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Assoc. Prof. Konstantinos Giakoumis, Ph.D. Deputy Rector E-mail [email protected] Associate Professor‟s rank, “A. Moisiu” University, Durrës, Ministry of Education Registry No. 305. Ph.D. (2002) in Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. Thesis: The Monasteries of Jorgucat and Vanishtë in Dropull and of Spelaio in Lunxhëri as Monuments and Institutions During the Ottoman Period in Albania (16th-19th Centuries). Accessible via: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390688 B.A. (1995) in Pedagogical Studies, University of Athens, Greece. Qualifications - ERASMUS student at Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds, UK, (Feb-May 1994). Key University of Tirana, Faculty of Philosophy, Intensive Seminar in Albanian Language & Culture, (August 1996). Psychology as Social Science, Deree College, Athens (A), (Fall 1991). University of New York Tirana: Dr. K. Giakoumis leads and teaches the World History and Civilizations I & II, Art History I & II, Diplomatic History, co-taught an undergraduate course on Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict (Spring 2009), led and co-taught a graduate-level course on Ethnicity and Nationalism (Fall 2011) in the M.A. in Int‟l Affairs programme (collaborative provision with the University of Greenwich). At doctoral level Dr. K. Giakoumis leads the course “Teaching in Higher Education” since the academic year 2012-2013. Shkolla e Lartë e Edukimit: Developed and co-delivered a course on “Leadership and Management Assignments in Education” led by Dr. P. Dervishi, (Spring 2011). Centre for Democratic Education: Developed and delivered a training course on “Leadership and Organizational Culture in Education”, together with Dr. P. Dervishi, (Spring 2011). National Centre for Restoration, Albania: Delivered course on “Meaning in Byzantine and Post- Teaching Byzantine Art,” (Spring 2008). Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York: Delivered two graduate courses on “Meaning in Byzantine Art” and “Meaning in Late Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Art” (2007-2009). Orthodox Theological Seminary, Shën Vlash, Durrës: Developed and taught course on Post- Principal Principal Byzantine Ecclesiastical History, (2004-2005). Bournville College of Continuing Education, Birmingham: Modern Greek and Modern Albanian Language and Culture, (2001-2002). Late Byzantine and Ottoman political, economic, social, religious and cultural History and Art History in the Balkans, Balkan networks with the West, cultural heritage management and the cultural heritage of minorities, the rise of nationalism in the Balkans and the contestation of space and sacred in the Balkans. ch Projects ch Principal researcher in the following research projects: 1) “Generating Museum Awareness and Culture in Berat” (April – December 2014; project partially funded by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Albania). Research Interests Research 2) Interreg IIIA / CARDS programme with the title “COOPERATION FRAMEWORK FOR A HOLISTIC APPROACH AND EXPLOITATION OF ORTHODOX MONUMENTS Funded Resear IN GREECE AND ALBANIA” (involving an externally funded grant of 150,000 Euros). 1. Reviewer of the Journal of Religious History, published by the Religious History Association, Wiley Journals [http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/%28ISSN%291467-9809]. 2. Reviewer of the journal Politics, Religion & Ideology, published by Taylor & Francis [http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/ftmp21#.Vo5qgvkrK1s]. 3. Honorary Research Fellow of the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham (October 2003-September 2009). 4. External Research Fellow of the Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania (1997-present). As a member of a flexible scientific team that undertook the task of exploring, researching and Affiliations recording, cataloguing and publishing the surviving Christian monuments and, finally, determining a scale of conservation priorities. 5. External Research Fellow of the Institute of History, Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Albania (1998). A short fellowship for editing the publication of the corpus of church Professional inscriptions in Albania by Th. Popa (1998). 6. Member of the Greek-Albanian Philological Association and editorial board member of its Review Albanohellenica (2000-April 2016). 7. Member of the Christian Archaeological Association, Greece (1997-present). 8. Member of the Society for the Promotion of British Byzantine Studies (1995-2006). 