Alexander Kitroeff Curriculum Vitae – May 2019
History Department, Haverford College, 370 Lancaster Avenue, Haverford PA, 19041 Mobile phone: 610-864-0567 e-mail: [email protected]
Current Position: Professor, History Department, Haverford College
Education: D.Phil. Modern History, Oxford University 1984 M.A. History, University of Keele 1979 B.A. Politics, University of Warwick 1977
Research Interests: Identity in Greece & its Diaspora from politics to sport
Teaching Fields: Nationalism & ethnicity in Modern Europe, Mediterranean, & Modern Greece C19-20th
Professional Experience:
Professor, Haverford College 2019-present Visiting Professor, College Year in Athens, Spring 2018 Visiting Professor, American College of Greece, 2017-18 Associate Professor, History Dept., Haverford College, 2002-2019 Assistant Professor, History Dept., Haverford College, 1996-2002 Assistant Professor, History Dept. & Onassis Center, New York University, 1990-96 Adjunct Assistant Professor, History Department, Temple University, 1989-90 Visiting Lecturer, History Dept., & Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, Fall 1988 Adj. Asst. Professor, Byz. & Modern Greek Studies, Queens College CUNY, 1986-89
Fellowships & Visiting Positions:
Venizelos Chair Modern Greek Studies, The American College in Greece 2011-12 Research Fellow, Center for Byz. & Mod. Greek Studies, Queens College CUNY 2004 Visiting Scholar, Vryonis Center for the Study of Hellenism, Sacramento, Spring 1994 Senior Visiting Member, St Antony’s College, Oxford University, Trinity 1991
Major Research Awards & Grants:
Selected as “12 Great Greek Minds at Foreign Universities” by News in Greece 2016 Jaharis Family Foundation, 2013-15 The Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation, 2012 Immigrant Learning Center, 2011 Bank of Piraeus Cultural Foundation, 2008 Proteus Foundation, 2008 Center for Neo-Hellenic Studies, Hellenic Research Institute, 2003
1 President Gerald R. Ford Foundation, 1998 Senior Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council, 1987-88 Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Graduate Studies Scholarship 1983
Courses at Haverford College:
Hist111 Introduction to Western Civilization; Hist114 Introduction to Global History; Hist117 The Modern Mediterranean History; Hist215 Sport & Society Hist249 Refugees in C20th Europe; Hist250 “White” Ethnicity in the United States Hist270 From Empire to Nation: The Ottoman World Transformed Hist357 Topics in European History: Nationalism & Immigration / Europe Memory Hist400 Senior History Seminar
Course at American College of Greece: Honors Program: What it Means to be Greek
Course at College Year in Athens: The Jews of Greece
Publications:
Work-in-progress:
Book-length study on the American Hellenic Progressive Association’s centenary.
Books:
1. The Greeks in Egypt, 1919-1937: Ethnicity & Class London: St. Antony’s College Monographs, Ithaca Press 1989
2. Griegos en América [The Greeks in the Americas] Madrid: Fundación MAPFRE, 1992
3. Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics New York: Greekworks, 2004
4. Ελλάς, Ευρώπη Παναθηναϊκός! 100 Χρονια Ελληνική Ιστορία [Greece, Europe, Panathinaikos! 100 years of Greek history] New York: Greekworks, 2010 344 pp.
5. The Greeks in Egypt from Muhammad Ali to Nasser American University in Cairo 2019 http://www.aucpress.com/p-8235-history.aspx
6. Greek Orthodoxy and Greek America Forthcoming, Northern Illinois University Press, 2020
2 Edited Volume:
1. Σμύρνη: Η Καταστροφή μιας Κοσμοπολίτικης Πόλης 1900-1922 [Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City 1900-1922] (co-edited with Maria Iliou) Athens: Minoas, 2012
Collection of Articles:
1. Wartime Jews: The Case of Athens Athens: ELIAMEP, 1995
Chapters in Books:
1. “Ο Βενιζελισμός στην Αιγυπτο” [Venizelist Republicanism among the Greeks in Egypt] in Th. Veremis & G. Goulimi eds Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος: Κοινότητα, Οικονομία, Πολιτική στην Εποχή του Eleftherios Venizelos: [Eleftherios Venizelos: Community, Economy and Politics in his Era ] Athens: Gnosi, 1989 125-142
2. “Η Βρετανική Πολιτική και το Κίνημα στη Μέση Ανατολή” [British Policy and the Greek Forces Movement in Egypt] in Hagen Fleischer & N. Svoronos Eds. Η Ελλάδα 1936-44 Δικτατορία, Κατοχή, Αντίσταση [Greece 1936-44 Dictatorship, Occupation, Resistance] Athens: ATE 1989. 541-552
3. “The Transformation of Homeland Diaspora Relations: The Greek Case 18th-19th Centuries” in John M. Fossey Ed. Proceedings of the First International Congress on the Hellenic Diaspora from Antiquity to Modern Times Amsterdam: Gieben, 1991 233- 250
4. “The Greek Peasantry: From Dictatorship to Occupation” in Robin Higham & Thanos Veremis Eds. The Metaxas Dictatorship; Aspects of Greece 1936-1940 Athens: ELIAMEP, 1993 63-84
5. “The Holocaust in the Balkans” in Saul S. Friedman ed., Holocaust Literature; A Handbook of Critical, Historical and Literary Writings New Haven CT: Greenwood Press, 1993 301-320. Published in Wartime Jews: the Case of Athens.
