Visiting Lecturers

2008-2009

Konstantina Maragkou, Visiting Lecturer
Konstantina Maragkou is a historian. She received her PhD and an MPhil in Historical Studies from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Modern History, Economic History and Politics from the University of London. Her doctoral thesis, which was completed with the support of a number of funding awards, is titled The Wilson Government and the Greek Colonels, 1967-1970. She is currently a postdoctoral associate and Lecturer of Hellenic Studies at the Macmillan Center teaching courses in modern Greek and European history. She was previously the A.G. Leventis Post-Doctoral Research  Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She had also held visiting fellowships at the European Institute of the LSE, the Remarque Institute of New York University and the Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European Policy (ELIAMEP). Her research interests include Twentieth Century World History and Modern Greek History with special emphasis on Greece's foreign relations in the post-WWII era. Her current project involves the revision, expansion and publication of her doctoral dissertation on Britain and the Greek Colonels, 1967-1974. On various aspects of this era, she has given a number of presentations at conferences and published articles at peer-reviewed historical journals.

2007-2008

Giorgos Antoniou, Visiting Lecturer in History

2006-2007

Dimitris Kastritsis, Visiting Lecturer in History
Dimitris Kastritsis research interests include the political and cultural history of the Ottoman Empire (1299-1922) with a particular focus on the early and classical periods. The Ottoman Empire in the context of Islamic history, the Middle East and Southeastern Europe. The development of a distinct imperial ideology as the Ottomans came into contact with rival empires (Timurids, Mamluks, Safavids, Habsburgs) and its expression in a variety of media such as literary narratives, architecture, and ceremonial. Other fields of expertise include medieval Islamic history and philology, the Crusades, and Byzantium.

2002-2003

Anastasia Karakasidou, Anthropology, Fall 2002

Christina Katsougiannopoulou-Ewald, Anthropology, Spring 2003
Christina Katsougiannopoulou Ewald received a PhD in Early Medieval Archaeology from the University of Bonn, Germany, after previously studying Byzantine Art and Archaeology in Greece. As a lecturer at the Hellenic Studies Program she taught two seminars on Byzantine culture and was involved in the development of interactive language materials. Her research interests focus on Byzantine/ Early Medieval jewelry, material culture and social/ethnic identity as well as burial rites. She currently teaches at the Department of Fine Art at the University of Toronto.

2001-2002

Stathis Gourgouris, Comparative Literature, Fall 2001

Anna Stavrakopoulou, Comparative Literature, Spring 2002