CIHIS : Who We Are Henriette-Rika Benveniste Henriette-Rika Benveniste studied history at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and completed her doctoral studies in Medieval History at the Université de Sorbonne (Paris I, Panthéon). She has taught at the Ionian University and the University of the Aegean and she is Associate professor of European Medieval History at the University of Thessaly. She has published several articles on the judicial archives, on the relations between Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages and on the Historiography of the Holocaust. Her last book on Jewish Travelers in the Middle Ages was published in Athens in 2000. Mitsos Bilalis Mitsos Bilalis is a Lecturer in Theory and Technology of Historical Information at the University of Thessaly, Department of History, Archaeology & Social Anthropology (Volos, Greece). He holds a doctorate in history from the Faculty of History, University of Sofia (Bulgaria). He has published articles on studying history and historiography in the digital domain, digital media and representations of the past and social history of information. Yannis Diniakos Haris Exertzoglou Haris Exertzoglou is a graduate of the University of Athens, Faculty of Economics and received his Ph.D from King's College, Univesrity of London. He is Associate Professor of History at the Department of Socia Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean. Costas Gaganakis Costas Gaganakis completed his doctoral studies in Early Modern European History at the University of Glasgow, under the supervision of C.F.Black, in 1988. Between 1993 and 1996, he taught at the Democretian University of Thrace as Teaching Fellow in European History. From 1996 he teaches at the Department of History & Archaeology, University of Athens. He specializes in the social and cultural history of Early Modern France, with main emphasis in the period of the French Wars of Religion. Together with Rika Benveniste, he has organized two international seminars in European History in Hermoupolis, Syros in 1998 and 2000. The themes explored were "Heterodoxies. The construction of identity and otherness in medieval and early modern Europe" in 1998 (proceedings to be published in vol.2 of Historein), and "Political dimensions of the religious experience in medieval and early modern Europe", in 2000 (proceedings to be published by the Greek National Institute of Research). His latest publications include an article on "The construction of memory in protestant propaganda during the French Wars of Religion" (Mnemon, 20, 1999), and an introduction to the social and economic history of Europe, 6th-20th centuries, a textbook for the Greek Open University. He is currently completing a book on the "War of words. The clash of Huguenot and Catholic propaganda in the French wars of Religion". Effi Gazi Effi Gazi studied Modern History at the Universities of Athens (Greece) and Essex (UK). She received her Ph.D. from the European University Institute (Florence) in 1997. She conducted post-doctoral research at Princeton University (USA) and has taught at the universities of Crete, Athens, Thessaly (Greece) and Brown (USA). She is the author of Scientific National History. The Greek case in comparative perspective (European University Studies, 2000) and has also published several articles on intellectual and cultural history. Pothiti Hantzaroula Pothiti Hantzaroula is currently writing her Ph.D. thesis at the European University Institute of Florence entitled "The Making of Subordination: Domestic servants in Greece 1920-1945", which is based on oral testimonies. She studied Classics at the University of Athens and received her Master of Arts (MA) from the University of Warwick in British Labour History. She has translated in Greek Benedict Anderson's Imagined Communities (Nefeli Publications, 1997). She is also a co-editor with Regina Schulte of "Narratives of the Servant" (EUI WP, forthcoming). Vangelis Karamanolakis Vangelis Karamanolakis was born in Athens in 1965. In 1986 he graduated from the Marasleios Pedagogical Academy and worked as a teacher for four years. In 1993 he graduated from the Faculty of Letters, University of Athens, and three years later, in 1996, he obtained a Master of Arts (MA) degree from the University of Athens, entitled "The emergence of psychiatric institutions in Greece in the 19th century. The case of the Dromokaition Mental Institution." He is presently working on his Ph.D. thesis on the instruction of history at the University of Athens during the period 1873-1940. Since 1996 he works at the Archives of Modern Social History. Vangelis Kechriotis Vangelis Kechriotis was born in Athens in 1969. He graduated from the History and Archaeology Department, University of Athens, in 1992. In 1994-95, he attended courses for a Master of Arts in Comparative History, at the History Department, University of Essex, granted with a scholarship by the Onassis Foundation. His dissertation was entitled "The Translations of French and English historical essays in Greek during the second half of the 19th century". Since 1998, he is a Ph.D. candidate at the History and Archaeology Department, University of Athens, granted with a scolarship by the Foundation of the Hellenic World. His thesis concerns the «Social representations and political activity of the Greek-Orthodox community in Izmir, at the beginning of the 20th c.». He has published in the Greek journal Mnemon. He has translated in Greek the book Turkey: a Modern History by Erik van Zurcher, (in print by Alexandria publications). He has given papers in the seminars of Ermoupolis, organised by the Center of Neohellenic Research. He has also taken part in Graduate Workshops (Harvard University, Central European University, Princeton University). Since 1999 he is part of a network of young historians of South-Eastern Europe, working on issues of political and intellectual history of the region. He lives in Istanbul where he conducts his research, as a visiting graduate student