6. “The Greek Diaspora in the Mediterranean & the Black Sea 18th-19th Centuries: Seen by American Eyes” in Speros Vryonis Jr. Ed. The Greeks and the Sea New York: Aristides Caratzas, 1993 153-171
7. “Ο Βενιζελισμός στην Αίγυπτο” [Venizelist Republicanism among the Greeks in Egypt] in Th. Veremis & G. Goulimi eds Ελευθέριος Βενιζέλος: Κοινότητα, Οικονομία και Πολιτική στην Εποχή του [Eleftherios Venizelos: Community, Economy and Politics in his Era ] Athens: Gnosi, 1989 125-142
8. “Emigration Transatlantique et Strategie Familiale: La Grèce” [Transatlantic Emigration and Family Strategy: Greece] in Stuart Woolf, ed. Espaces et Familles
3 dans l’ Europe du Sud à l’âge moderne [Space and Families in Southern Europe in the Contemporary Era] Paris: Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’ Homme, 1992 241-270
9. “Greek-American Ethnicity, 1919-1939” in Jelisaveta Stanojevich Allen et al eds. To Hellenikon Studies in Honor of Speros Vryonis, Jr. Vol. II New York: Caratzas, 1993 353-371
10. “Υπερατλαντική Μετανάστευση” [Transatlantic Emigration] in Christos Hadziiosif ed Ιστορία της Ελλάδας του 20ου Αιώνα History of Greece in the C20th] Vol. 1 1900-1922. Athens: Vivliorama, 1999
11. “Εμπορικές Παροικίες και Μετανάστες” [Merchant Colonies and Immigrants] in Christos Hadziiosif, ed. Ιστορία της Ελλάδας του 20ου Αιώνα [History of Greece in the C20th] Vol. B1 1922-1940. Athens: Vivliorama, 2002
12. “Ο Ρόλος του Ελληνο-Αμερικανικού Λόμπι στην Εξωτερική Πολιτική των ΗΠΑ” [The Role of the Greek American Lobby in U.S. Foreign Policy, 1992-2001] in Panayotis Tsakonas, ed. Σύγχρονη Ελληνική Εξωτερική Πολιτική: Μιά Συνολική Προσέγγιση [Contemporary Greek Foreign Policy: A Comprehensive Approach] Athens: Sideris, 2003
13. “The International Dimension of the Interim Olympics in Athens 1906” in Christina Koulouri, Ed. The Interim Olympics in Athens, Greece, 1906 Athens: Hellenic Olympic Committee, 2004 pp. 377-393
14. “Η Ελληνο-Αμερικανική Ταυτότητα την Δεκαετία του 1990” [Greek American Identity in the 1990s] in Michalis Damanakis et al eds. Ιστορία της Νεοελληνικής Διασποράς Ερευνα και Διδασκαλία [History of the Modern Greek Diaspora Research and Instruction] Rethymno: University of Crete, 2004 pp. 89-96
15. “Οι Ελληνες στις ΗΠΑ” [The Greeks in the U.S.] in Vasilis Panayotopoulos ed. Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού 1770-2000 [History of Modern Hellenism, 1770-2000] Vol. 7 Athens: Nea Grammata, 2004 351-360
16. “Βόρεια και Νότια Αμερική: Οι Ομογενείς στις ΗΠΑ, τον Καναδά, την Λατινική Αμερική” [North and South America: The Greek Diaspora in the U.S., Canada and Latin America] in Vasilis Panayotopoulos ed. Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού 1770- 2000 [History of Modern Hellenism, 1770-2000] Vol. 9 Athens: Nea Grammata, 2004 305-318
17. “Βόρεια Αμερική: Οι Ελληνικές Κοινότητες στις ΗΠΑ και τον Καναδά” [North America: the Greek Communities in the U.S. & Canada] in Vasilis Panayotopoulos ed. Ιστορία του Νέου Ελληνισμού 1770-2000 [History of Modern Hellenism, 1770-2000] Vol. 10 Athens: Nea Grammata, 2004 297-308
4 18. “Greek Images of the Ottomans & Turks” in Nedret Kuran-Burcoglu & Susan Gilson Miller eds. Representations of the “Others” in the Mediterranean World and their Impact on the Region Istanbul: The Isis Press, 2005 pp.125-140
19. “Ο Τύπος ως Πηγή για την Ιστορία των Ελλήνων στις ΗΠΑ” [The Press as a Source for the History of the Greeks in the United States] in Loukia Droulia ed. The Greek Press Since 1784: Historical & Theoretical Perspectives Athens: Foundation of Modern Hellenism / National Foundation of Research, 2005 371-379
20. “Η Μεταπολεμική Μετανάστευση” [Post-War Emigration] in Ioannis Hasiotis et. al. eds. Οι Ελληνες στην Διασπορά 15-20ος αιώνες. [The Greeks in the Diaspora C15- 20th] Athens: Parliament of Greece, 2006 75-91
21. “Modern Greece and the Olympics: Politics and Sport” in International Olympic Academy Proceedings of 45th Session 27 July – 11 August 2005; Athens: IOA, 2006 pp. 213-223
