Nikos Christofis – Curriculum Vitae [email protected]; mob. +35799-203664 or visit www.nchristofis.com

PERSONAL DATA Name: Nikos Christofis Date of Birth: 29.5.1981 Citizenship: Cypriot and Hellenic Affiliation: PhD Candidate, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Erik-Jan Zürcher (primary) and Prof. Dr. Sia Anagnostopoloulou Dissertation Topic: EDA – TİP. Socialist Contest on Cyprus. From Anti-Imperialism to Nationalism.

EDUCATION 2009 – (in progress)  PhD Candidate, Turkish Studies Department, Leiden Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands Status: Writing the final chapter of my dissertation 2009 – 2010  Erasmus Program (research), The Atatürk Institute for Modern Turkish History, Boğaziçi University, , Turkey Status: Research in the Turkish Archives of Tarih Vakfı and TÜSTAV. “The Turkish Left on Cyprus” 2007 – 2009  MPhil, Turkish Studies Department, Institute for Area Studies (LIAS), Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands (advanced to PhD) 2003 – 2004  M.A., Middle Eastern Studies Department, University of Manchester, Manchester, Great Britain Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ferozee Yasamee Thesis: “Some Greek Views on Turkey, 1919-1922” [based on archival research in the newspapers of during the period 1919-1922] 1999 – 2003  B.A., Turkish Studies Department, , Nicosia, Cyprus Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Niyazi Kızılyürek Thesis: “Constitutional Development in Turkey, 1876-2000”

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE June 2012  Research Assistant, Cyprus Critical History Archive project (CCHA), Association for Historical Dialogue and Research (AHDR), Nicosia, Cyprus

April 2012  Subtitling (Cyprus Film Days, 2012)

March 2012  Educational Seminar concerning the State Examinations for Foreign Languages, Thessaloniki, Greek Ministry of Education in cooperation with the University of , 4 March 2012

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Nikos Christofis – Curriculum Vitae [email protected]; mob. +35799-203664 or visit www.nchristofis.com

November 2011  Member of the preparatory team for the State Proficiency Examination in Turkish, Research Centre for Teaching, Testing and Assessment, Greek Ministry of Education in cooperation with the University of Athens

June 2011 – September 2011  Writing a Turkish Grammar on behalf of the publishing house Linguaphone Ltd, Athens, Greece

September 2010 – May 2011  Turkish Language Instructor, National Bank of Greece (training 3 groups of high-rank employees of National Bank of Greece), Athens

September 2010 – May 2011  Turkish Language Instructor, Foreign Language School Eurorizon, Athens

March 2010  Subtitling (Cyprus Film Days, 2010)

February 2010 -  Freelance Translator (Greek to English and vice versa)

January 2007 -  www.artfools.gr (reviews, interviews, articles)

February – July 2006  Member of the Preparatory Team handling databases in order to prepare the findings for the conference İstanbul’da Buluşma, Bugün ve Yarın, 1-2 July 2006, Hilton Hotel, Istanbul. The papers of the conference were published under the same title by the Kaleidoskopio publishing house and in cooperation with the Centre of Minority Groups in 2009

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS

2007 – 2010  State Scholarship Foundation (IKY), Greece

ACTIVITIES

 Member of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA)  Member of the Greek Politics Specialist Group (GPSG), UK's Political Studies Association

PUBLICATIONS

Books  Türkçe, Linguaphone Institute Limited, London & M. Levis AE, Athens, 2011 (revised, updated and annotated – 8-book series) [original 64 p. – revised 216 pp.]

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Nikos Christofis – Curriculum Vitae [email protected]; mob. +35799-203664 or visit www.nchristofis.com Scientific Articles  Nikos Christofis, Apostolos Stagiannis, Christos Kollias, Stefanos Papadamou, “The Istanbul Stock Market’s Reaction to Terrorist Attacks” submitted in Applied Economics  Nikos Christofis, Apostolos Stagiannis, Christos Kollias, Stefanos Papadamou, “Terrorism and Capital Markets: The Effects of the Istanbul Bombings” expected in the Proceedings of the 6th Annual South–East European Doctoral Student Conference, 24-25 September 2012, Thessaloniki, Greece

