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KATHERINE E. FLEMING
Remarque Institute ● New York University ● 53 Washington Square South, 3rd floor ● New York, NY, 10012 USA ● (+1) 212 998 3660 ● This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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EDUCATION:
1985 (n.d.) King’s College, London THEOLOGY
1988 B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University RELIGION
1989 M.A. University of Chicago RELIGION
1995 PH.D. University of California, Berkeley HISTORY
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
2012 - present DEPUTY PROVOST, New York University
2007 - present VICE CHANCELLOR, New York University
2012 - present PRESIDENT, Board of Directors, University of Piraeus (Greece)
2010 - present DIRECTOR, Remarque Institute, New York University
2007 - present ALEXANDER S. ONASSIS PROFESSOR of Hellenic Culture and Civilization and Professor of History, New York University
2007 - present PROFESSEUR ASSOCIÉ au Département d’histoire, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
1999 - present ASSOCIATE, Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
2010 - 2012 SENIOR VICE PROVOST, New York University
2007 - 2011 DIRECTRICE, Institut Remarque, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2004 - 2010 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Remarque Institute, New York University
2005 - 2009 DIRECTOR, A.S. Onassis Program for Hellenic Studies, New York University
2005 - 2007 DIRECTOR, Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, New York University
2007 INVITED VISITING PROFESSOR of History, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2004 - 2007 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of History & Hellenic Studies, New York University
1998 - 2004 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of History & Hellenic Studies, New York University
1996 - 1998 LECTURER, Department of History, UCLA
1995 - 1996 LECTURER, Department of History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1996 VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA
1994 - 1995 LECTURER, Department of Religion, UC Riverside
1992 - 1993 GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of History, UC Berkeley
1990 - 1991 INSTRUCTOR, ESL, California State University, San Bernardino
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
2015 - present Scientific Committee, Rivista storica italiana
2012 - present Editorial Board, Eurofringes
2010 - 2013 Editorial Board, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
2009 - present Editorial Panel, European History Quarterly
2007 - 2010 Board of Editors, American Historical Review, World History submissions
2006 - 2010 Editorial Board, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
2005 - 2010 Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Arts & Humanities submissions
1996 - 1999 Book Review Editor, South East European Monitor, Vienna
1998 - 1999 Advisor & Editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crete, Cyprus, and Greece submissions
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
MEDITERRANEAN, JEWISH, & GREEK HISTORY; NATIONALISM; RELIGION; HISTORICAL MEMORY
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
2008 Greece – A Jewish History (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
(Paperback edition, 2010)
National Jewish Book Award (Sephardic culture)
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky S. Levy (2008)
The Runciman Award (2009)
Prix Alberto Benveniste, EPHE, Paris (2010)
Honorable Mention, Edmund Keeley Book Prize, MGSA (2009 - 2010)
– Greek translation, Istoria ton Ellinon Evraion (Athens: Odysseas, 2010).
– French translation, Juifs de Grèce (XIXe-XXe siècles) (Paris: PUPS – Presses
de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011).
1999 The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha’s Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
– Greek translation, O Mousoulmanos Vonapartis (Athens: Odysseas, 2000).
– Italian translation, Il Bonaparte musulmano: Diplomazia e orientalismo nella
Grecia di Ali Pascià (Rome: La Nuova Italia, 2001).
– Albanian translation, Bonaparti mysliman. Diplomacia dhe orientalizmi në
Greqinë e Ali Pashës (Tirana: Dituria, 2003).
– Turkish translation (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfi, 2004).
EDITIONS:
2007 A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200-1700. Co-editor,
with Adnan Husain (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007).
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITINGS:
[2016] “«'Οχι»: Greece’s ‘No’ to Austerity,” in Non! The Florence Gould Lectures at New York University, ed. Tom Bishop. (New York: Center for French Civilization and Culture). Vol. 14, 2014/2015.