22. “Greek American Identity in the 1980s” in Eric Bruneau, Ioanis Hassiotis, Martine Hovanessian & Claire Mouradian eds. Arméniens et Grecs en Diaspora: approches comparatives Athens: L’École Francaise d’ Athènes, 2007 pp. 299-306
23. “Fair play versus Competing to Win & Coubertin” International Olympic Academy Proceedings of 46th Session 19 June – 3 July 2006; Athens: IOA, 2007 72-82
24. “Greece and the 1904 ‘American’ Olympics” in Susan Brownell ed. The 1904 Anthropology Days and Olympic Games: Sport, Race, and American Imperialism University of Nebraska Press, 2008 301-323
25. “The Limits of Political Transnationalism: The Greek-American Lobby 1970s- 1990s” in Dimitris Tziovas ed. Greek Diaspora and Migration since 1700 Society Politics & Culture Burlington: Ashgate, 2009 141-153
26. “Βόρεια Αμερική” [North America] & “Βόρεια-Αφρική-Μέση Ανατολή” [North Africa Middle East] in Kostas Loukeris & Kyriaki Petraki eds. Οι Δρόμοι των Ελλήνων [The Roads of the Greeks] Athens: Polaris, 2009 13-55, 187-221
27. “Οι Ελληνο-Αμερικανοί 1940-1952” [The Greek Americans 1940-1952 in Christos Hadziiosif, ed. Ιστορία της Ελλάδας του 20ου Αιώνα [History of Greece in the C20th] Vol. D2 1940-1952 Athens: Vivliorama, 2009 158-181
28. “Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: A History of Identity and Memory, 1920s- 1980s,” in The Asia Minor Catastrophe and the Ottoman Greek Genocide: Essays on Asia Minor, Pontos, and Eastern Thrace, 1913–1923., George N. Shirinian, ed., Bloomingdale, IL: The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center, Inc., 2012 150-160
5 29. “Spyros Louis’s Bréal Cup and the Greek Heritage of the Olympics” in Spyros Louis’s Bréal Cup and the Greek Heritage of the Olympics Athens: The Stavros Niarchos Foundation, 2012
30. “Between Two Worlds” Introductory Essay to 2nd edition of Theodore Saloutos’ They Remember America: The Story of the Repatriated Americans New York: Greekworks, 2012 ix-xxii
31. “Greek Americans” in Immigrant Struggles, Immigrant Gifts Diane Portnoy, Barry Portnoy & Charlie Riggs Eds. Washington DC: George Mason Univ. Press, 2012 140- 157
32. “Diaspora & Nationalism in the Eastern Mediterranean: Egypt’s 1919 Revolution and the Foreign Communities” Andreas Lyberatos ed. Social Transformation and Mass Mobilization in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Cities, 1900-1923 Heraklion: Crete University Press, 2013 281-292
33. “The Greek State and the Diaspora: Venizelism Abroad, 1910-1932” in Mata Dova ed. Historical Poetics in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Greece: Essay in Honor of Lily Macrakis Lulu Publishing 2014 available on the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University website at: http://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=4883
34. “The Greek Americans” Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/greeks-and-greece-modern/
35. “Archbishop Iakovos & the Greek Colonels’ Dictatorship 1967-1974” Volume on the Greek Dictatorship 1967-1974 edited by Othon Anastasakis & Katerina Lagos Berghahn Books forthcoming 2020
Articles in Academic Journals:
1. “The Greek Seamen’s Movement, 1940-1944” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 7 # 3-4, 1980 73-97
2. “Η Ελληνική Παροικία στην Αίγυπτο και ο Β’ Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος” [The Greek Community in Egypt and World War II] Mnemon Vol. 9, 1981 1-32
3. “The Greeks in Egypt: Ethnicity & Class” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 10, # 3, 1983
4. “The Alexandria We Have Lost” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 10, # 1-2, 1983
5. “Wartime Greek Attitudes Towards the Jews in Athens” Forum on the Jewish
6 People and Zionism (Jerusalem) Vol 60 1986 41-51. Translated into Dutch & published as “Grieken en Joden in Bezet Athene” Lychnari Vol 4, # 3, 1990 6-11 and also published in Wartime Jews: The Case of Athens
