PRINCETON UNIVERSITY
Program in Hellenic Studies

Maria Kaliambou received her first degree in History and Archaeology at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1997), and her Ph.D. in Folklore Studies/European Ethnology at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (2005). Her dissertation on "Home – Faith – Family: Transmission of Values in Greek Popular Booklets of Tales (1870-1970)" has been awarded the "Lutz Röhrich prize" in Germany. Maria Kaliambou was a post-doctoral fellow at the University Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 3, France (2006). Her research interests range over folk narrative (with a specialization in folktales), Greek and international popular literature, history and theory of folklore studies, Southeast European cultural studies, and European philhellenism. She has worked on academic and cultural projects in Greece and Germany and has taught introductory courses at the department of Folklore Studies/European Ethnology, University of Munich.

Andreas Lyberatos received his first degree in Philosophy from the University of Athens (1993) and his M.A. in Modern European History from the Victoria University of Manchester (1995). He specialized in Modern Balkan History, first at the University of London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies) and then at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. His doctoral dissertation (University of Crete, 2005) is a study of the socioeconomic, political, and ideological processes which led to the formation of national parties in nineteenth century Philippoupolis/Plovdiv. Recently Andreas Lyberatos has been doing research on the Greek community of Varna. As member of a joint project of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Rethymno, Crete, and the Institute for Balkan Studies (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences), he published the bilingual (Greek and Bulgarian) catalogue of the Greek Archives of Varna (V. Todorov and A. Lyberatos, Katalogos ton Ellinikon Arheion kai ton Syllogon Ellinikon Vivlion tis Varnas, Sofia, 2006). His research interests include the emergence of Balkan nationalisms, the relationship between nationalism and religion and, more broadly, the processes and experiences of socioeconomic, political and ideological "modernization" in the Balkans during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Teresa Shawcross received her B.A. (1998), M.Phil. (2001) and D.Phil. (2006) from Oxford University, together with a Maîtrise from the Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle (1999). She held the position of Departmental Lecturer in Modern Greek Literature, Language, and History at Oxford (2003-2004), and she was awarded a Junior Research Fellowship in the Arts at Trinity Hall, Cambridge (2006-2009). Her interests are interdisciplinary, with her recent articles dealing mainly with the political, social, and cultural consequences of the fragmentation of the Byzantine Empire after the Fourth Crusade. Her doctoral thesis, a monograph on the Chronicle of Morea, is being revised for publication, and she is at present embarking upon a broader study of historical writings from the late medieval eastern Mediterranean.

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