1 “A. Onassis” Foundation‟s Scholarship holder. The British Academy, Humanities Research Board Award holder. The Constantine Trypanis Award for the best doctoral thesis in the United Kingdom in the Modern Literature and Language category (2002), The Hellenic Foundation, The Academy of Athens. Distinctions UNYT Award for Excellence in Teaching (2008-2009). I. BOOKS – MONOGRAPHS: 1. Giakoumis G. - Giakoumis K. (1994), Μεταβυζαντινή Αγιογραφία στη Βόρειο Ήπειρο, Ioannina: I.V.E. Ed. 2. Giakoumis G. - Giakoumis K. (1994), Ορθόδοξα Μνημεία στη Βόρειο Ήπειρο, Ioannina: I.V.E. [In Greek.] 3. Giakoumis K. (2002), The Monasteries of Jorgucat and Vanishtë in Dropull and of Spelaio in Lunxhëri as Monuments and Institutions During the Ottoman Period in Albania (16th-19th Centuries), Doctoral thesis submitted at the Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham. Accessible via: http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.390688 4. Γιακουμής Κ. (2015), Ο Κώδικας του Δοσιθέου, Επισκόπου Δρυϊνουπόλεως και Αργυροκάστρου: A.Q.Sh. F. 139, D. 2 (1760-1858), Αθήνα [forthcoming]. 5. Giakoumis K. (ed.) (2015), Water in Arts and Crafts in the Berat Region. 4th Century B.C. to 19th Century A.D., Tirana: Gentgrtafik – University of New York Tirana. II. BOOK CHAPTERS: 1. Giakoumis K. (2002), „The Ottoman Campaign to Otranto and Apulia (1480-1481)‟, in The Turks, edited by H. C. Güzel, C. C. Oğuz and O. Karatay, Ankara, v. 3 (Ottomans), pp. 189-197. Reappeared in Ηπειρωτικά Χρονικά, v. 38 (2004), pp. 277-309. Publications 2. Giakoumis K. (2009), “The Perception of the Crusader in Late Byzantine and Early Post- & Key Byzantine Ecclesiastical Painting in Epiros”, in Monferrer-Sala J.P., Christides V., Conference Papadopoullos T. [eds.] (2009), East and West. Essays on Byzantine and Arab Worlds in the Middle Papers Ages, New Jersey: Gorgias Press, pp. 299-323 (PART 1). 3. Giakoumis K. – Christidou A. (2010), „Image and Power in the Age of Andronicos II & III Palaiologos: Imperial Patronage in the Western Provinces of Via Egnatia‟, in Via Egnatia Revisited: Common Past, Common Future. Proceedings VEF Conference, Bitola, February 2009, Driebergen: VEF, pp. 76-84. 4. Giakoumis K. (2010), “The Orthodox Church in Albania During the Ottoman Rule (15th-19th century)”, in Rathberger A. [ed.] (2010), Religion und Kultur im albanisch-sprachigen Südosteuropa, preface by O. Schmitt, Frankfurt am Main: Pro Oriente – Peter Lang, pp. 69-110. 5. Giakoumis K. (2011), “The Perception of the Crusader in Late Byzantine and Early Post- Byzantine Ecclesiastical Painting in Epiros”, in Babounis C. [ed.] (2011), Ιστορίας Μέριμνα: Τιμητικός Τόμος στον καθηγητή Γεώργιο Ν. Λεοντσίνη, v. A1, Athens: ΕΚΠΑ Press, pp. 431-442. 6. Giakoumis K. (2014), “From Religious to Secular and Back Again: Christian Pilgrimage Space in Albania”, in Eade J. – Katić M. (2014), Pilgrimage, Politics and Place-Making in Eastern Europe: Crossing the Borders, London: Ashgate, pp. 103-118. 7. Giakoumis K. (2014), “The Perception of the „Enemy‟ in the Albanian National Identity- Building Process: The Dynamics of Transformation of the Image of Turks and Greeks”, in Stamatopoulos D. [ed.] (2014), Ottoman Past and Balkan Nationalism, [forthcoming]. 8. Kalemaj I. – Giakoumis K. (2014), “Oscillating between Inclusionary Autonomy and Secessionist Independence: Identification Shifts and the Dynamics of Albanian Perceptions of the Young Turks Movement”, in Stamatopoulos D. [ed.] (2015), Balkan Nationalism(s) and the 2 Ottoman Empire, III (The Young Turk Revolution and Ethnic Groups), Istanbul: Isis Press, pp. 155-171. 9. Giakoumis K. – Lockwood C. (2015), “Pilgrimage Centered at Text and Memory: The Lapidar in Qukës–Pishkash”, in Oei van Gervain V. [ed.] (2015), Lapidari, Brooklyn NY: Punctum Books, v. 1, pp. 89-96 (Albanian translation on pp. 97-104). 10. Giakoumis K. (2016), “Against the Imperial Past: The Perception of the Turk and Greek “Enemy” in the Albanian National Identity-Building Process,” in Stamatopoulos D. [ed.] (2016), Balkan Empires: Imperial Imagined Communities in Southeastern Europe (19th -20th c.), Budapest: CEU Press [forthcoming]. III. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS: 1. Giakoumis K. (1996-1997), “Εθνική Ελληνική Μειονότητα Περιοχής Αργυροκάστρου και Ελλαδική Εξωτερική Πολιτική. Τρία Ανέκδοτα Έγγραφα του 1911 περί της ανεγέρσεως νέου μητροπολιτικού κτιρίου στο Αργυρόκαστρο”, Ηπειρωτικό Ημερολόγιο, v. 18, pp. 65-71. 2. Giakoumis K. (1997), „Desire for the Divine and monasticism in post - Byzantium: the case of a new monastic society in Dropolis of Southern Albania‟, paper given in the XXXI Symposium of Byzantine Studies, Sussex, 21 - 24 March 1997, the abstract of which has been published in B. B. B. S. (1998), v. 24. 3. Giakoumis K. (1998), “Η Οικονομική Κατάσταση των Ηπειρωτικών Μοναστηριών κατά τα τέλη του 19ου αιώνα: Η περίπτωση της Ι.Μ. Σπηλαίου Λιούντζης (The Economic Situation of Epirotan Monasteries at the end of the 19th century)”, Ηπειρωτικό Ημερολόγιο, v. 19, pp. 303-320