6. “Continuity & Change in Contemporary Greek Historiography” European History Quarterly # 2 Vol. 19, April 1989 269-298. Reprinted in Martin Blinkhorn & Thanos Veremis Eds. Modern Greece: Nationalism & Nationality London: Sage, 1990 and updated & translated into Greek in Thanos Veremis ed. Εθνική Ταυτότητα και Εθνικισμός στην Ελλάδα Athens: MIET, 1997
7. “Diaspora-Homeland Relations & Greek American Lobbying: The Panhellenic Emergency Committee” Journal of Modern Hellenism #11, 1994 19-40
8. “Andreas G. Papandreou: A Brief Political Biography” Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora Vol. 23.1, 1997 7-32
9. “Greek Nationhood and Modernity in the C19th.” Balkan Studies Vol 40 # 1 1999 21-40
10. “Modern Greek Studies in the United States” in Études Helléniques / Hellenic Studies Vol. 14, 2, Autumn 2006, 21-36
11. “The Greeks of Egypt in the United States” in Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 35:2 2009 117-130
12. “The Transformation of the Greek American Press: The National Herald 1915- 1939” Études Helléniques / Hellenic Studies 23:2 2015 125-138
13. “Greek America’s Liturgical Language Crisis of 1970” Ergon: a Journal of Greek American Studies Feb. 26, 2019 https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/articles/liturgical-language-crisis-of-1970
Multimedia Scholarship:
Historical consultant for four film documentaries by director Maria Iliou & co- curator of photography exhibits of each, on view at the Benaki Museum, Athens.
“The Journey: the Greek Dream in America” (86 mins, 2007) www.thejourneygreekamericandream.org
“Smyrna 1922 – the Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City” (87 mins., 2012) www.smyrnadocumentary.org “From Both Sides of the Aegean: Expulsion & Exchange of Populations Turkey- Greece 1922-1924” (87 mins., 2012) https://www.facebook.com/aegeandocumentary
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“Αγαπημένη Θεία Λένα: Η Ζωή και το Εργο της Αντιγόνης Μεταξά” [Beloved Aunt Lena: The Life and Work of Antigone Metaxa] (87 mins., 2017) http://www.kathimerini.gr/892058/article/proswpa/proskhnio/h-xarismatikh- 8eia-lena-se-ena-megalo-afierwma
Historical Consultant for film documentary “100 Years of the National Herald” by director Minos Papas (2015) https://vimeo.com/129064885
Book Reviews:
1. Η Σοσιαλιστική Εργατική Ομοσπονδία Θεσσαλονίκης και η Σοσιαλιστική Νεολαία [The Socialist Worker’s Federation of Thessaloniki and the Socialist Youth] by Antonis Liakos in History Workshop Journal 24, Autumn 1987, 198-200.
2. Η Σέριφος κατά την Τουρκοκρατία (17-19ος αιώνας) [Serifos under Turkish Rule (17-19th centuries)] by Eftihia D. Liata in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 7, #2 October 1989 342.
3. Iosipos Moisiodax: The Coordinates of Balkan Τhought in eighteenth century by Paschalis Kitromilides in History of European Ideas 8, #2, 1987, 244-245.
4. Patra 1820-1860: Mia Hellenike Protevousa ston 19ο aiona [Patra 1820-1860: a Greek capital city in the nineteenth century] by Nikos Bakounakis in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 9, #1 May 1991, 127-29.
5. The Greek Minority in Istanbul and Greek-Turkish Relations 1918-1974 by Alexis Alexandris in International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies Vol. 26, 2 May 1994, 293-295.
6. The Greek Community of New York City: Early Years to 1910 by Michael Contopoulos in Journal of American Studies of Turkey 6, 1997, 71-73.
7. Yugoslavia and After: A Study in Fragmentation, Despair and Rebirth by David A. Dyker and Ivan Vejvoda (eds) in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713636289~tab=iss ueslist~branches=4 - v44.3 Autumn 1998.
8. Olympics in Athens 1896: The Invention of the Modern Olympic Games by Michael Llewellyn Smith in Journal of Modern Greek Studies 23.1 2005, 209-212.
9. Greece & the Balkans: Identities, Perception and Cultural Encounters Since the Enlightenment Dimitris Tziovas ed. in European History Quarterly 35.2 2005 386- 388.