at Bogazici Universitesi and works as a project coordinator at Sabanci University. (e-mail: vkechr@yahoo.com) Yiorgos Kokkinos George Kokkinos was born in Athens in 1960. He studied history at the Dpt. of History & Archaeology, University of Athens. In 1985 he obtained his D.E.A. on Byzantine History from the University Paris 1, Pantheon-Sorbonne. His PhD thesis (1994) is entitled Political and Social Philosophy and Ideology of Neocles Kazazes (1849-1936) (Dpt. of History & Archaeology, University of Athens). He has published several books and articles on political history and the teaching of history. His research interests include the history of political ideas, the history of ideas about the body and gymnastics, the epistemology of history & social sciences, the history of historiography, and the teaching of history. He is assistant professor at the Dpt. of Elementary Education, University of Aegean - Rhodes and he is teaching 'History of the Greek State (19th-20th Century)' at the Dpt of Classical Philology at the University of Patras. He is also responsible for the educational and publishing programs of the Greek Parliament. Angelica Koufou Angelica Koufou graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Athens. She continued her postgraduate studies in Paris at the University of Paris I and the Institute of Political Studies. She has been a member of the Cultural and Intellectual History Society (CIHIS) since 1994 and of the Editorial Board of HISTOREIN since 1998. She is currently preparing a Ph.D. thesis on the linguistic turn in Historiography at the University of Athens. Ioanna Laliotou Ioanna Laliotou was born in Athens GR in 1969. She studied history at the University of Athens (BA, 1992) and Cultural Studies (M.Soc.Sc., 1993) at the Center for the Contemporary Cultural Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. During the period 1994-8 she studied at the European University Institute (Florence, IT) where she completed her doctoral thesis on "Migrating Greece: Historical Enactments of Migration in the Culture of the Nation". Her research interests include the present and past history of migrations and transnational cultural formations, subjectivity, representation and critical theory. Since 1998 she spends her time researching, teaching and learning contemporary history and cultural studies between Athens, Volos and New York (US). She is currently working on a project on the history of twentieth century social utopianism. She also teaches contemporary history at the Department of History, Archaeology and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly at Volos. Dimitra Lambropoulou Pelagia Marketou Margarita Miliori Margarita Miliori was born in Athens in 1968. She has studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens and cultural history at the University of York (MA, 1992). She completed her doctoral thesis at the University of Oxford in 1998, under the title “The Greek Nation in British Eyes 1821 – 1864: Aspects of a British Discourse on Nationality, Politics, History and Europe”. She has worked for a time as an assistant professor on Modern Greek and Balkan history at Brown University in Rhode Island, and as an external academic lecturer at the University of Athens. Her research interests lie in nineteenth century European historiography, cultural and intellectual history. Katerina Papakonstantinou Katerina Papakonstantinou is specialized in the history of the Early Modern Period and especially of the 18th century social and economical conditions in South Eastern Europe. She has finished her PhD at the University of Athens on the trading activity of Balkan merchants in Central Europe in the 18th century. She is post-doctorate researcher at the Ionian University (Corfu) and participates in a project on Greek maritime history of the 18th century. She is interested in business history, trading diasporas and communication in the early modern era. Yannis Papatheodorou Yiannis Papatheodorou was born in 1970. He graduated from the Department of Classic Greek Literature (University of Athens) in 1993. Since 1995 he is a Ph.D. candidate at the Department of Modern Greek Literature. He is completing his doctoral thesis, which concerns the "Rhetorics of Difference" in Stratis Tsirkas's post-war novel "Drifting Cities." His special research interests include the fields of Literary Studies and Cultural Poetics. He is also interested in the archival sources of modern and contemporary Social History. He has published several articles on the topics of "city in literature", "testimonies of exile", "intellectual life, and political commitment." During the first semester of 2000-2001 a scholarship offered from the Center of Mediterranean Civilization of Tel Aviv gave him the opportunity to extend his studies on the literary representations of the diasporic identities in the Mediterranean landscape. He lives in Athens. Ioulia Pentazou Ioulia Pentazou was born in Athens in 1966. She studied History at the University of Thessaloniki (Greece). She obtained her degree at the University of Athens (Greece). Her MA dissertation concerned the teaching of history at the National University of Greece in the 19th century. She is currently working on a Ph.D. thesis concerning the perception of Asia Minor in Greek and Turkish historiography. She has also worked on the production of several CD-ROMs. Panayiotis Stathis Yannis Yannitsiotis Despoina Valatsou for CV details please visit: www.geocities.com/dvalatsou Angelos Vlachos Polymeris Voglis Polymeris Voglis studied at the University of Athens and the European University Institute in Florence. Last year he was post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University, and he is currently teaching at New York University. His book Becoming a Subject. Political Prisoners during the Greek Civil War, 1945-1950 is coming out in 2001by Berghahn Books. His next project will concern the internal migration and population movements in Greece between the 1920s and 1960s. Michalis Warlas Return to Top