[2016] “Introduction” to Ilona Steimann and Nikos Stavroulakis, eds., An Illuminated Pirkei
Avot from Venetian Candia: A Historical Introduction (facsimile of Israel Museum, Jerusalem MS 180/102). (Hania: Ets Hayyim, forthcoming).
[2016] “Foreword” to Spyridon Litsas and Aristotle Tziampiris, eds., Foreign Policy Under Austerity: Greece’s Return to Normality? New York and London: Routledge.
2016 “What Remains? Sites of Deportation in Contemporary European Daily Life,” in Hitler’s
Geographies, Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca, eds. Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press): 347-362.
2014 “Salonica’s Jews: A Metropolitan History,” in Jewish History, special issue on Salonican
Jewry; Antony Molho, Eyal Ginio & Paris Papamichos Chronakis, eds. (2014) 28: 449–455
2014 “The Jews of Greece after the Shoah: rebuilding, emigration and the search for
community” in Eyal Ginio, ed., The Jewish Community in Greece (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Tzvi Press), pp. 381-398. [In Hebrew]
2013 “A Roundtable Discussion of The Risorgimento Revisited. Nationalism and Culture in
Nineteenth Century Italy (edited by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall),” in
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 644-657.
2013 “Sacred Seas” review article of Christophe Picard (ed.), La mer et le
sacré en Islam medieval (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 130 (Aix - en - Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2011), in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG): 838-842.
2011 “Early Modern Jewish Histories in Ottoman and Mediterranean Contexts” in
Journal of Modern Hellenism, 28 (Winter 2010 - 2011).
2011 “Tony Judt als Leser. Weiderspruch formt Meinungen” in Süddeutsche Zeitung
(Feuilleton), February 11, 2011.
2010 “Τόνι Τζουντ, Αναγνώστης” [Tony Judt, Reader], in The Athens Review of Books [Η
Αθηναϊκή Επιθεώρηση του Βιβλίου], Vol. 1, No. 10 (September 2010): 18-19. [in Greek]
2010 “Ο Χερτζλ στην Ακρόπολη: Μεγάλες Ιστορίες, Μικρά Κράτη: Ελλάδα, Ισραήλ
και τα όρια του έθνους” [Herzl at the Akropolis – or – Big Histories,
Small States: Greece, Israel, and the Limits of the Nation], in The
Athens Review of Books [Η Αθηναϊκή Επιθεώρηση του Βιβλίου], Vol.
1, No. 8 (June 2010): 32-37. [In Greek]
2010 “Letter from Crete: Two Arson Attacks on a Synagogue of Peace,” in The Forward,
February 19, 2010.
2009 “Balkan in balkansko zgodovinopisje,” in Evroorientalizem/(Z)nova Medicina, Mitja
Velikonja. Mirt Komel, Blaz Ilc, and Tanja Petrovic, eds. (Ljubljiana, Journal for the Criticism of Science). [In Slovenian, translation of “Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography.”]
2008 “Greek Jewish History: Greek, or Jewish?” in European Studies Forum (Council for
European Studies, Columbia University): 38.1.
2007 “The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: The New, Old Mediterranean,” in A
Mediterranean Mosaic of Peace, Tel Aviv: Mediterranean 2020 [reprint] Foundation/Peres Center for Peace (Summer 2007): 16 - 20.
2007 “Two Rabbinic Views of Ottoman Ascendancy: The Cronica de los Reyes Otomanos and
the Seder Eliyahu Zuta,” in A Faithful Sea: Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200 - 1700. Co-edited, with Adnan Husain. Oxford (Oneworld Oxford, 2007): 99-120.
2007 “The Nationalized ‘Greek Jew’: From Auschwitz - Birkenau to Israeli Popular Culture,”
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1 (May, 2007): 17 - 40.
2007 “The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: The New, Old Mediterranean,” in Europe NYC,
February 2007.