8 10. 100 Χρόνια Παναθηναϊκός [100 Years Panathinaikos] by Sifis Votzakis in Athens Review of Books 3, Dec. 2009.
11. Greece: A Jewish History by K.E. Fleming in The American Historical Review Vol. 114, issue 3 June 2009, 859-860. https://academic.oup.com/ahr/article- abstract/114/3/859/14982?redirectedFrom=fulltext
12. Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey by Umut Kirimli and Spyros A. Sofos. New York: Columbia University Press, 2008 in Journal of World History 22.1 March 2011, pp. 202-04.
13. The Genocide of the Ottoman Greeks: Studies on the State-Sponsored Campaign of Extermination of the Christians of Asia Minor (1912-1922) and its Aftermath: History, Law, Memory by Tess Hofmann, Matthias Bjørnlund, Vasileios Meichanetsidis (eds), New York and Athens: Aristide D. Caratzas, Publisher, 2011 in The Historical Review Vol. 11 2014 201-205. https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/historicalReview/article/view/411 4/3893
14. Το έθνος πέρα των συνόρων: «Ομογενειακές» πολιτικές του ελληνικού κράτους [The nation beyond borders – the Greek state’s policies towards the Greeks abroad] ed. by Lina Ventoura and Lambros Baltsiotis in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Volume 34, Number 1, May 2016, pp. 214-216
15. The Making of the Greek Genocide: Contested Memories of the Ottoman Greek Catastrophe. by Erik Sjöberg Berghahn Books, 2017 in Journal of Social History, 2017 https://doi.org/10.1093/jsh/shx082
16. Review essay on Anastasia Christou and Russell King, Counter-Diaspora: The Greek Second Generation Returns “Home.” Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Department of the Classics 2014 & George Kaloudis, Modern Greece and the Diaspora Greeks in the United State .Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2018 in Ergon Greek American Arts & Letters 2018 https://ergon.scienzine.com/article/books/christou-king-kaloudis-book-reviews
Articles in Magazines, Newspapers & on Websites:
«Μετανάστευση στην Αμερική» [Emigration to America] Kathimerini Dec. 15 1996 “End of an Era: Smyrna Catastrophe” Odyssey # 24 July/Aug. 1997 “The Greek Civil War” Odyssey # 39 Jan. / Feb. 2000 “Out of Greece: Jake Tsakalidis” Odyssey # 46 March/April 2001 «Παγκοσμιοποίηση του Αρχαίου Πνεύματος» [Globalization of the ancient spirit] To Vima newspaper Aug. 1, 2004 “Keeping the Games in Greece” Athens News Aug. 13 2004
9 “Old world intertwined with new; 2004 Olympic Games” Op-ed The Baltimore Sun Aug. 13 2004 “Back on Home Turf… for now” Athens News Aug. 14, 2004 “The Legend Lives On” Athens News Aug. 16 2004 “Greece Back in Medals League” Athens News Aug. 17 2004 “Promoting Olympic Fraternity” Athens News Aug. 18 2004 “War and Remembrance – Two New Books about the Greek civil war” in Odyssey # 86 Nov/Dec 2007 pp. 51-54 «Το Παιχνίδι που Εγινε Επάγγελμα» [The Game that Became a Profession] in To Vima Aug. 23 2009 “The Girl’s Hood: Upper Darby’s Greektown” in Odyssey – the World of Greece March- April 2011 «Απο την ‘Παράγκα’ στα Στημένα Παιχνίδια» [From the ‘Cabin’ to Fixed Games] in Kathimerini Aug. 7th 2011 “One Man’s Genocide is Another Man’s (Filis) Cleansing” National Herald Nov. 14-20 2015 “John Kyriakou of the CIA: the Greek Whistleblower” National Herald Nov. 28-Dec. 4 2015 “Greek Americans: Small Part of U.S. Population, but with Strong Heritage, Identity” National Herald Dec. 12-18 2015 “Greek Language Education and the John Rassias Report” National Herald Dec. 26- Jan. 1 2016 “A Look at Greek America and Greece’s Same Sex Unions” National Herald Jan. 16-20 2016 “Examining Greek America: Is it Fragmented or United?” National Herald Jan. 30- Feb 5, 2016 «Ο Τραμπ και η Σκουριασμένη Αμερική» [Trump and Rust-Belt America] Chronos #43 Nov. 8 2016 https://chronos.fairead.net/election16-kitroeff «Ο Παναθηναϊκός στο Γουέμπλεϊ» [Panathinaikos at Wembley] Kathimerini Feb. 25 2019 http://www.kathimerini.gr/1011613/gallery/epikairothta/a8lhtismos/o- pana8hnaikos-sto-goyemplei
Administrative Experience at Haverford College:
Faculty Athletic Representative 2000-2002 Acting Chair & Member, Faculty Admissions Committee 2002-2005 Alternate Member, Academic Council 2005-06, 2008-09, 2010-11 Search Committee Admissions Department Position 2004, 2006 Member, Committee on Student Honors 2005-06 Academic Director, Center for Peace & Global Citizenship 2008-11 Member FFRC 2013-14 Chair, Committee Student Standing & Progress (CSSP) 2004-07, 2012-14, 2016-17 Chair, Department of History, 2014-15 Search Committee Member International Studies Position, Bryn Mawr College (2018-19)
