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1 DIMITRI KITSIKIS Curriculum Vitae to 1998 from the University Of 1 DIMITRI KITSIKIS Curriculum Vitae to 1998 from the University of Ottawa TABLE OF CONTENTS Page I. General Information, Degrees and Employment ............................................................................................................................................. 2 Biographical Entries ............................................................................................................................................................................... 4 Publications on D.K's Life, Activities and Ideas .............................................................................................................................. 5 II. Books ..................................................................................................................................................................................................................... 8 III. Chapters and Contributions in Books ................................................................................................................................................................. 10 IV. Articles……………………. ................................................................................................................................................................................................ 12 V. Public Lectures and Papers in Scientific Meetings ........................................................................................................................................... 17 VI. Book Reviews ............................................................................................................................................................................................................. 25 VII. On Campus Activities .............................................................................................................................................................................................. 29 VIII Main Research Trips Abroad ................................................................................................................................................................................. 31 IX. Research Funding ..................................................................................................................................................................................................... 32 X. Scholarly and Professional Activities and Distinctions Outside of the University of Ottawa ......................................................................................................................... 34 XI. Graduate Courses Taught, University of Ottawa ............................................................................................................................................. 36 XII. Undergraduate Courses Taught, University of Ottawa .................................................................................................................................. 37 XIII. Poetry, Fiction and Art ............................................................................................................................................................................................. 38 XIV. Human Rights ............................................................................................................................................................................................................ 40 N.B. - For additional information and academic Service at the University of Ottawa, see annual reports submitted to its Department of History. 2 I - GENERAL INFORMATION, DEGREES AND EMPLOYMENT Dimitri Kitsikis Citizenship: Canadian, French and Greek Born June 2, 1935 at Athens, Greece. Married, four children. Specialization: Geopolitics. History of International Relations. Greece, Turkey and Cyprus in the 19th and 20th Centuries. History of China Special interests: World History Photohistory Present employer: Department of History, University of Ottawa Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Rank: Full Professor - Status: Tenured, Member of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. Since July 1996: Professor Emeritus. Member of the School of Graduate Studies and Research. DEGREES: B.A. Faculty of Arts, University of Paris (Sorbonne), 1953 3 M.A. History, University of Paris (Sorbonne), 1958 Ph.D. History of International Relations, University of Paris, (Sorbonne), 1962. Thesis director: Pierre Renouvin EMPLOYMENT: 1960-1962 Research attaché (attaché de recherche), Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva (Switzerland). 1962-1965 Research attaché, Centre of International Relations (C.E.R.I.) of the National Foundation of Political Science, Paris (France). 