program at Spetses
Hellenic Studies

James Seawright Travel to Asia Minor and Agean Islands
Visual Arts

Please contact Carolyn Hoeschele (carolynh@princeton.edu) if you do not wish to have your name listed here.

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