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Non-Haverford Professional Activities:
Member of Editorial Board Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 1980-2013 Member of Doctoral dissertation committees at: University of Thessaloniki; University of Crete; European Institute in Florence; Temple University; New York University; University of Cyprus. Member of appointment, promotion, tenure committees at: University of Athens; Panteion University Athens; University of Cyprus; University of Ioannina. Elected Member of Advisory Committee: Panteion University 2012-14
Lectures: Keynote, Academic, Public i) Keynote & Named Lectures
“The Greeks & the Levantines in Egypt: Parallel Lives” 3rd Levantine Heritage International Conference, Athens 2-4 Nov. 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nN9KbVlea2o&t=7s
"Greek Orthodoxy & the Challenges of Americanization - Archbishop Iakovos' last decade 1986-96" Annual Zamanakos Lecture, UMass, Lowell, April 2016. http://www.lowellsun.com/news/ci_29722725/haverford-professor-gives-umass- lowells-annual-zamanakos-lecture
“History, Memory & Memoirs & the Asia Minor Disaster” Visiting Venizelos Professorship lecture, American College in Athens, March 2012.
“Ethnicity Beyond the Ethnic Enclave: The Greeks of Brooklyn” 10th Annual Pallas Modern Greek Studies Lecture, University of Michigan, March 2012.
“From Μπρούκληδες to Brooklynites: a Greek American History” Visiting Venizelos Professorship Lecture, American College in Athens, 2011.
“Greek Americans: from History to Memory” Tsamantas Society Centenary Conference, Brookline College, Mass. Oct. 2008 https://docplayer.gr/3408975-Friends-of-tsamantas-newsletter-october-2008- compiled-by-dr-dimitrios-konstadakopulos.html
“Greek American Non-Profit Organizations.” American Hellenic Institute, Future of Hellenism Conference, Boston, Nov. 2008
“Greece’s Entry into World War II and the Greek Americans” Inaugural Contos Memorial Lecture, Hellenic American Chamber of Commerce, NYC, Nov. 2006
11 “Modern Greece & the Olympics” Notable Speakers Series, Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church, Pittsburgh, April 2004
“Greece & the Olympics” American Hellenic Progressive Association, Annual Banquet Washington DC Feb. 2004
“Greek Nationalism & the Olympics” “Distinguished Historian Lecture” Richard Stockton College NJ, 2003
ii) Academic Lectures & Conference Papers (Since 1999):
«Η Συμβολή των Ελλήνων στον Εκσυγχρονισμό της Αιγύπτου» [The Contribution of the Greeks to the Modernization of Egypt] American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2019 http://www.kathimerini.gr/1014478/article/epikairothta/ellada/h-ellhnikh- paroysia-sthn-aigypto-mesa-apo-mia-endiaferoysa-diale3h
“Rethinking how we study the Greeks in Egypt” Panel on the History of the Greeks in Egypt, Panteion University, Athens 2017
“The Greek Crisis & Soccer Club Identities: Athens Bourgeois, Piraeus Proletarians & Asia Minor Refugees” College Year in Athens Lecture Series, Athens 2017
“Greece’s Love Affair With Giannis Antetokoumpo: Greek nationalism and the challenges of immigration” UCLA 2017
«Το Καθεστώς της 21ης Απριλίου & ο Αμερικής Ιάκωβος: Μιά Ιδιότυπη Σχέση Εθνικού Κέντρου & Ομογένειας» [The 21st April Regime and Archbishop Iakovos of America: a unique relationship between the national center and the diaspora] Conference on the 5oth anniversary of the April 21st Coup d’ etat, Athens 2017
“A Film Director, a Historian & 5 Documentaries.” Conference on History Teaching; Ionian University & Avgouleas-Linardatos School Athens 2017. (with Maria Iliou) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TPPgl525IY&t=1464s
"A Greek Orthodox Turning Point: the 1982 San Francisco Clergy-Laity Congress" California State University Sacramento, May 2016
“National Identity & Greece’s Euro 2004 Victory” Soccer as the Beautiful Game Conference, Hofstra University, April 2014
"Modern Greek Identity and the ‘Mediterannean’ 1930s – 1950s." Conference on Cyprus, Greece & the Mediterranean, University of Cyprus, 2013