1965-1970 Research attaché, National Centre of Scientific Research (C.N.R.S.), Paris (France) 1971-1972 Chairman of the International Congress on the Socialist States, organized jointly by the *Centre québécois de Relations internationales+ of Québec and the *Centre d'Étude de Politique étrangère+ of Paris, France. 1972-1973 Visiting professor, Department of Political Science, Laval University, Québec. 1972-1974 Senior Research Scholar, National Centre of Social Research, Athens (Greece). (E.K.K.E.) Co-Editor of the Review of Social Research (Athens), the leading scholarly journal in the field of social sciences (including History) of Greece. 1975 Unofficial Representative of the Greek Government to Turkish part of Cyprus and Turkey. 1976-1979 Visiting Professor, Department of History, Deree College, Athens, Greece. 1981-1982 Visiting Professor, Department of Social Sciences, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey. 1991-1992 Visiting Professor, Department of International Relations, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey. 1995-1996 Visiting Professor, Department of History, Faculty of Theology, University of Athens, Greece. 1970-1983 Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. 1983-1996 Full Professor, Department of History, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada. Since 1996 Professor Emeritus, Member of the School of Graduate Studies and Research, University of Ottawa, Ottawa,Canada. Nominated the only candidate of the Faculty of Arts for University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Research, 1991. 4 BIOGRAPHICAL ENTRIES: 1 - Who=s Who in International Affairs 1998, London,England, Europa Publications (2nd ed.). 2 - The International Who's Who 1995-96, London, England, Europa Publications (59th ed.),1996-97 (60th ed.),1997-98 (61st ed.), 1998-99 (62nd ed.). 3 - Canadian Who's Who,1992, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, (vol. XXVII), 1993 (vol. XXVIII), 1994 (vol. XXIX), 1995 (vol. XXX), 1996 (vol. XXXI), 1997 (vol. XXXII), 1998 (vol. XXXIII). 4 - Who=s Who in Greece, 1996-97, Athens, Metron, in English. 5 - Who=s Who 1992. Epitomo Biographiko Lexiko, Athens, Metron, (1st ed.), 1993-94 (2nd ed.), 1995 (3rd ed.), 1996-97 (4th ed.). 6 - Meydan-Larousse, Ek 3, 1992, vol. XV (Abdi Ipekçi ödülü). Turkish Encyclopaedia, Istanbul. 7 - Hydria, Megalê Genikê Egkyklopaideia (Hydria: Great General Encyclopaedia, 55 volumes), vol. XXXIII, Athens, 1984. 8 - A Directory of American Byzantinists, compiled and prepared by John W. Barker, Madison, Wisconsin (The U.S. National Committee for Byzantine Studies), 1996. 9 - Greek Academics and Researchers in Canada, ed.by Dinos Siotis, Ottawa, 1986. 10 - Dictionnaire des citations littéraires de l=Ontario français, depuis 1960 (DICLOF), publié sous la direction de Mariel O=Neill- Karch et Pierre Karch, Vanier, Ontario, les Editions Interligne, 1996. 11 - Grammatologikê kai Biographikê Egkyklopaideia tês Hellênikês Logotechnias (Grammatological and Biographical Encyclopaedia, of Greek Literature), 2 volumes, ed. by D. Siatopoulos, Athens, 1981, vol. II, p. 154. 12 - Who=s Who 1979. Biographiko Lexiko Prosôpikotêtôn, ed. by C. Athanasakopoulos, Athens, 1979. 13 - Papyros-Larousse (Greek Encyclopaedia, 12 volumes), vo. VIII, hens, 1966. 14 - Hellenikon Who's Who, 1965, Athens, Kathêmerinê, 1965. 15 - Directory of American Scholars, Tempe, Arizona, Jaques Cattell Press, 1974 (6th ed.), 1978 (7th ed.), 1982 (8th ed.). 16 - Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge, England, 1976-77 (vol.XIII), 1979 (vol.XVI), 1980 (vol. XVII), 1983 (vol. XVIII), 1999 (vol. XXVII). 5 17 - Men of Achievement, Cambridge, England, 1979 (vol.VI), 1981 (vol. VIII), 1982 (vol. IX), 1983 (vol. X). 18 - Who=s Who in the Commonwealth, Cambridge, England, 1983, (2nd ed.) 19 - International Who's Who of Intellectuals, Cambridge, England, 1981 (vol.2-3), 1983 (vol.5), 1985 (vol.6). 20 - The Directory of Distinguished Americans, Raleigh, North Carolina, Second Edition, 1983 - Fourth Edition, 1986. 21 - Personalities of America,Raleigh,North Carolina,4th ed., 1986. 22 - Biography International, Delhi, India, 1986. PUBLICATIONS ON D.K.'S LIFE, ACTIVITIES AND IDEAS 1 - Etudes internationales (quarterly), Quebec-City, September 1972,pp.397-415: Professor Robert H. Keyserlingk, ALa Nation vivante. Idéologie et [email protected] purpose of this article was to counter D.K.=s theory on Nationalism, presented in the latter=s study ALe [email protected], Pierre Trépanier,@A quoi servent les historiens?@, L=Action nationale, Montréal, LXVII(6), February 1978,pp.447-451(see section Aarticles in French@, no.16). 2 - Epopteia (monthly), Athens: has devoted its June 1982 issue to D.K. and his efforts to develop in Greece and Turkey an unbiased History of the relations between the two countries. 3 - Tote (monthly), Athens, May and September 1984 an July 1985. 4 - Cumhuriyet (daily),
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