2006 “Burning Judas: Anti - Semitism and Public Riot in 19th - Century Greece,” in Peamim,
105-106 (2006): 29-55. [In Hebrew]
2005 “Le relazioni tra Turchia ed Europa in una prospettiva storica,” in Società Geografica
Italiana, Rapporto Annuale 2005. L'Italia nel Mediterraneo", Scenari Italiani, Società Geografica Italiana, Rome, 2005.
2004 “Greece’s Romaniote Communities, 1880 - 1930,” in Sephardi Report, Vol. 1, No. 1
(Spring 2004): 12-14.
2004 “Of Bakeries and Synagogues: Sacred and Secular Jewish Spaces in Early Modern
Crete,” in Jottings: A Quarterly Newsletter on Creta -Jewish Life (Hania, Greece), (Winter, 2004): 2-14.
2004 “Neither Here nor There: Balkanism, ‘the Balkans,’ and Greece,” in Belgrade
Circle Journal, Winter (issue 3-4), 2004 [reprint]
2003 “From Christianity to Islam: Constantinople,” in Ancient World, 97.1 (Autumn, 2003):
69-79.
2003 “South Balkan Rabbinic Readings of Ottoman Rise and Decline: Eliyahu Kapsali of
Crete and Yehuda Alkalai of Zemlin,” in Greece and the Balkans: Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment, Dimitri Tziovas, ed. (Ashgate, 2003): 101-113.
2002 “‘Walls’ around the Torah: The 16th-Century Candia Kahal,” in The Jews of Crete:
Selected Articles and Essays, N. Stavroulakis, ed., (Etz Hayyim, 2002): 1-6.
2002 “Greece in Chains: Philhellenism to the Rescue of a Damsel in Distress,” in Women and
the Colonial Gaze, Tamara L. Hunt & Micheline R. Lessard, eds.
(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002): 38-48.
2001 - 2002 “The Paradoxes of Nationalism: Modern Greek Historiography and the Burden of the
Past,” in Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2
(Autumn/Winter, 2001): 221-237.
2001 “Orijentalizam, Balkan i balkanska istoriografija,” in Filozofija i Drustvo (Philosophy &
Society), Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, No. 18 (2001):
11 - 32. [In Serbian; translation of below]
2000 “Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography,” in American Historical Review,
Vol. 104, No. 4 (October 2000): 1218-1233.
2000 “Athens, Constantinople, ‘Istambol’: Urban Paradigms and 19th-Century Greek National
Identity,” in New Perspectives on Turkey, 22 (Spring/Summer 2000): 1-23.
1997 - 1998 “Ali Pasha and the Powers of Europe, 1797-1800: The Shift Away from an Ottoman
Imperial Model,” in Macedonian Studies, (Winter 1997 - 1998): 3-24.
1997 “Women as Preservers of the Past: Ziya Gokalp and Women’s Reform,” in
Deconstructing Images of the Turkish Woman, Zehra Arat, ed. (St. Martin’s
Press, 1997): 125-138.
1996 - 1997 “The Question of Union and the Fall of Constantinople, 1453,” in Modern Greek Studies
Yearbook, Vol. 12/13 (1996/1997): 35-48.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
[2016] “Almoshnino, Moses” in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Marco Sgarbi, ed.
Springer Reference, forthcoming.
2011 “Greece, Jews of,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture,
Judith R. Baskin, ed. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 207-08.
2011 “Balkans, Jews of,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture,
Judith R. Baskin, ed. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 51-52.
2005 “Abdul-Hamid II,” in Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914 – Encyclopedia of the Age of
Industry and Empire, John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds. (New York:
Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
2005 “Mediterranean Sea,” in Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914 – Encyclopedia of the Age
of Industry and Empire, John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds. (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
2004 “Philhellenism,” in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era (New York: Routledge, 2004):
872-73.
2003 “Greece, Relations with,” in Dictionary of American History, Brooks D. Simpson, ed.