12 «Η Ιδέα του Παναθηναϊκού την Ηρωϊκή Εποχή της Α’ Εθνικής 1960-79» [The Panathinaikos Idea during the heroic era of the National Football League 1960-79] Conference on Soccer in the Greek-Speaking World, University of Cyprus, 2013
«Ο Εθελοντισμός Ανάμεσα στους Ελληνες της Αιγύπτου & των ΗΠΑ: ιστορία & μνήμη» [Volunteerism among the Greeks in Egypt & the United States: history & memory] Conference on Greek Wartime Volunteers, University of Cyprus, 2012
“The Pontian Genocide: History & Memory” Queens College CUNY lecture in memory of Professor Harry J. Psomiades, NYC, 2011
“Greece and the Greek Americans 1996-2004” Workshop on Greece and its Diaspora, Mnemon Historical Society, Athens, 2011
“Early Greek Immigration to the U.S. & Discrimination.” Immigrant Learning Center, Workshop on Ethnicity & Discrimination in the U.S., Walden, Mass. 2011
“Greek Nationalism & Religion, mid-1850s.” Harvard University Seminar on Modern Greece, 2010
“The 1919 Nationalist Uprising in Egypt & the Foreign Communities.” Institute for Mediterranean Studies Conference, University of Crete, 2009
“Greek Studies & Greek American History.” Greek Studies International Conference, Greek Ministry of Culture, Athens, 2008
“The Greeks of Egypt in the United States” Panteion University Conference, Athens, 2008
“The Truman Doctrine & the Greek Americans.” Modern Greek Studies Association Conference, New Haven, 2007
“National Identity & Football Fans 1930s-1990s.” History Department, Bogazici University, Istanbul, 2007
“The Political Limits of Transnationalism: The Greek American Lobby 1970s-1990s” Hellenic Diasporas Conference, Center for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, University of Birmingham UK, 2007
“National Identity, Fair Play, & Winning in Sport in Coubertin’s Thought” International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, 2006
“Nationalism & Religion in the Olympics.” Material Religion in America Symposium at Haverford College, 2006
13 “Nationalism, Politics & Olympic Sports.” International Olympic Academy, Ancient Olympia, 2005
“Reflections on the Athens 2004 Olympics.” Queens College CUNY, 2004
“Greece & the 1904 Olympics.” International Conference on the 1904 St. Louis Olympic Games and Anthropology Days: A Centennial Retrospective – University of St. Louis Missouri & Missouri Historical Society, Sept. 2004
“The Winning City: From Atlanta to the Athens 2004 Olympics” CUNY Seminar on the Modern Greek State, NYC, 2003
“Greek Nationalism & the Olympics” “Distinguished Historian Lecture” Richard Stockton College NJ, 2003.
“Greek American Identity in the 1990s.” Greek Diaspora Conference, University of Crete at Rethymno, 2003.
“Greek C19th Nationalism & Modernity.” Hellenic Studies Chair Inauguration Conference, York University Toronto, 2002.
“Greek American Identity” Armenian & Greek Diasporas Conference, French Institute in Athens, 2001.
“Greek Nationalism & Modernity” Greece & the Balkans Conference, Birmingham University, U.K., 2001.
“Greek Views of the Turk, Late C19th-Early C20th.” Middle East Studies Association Conference, 2000.
Paper, “Greece & Europe” Hellenic Studies Conference, Temple University Philadelphia October 2000
Paper, “Citizenship & Nationality in C19th Greece” Ottoman Citizenship Conference, SUNY Binghampton, April 1999.
Paper, “Environment, Health, Morals & National Identity: Greek Emigration” American Historical Association Convention, January 1999.
iii) Public Lectures & Panels (Since 2003):
“How the Arrival of Asia Minor & Pontic Refugees Modernized 20th Century Greece” at Asia Minor and Pontus Hellenic Research Center Conference, Holocaust Museum, Chicago 2019.
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Panel on book presentation of “Και Χιλιάδες Τίτλοι” [And a Thousand Trophies] at Acropolis Museum Athens, 2017. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlhC1vPxC4s
Panel on Archiving the Greek American Experience, East Mediterranean Business & Cultural Alliance, New York 2016. http://embca.com/video-embca-presents-archiving-the-hellenic-american- experience-in-the-21st-century-sept-22-2016/
Panel on Diasporas, Commerce & Peace in the Mediterranean, East Mediterranean Business & Cultural Alliance, New York 2016. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VKSqGGUYXc
"Prof. John Rassias' 1996 Report on Greek Language Instruction in the United States." Greek Orthodox Archdiocese Cultural Center, NYC, 2016.