Non-Scientific Articles Avgi (newspaper of Athens, Greece)  “AKP: Re-Muslimization or Muslim Democratization?”, Avgi, 20.12.2009  “Say Goodbye to the Netherlands You Knew…”, Avgi, 23.12.2007  “Fasting as Identification”, Avgi, 17.12.2006

Eleftheria (newspaper of Larissa, Greece)  “Re-Signifying Kemalism”, Eleftheria, 9.1.2012  “The International Law on Minorities” Reply to Ms. Papadopoulou, Εleftheria, 5.5.2009  “State-Society: A Problematic Relationship”, Eleftheria, 12.1.2009  “Yaşa Paşam”, Eleftheria, 20.11.2005  “Islamism, Kemalism and European Union”, Eleftheria, 15.12.2004  “Cyprus: What Went Wrong?”, Eleftheria, 11.7.2004

Working Papers  N. Christofis, et al. (2010). “Terrorism and Capital Markets: The Effects of the Istanbul Bombings”, Economics of Security Working Paper 31, Berlin: Economics of Security

 N. Christofis, “Enosis in the Left Discourse. EDA’s Talks in the Greek Parliament“, 4th Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus, Hellenic Observatory, European Institute, London School of Economics, 25-26 June, 2009

Conferences  (with Apostolos Stagiannis, Christos Kollias and Stephanos Papadamou), “Terrorism and Capital Markets: The Effects of the Istanbul Bombings”, 7th South East European Doctoral Student Conference, 24-25 September 2012 Thessaloniki, Greece

 “Re-interpreting the past through the looking-glass: The 1821 Greek Revolution in the Rhetoric of the United Democratic Left”, 22nd Biennial international symposium, Modern Greek Studies Association, Hellenic Studies Program, New York University, 13-16 October 2011

 “Conflict within the Turkish Left: TİP and Yön on the Cyprus Issue” in Columbia University’s Seminar in Ottoman and Turkish Studies, “Ottomans/Turks in Conflict, 1800-2010: New Approaches”, Sponsored by

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Nikos Christofis – Curriculum Vitae [email protected]; mob. +35799-203664 or visit www.nchristofis.com Columbia University’s Middle East Institute and University Seminars, Columbia University, New York, 28-30 April 2011

 (with Apostolos Stagianis, Christos Kollias and Stefanos Papadamos), “Economic and Political Implications from Terrorist Attacks in Istanbul”, 14th Annual International Conference on Economics and Security, 17-18 June 2010, Izmir, Turkey

 “Enosis in the Left Discourse: EDA’s Talks in the Greek Parliament”, 4th Hellenic Observatory Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus, London School of Economics, 25-26 June 2009

 “Yön Between Anti-Imperialism and Nationalism: Cyprus as a Case study”, 9th Conference in Critical Political Theory, University of Essex, 12-13 June 2008

 “Turkish Left and Cyprus in the 1960s”: TIP and YON. First Remarks”, 12th PhD Symposium, University of Crete, 18 July 2007 (in Greek)

 “Kemalist Politics and the Left in Turkey, 1923-1938”, PhD Symposium, Balkan, Slavic and Middle Eastern Studies Department, University of Makedonia, 2 November 2005 (in Greek)

Languages

 Greek (native)  English (fluent) – [Proficiency of Michigan, USA – Teaching License, Greek Ministry of Education]  Turkish (excellent) – [Istanbul University Diploma – Teaching License, Greek Ministry of Education]  Dutch (beginner)

Additional Knowledge

 Microsoft Office (Word, Power Point, Access, Excel)

References

Dr. Erik-Jan Zürcher Dr. Sia Anagnostopoulou Dr. Niyazi Kızılyürek International Institute of of Social University of Cyprus Turkish Social History, Amsterdam and Political Sciences and Middle Eastern Studies and Leiden University 136 Syggrou Avenue Department P.O. Box 2169 Athens, Greece P.O. Box 20537 1000 CD Amsterdam, E-mail: [email protected] 75 Kallipoleos Avenue The Netherlands Tel. : + 30 210 9201821 Nicosia, Cyprus Email: [email protected] E-mail: [email protected] Tel.: +31 20 6685866 Tel. : + 357 22 892150

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