“The Jews of Athens & the Holocaust in Greece” Greek Holocaust Commemoration, Greek General Consulate NYC 2012
«Το Κύπελλο Μπρεάλ» Bréal Cup Exhibit Opening, New Akropolis Museum, Athens, August 2012 https://www.snf.org/en/initiatives/spyros-louis-cup/ Text in English: https://www.snf.org/media/2989685/2012-08-27-Kitroeff%20Eng.pdf
«Η Ενωση των Επτανήσων: Διεθνείς & Εθνικές Διαστάσεις» 147th anniversary celebration of Ionian Islands with Greece, Ionian Federation of America, May 2012
“Greek American Identity & Institutions.” American Hellenic Institute, Future of Hellenism Conference, Philadelphia, 2009
“Greek Refugee Identity, 1920s-1980s” Asia Minor Catastrophe Conference, Pontian Greek Society, Chicago, 2009
“Survey of Greek American Institutions Preserving Heritage” National Hellenic Society Renaissance Weekend, Lake Las Vegas, May 2008
Lecture, “The Greek Americans & WWII” Hellenic Museum Chicago, Nov. 2007
Panel Member, Book launch of Dan Georgakas’ My Detroit: Growing Up Greek American in Motor City Press Office of Greece in New York, April 2006
“Reflections on the Athens 2004 Olympics” lecture and panel coordination, The Hellenic Society Prometheus, Bethesda Md. Oct., 2004
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“Greek American Identity After Athens 2004” American Hellenic Institute Conference, Washington DC, October 2004
“Greece & the Olympics” Hellenic University Club of Philadelphia, March 2003 iv) Book Talks & Documentary Film Screening Tours
Wrestling with the Ancients book presentations and signings at: Institute of Hellenic Culture NYC; Federation of Greek American Societies, Astoria, NY; Hellenic Cultural Society of Rochester, NY; Hellenic College, Brookline MA; Kokkalis Center Harvard University; JFK Center for the Performing Arts, Washington DC; Prometheus Hellenic Society Bethesda Md.; Hellenic Community Center, Atlanta GA; Hellenic Culture Museum, Chicago IL; Center for Modern Greek Studies San Francisco State University; California State University at Sacramento; Hellenic Studies Program Stanford University; St. Nicholas Greek Orthodox Church San Jose CA; Hellenic Studies Loyola Marymount University; Concordia University Montreal; Hellenic Cultural Center Toronto (February-June 2004)
“The Journey: the Greek American Dream” Introduction and post-screening Q&A at: Benaki Museum Athens; Greek American Union, Athens; Haverford College; Metropolitan Museum New York; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Smyrna: The Destruction of a Cosmopolitan City” Introduction and post-screening Q&A at: Boston College, Brown University, Georgetown University, New York University, Ohio State University, Princeton University, SUNY at Stonybrook, University of Connecticut, University of Pennsylvania, Yale University (October 2013 – February 2014, tour funded by Stavros Niarchos Foundation)
Separate events at: Athens College https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZb0QsV6sVw ; Benaki Museum, Athens; Federation of Hellenic Societies of Greater New York; New York City Greek Film Festival; Hellenic Library Society Downey, CA.
“From Both Sides of the Aegean” Introduction and post-screening Q&A at: American College in Greece; Benaki Museum Athens; SUNY at Stonybrook; Quad Cinema NY.
Interviews i) 2004 Athens Olympics
Extended on-camera interview, The Today Show, NBC, August 27 2004 On-camera interview, NBC (WCAU Philadelphia), August 27 2004 Extended on-camera interview, CNN International/CNN Newshour with Aaron Brown, Aug. 26 2004
16 On-camera interview, NBC (Virginia affiliate), Aug. 24 2004 Sole guest (1-hr interview), Radio Times, NPR (WHYY Philadelphia), Aug. 16 2004 On-camera interview, CNN International, August 13 2004 Commentary, Morning Edition, NPR, August 11 2004 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3840087 Guest, Talk of the Nation, NPR, June 9 2004 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1951235 Interview, It’s Only a Game, NPR, Aug. 28 2004 ii) Modern Greek & Diaspora History
Greek Historiography in the 20th Century: The Formation of Modern Greek Studies https://bit.ly/2HCT7mA
Εθνικός Κήρυξ Ν.Υ. [National Herald NY] Feb. 2 1019 https://bit.ly/2BgcRrt
Kathimerini article on Greek Diner Restaurants in the U.S. http://www.kathimerini.gr/804293/article/politismos/eikastika/estiatorio-a-la-ellhnika
“Lunch with Kathimerini” Interview with Margarita Pournara (in Greek) http://www.kathimerini.gr/1022439/gallery/proswpa/geyma-me-thn-k/ale3andros-kitroef- oi-omogeneis-8eloyn-na-voh8hsoyn
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