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
Also available at http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2 - 3401801790.html
2000 “Hellenism and Neohellenism in the Greek Tradition,” in Graham Speake, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 726-728.
2000 “Hellenism as Seen through the Eyes of Visiting Artists” in Graham Speake, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 723-726.
2000 “Ottoman Period (Tourkokratia)” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and
the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 1212-1215.
2000 “Armatoloi” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 169-170.
2000 “Ali Pasha of Ioannina” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic
Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 57-58.
2000 “Ioannina” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 816-818.
2000 “Janissaries” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 835-836.
2000 “Mar Saba Monastery” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic
Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 999.
2000 “Jerusalem” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 838-839.
2000 “Antisemitism” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic
Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 98-99.
ASSOCIATE EDITIONS:
2010 Associate Editor, Why Read Kazantzakis in the 21st Century? (Peter Bien, editor, with
Katherine Fleming.) Special volume, Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
Supplement to Vol. 28, No. 1 (May, 2010). (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.)
BOOK REVIEWS:
[2016] Sheila Lecoeur, Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II (London, I.B. Tauris, [2009] 2015), in European History Quarterly. [forthcoming]
[2016] Theodore Zervas, The Making of a Modern Greek Identity: Education, Nationalism, and the Teaching of a Greek National Past (New York, East European Monographs, 2012), in European History Quarterly. [forthcoming]
2014 Corry Guttstadt, Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2009), in American Historical Review, Vol. 119, No. 5 (December, 2014): 1823-1824.
2014 Ayse Ozil, Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia (London: Routledge, 2013), in International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1/2: 125-128.
2014 Berna Pekesen, Nationalismus, Türkisierung und das Ende der jüdischen Gemeinden in
Thrakien 1918 - 1942. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012. For Slavic Review, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall, 2014): 669-670.
2013 Olga Borovaya, Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late
Ottoman Empire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), in Slavic Review, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Summer, 2013): 389-390.
2012 Tijana Krstic, Contested Conversions to Islam. Narratives of Religious Change in the
Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), in
Slavic Review, Vol. 71, No. 3: 669.
2011 Steven Bowman, The Agony of the Greek Jews, 1940 - 1945 (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2009), in Shofar, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter, 2011): 209-210.
2009 Umut Özkirimli and Spyros A. Sofos, Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and
Turkey (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), in Journal of Modern
History, Vol. 81, No. 4 (December, 2009): 101 -1013.
2008 Mary Roberts, Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel
Literature (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), in Journal of Colonialism
and Colonial History, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall, 2008): 3 MS PP.
2007 Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, An Historical and Economic
Geography of Ottoman Greece: Southwest Morea in the Eighteenth Century
(Athens, Greece: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005), in
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. XLI, No. 1 (June, 2007): 54-56.
2007 Penelope Papailias, Genres of Recollection. Archival Poetics and Modern Greece (New
York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), in American Historical Review, February, 2007: 160-161.
2006 Violetta Hionidou, Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941–1944 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006), in History: Reviews of New Books, 22 June, 2006: 127.
2005 Jonathan Kirsch, God Against the Gods. The History of the War between Monotheism
and Polytheism (New York: Penguin, 2005 [2004]), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Summer, 2005): 131.
2005 Jon V. Kofas, Under the Eagle’s Claw: Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S.-Greek Relations
(Westport: Praeger, 2003), in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 120, No. 1 (Spring, 2005): 169-170.
2004 Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece (second edition). (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002), in Ancient History Bulletin, Vol. 18, Nos 3 & 4 (2004):
191-192.
2004 Leon Sciaky, Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads (Philadelphia: Paul Dry
Books, 2003), in Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. 30.1 (2004): 143-145.
2004 Maria Todorova, ed., Balkan Identities. Nation and Memory (London: Hurst and Co.,
2004), in Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2
(Autumn/Winter, 2003/2004): 190-193.
2003 Richard Clogg, ed. and trans., Greece 1940-1949: Occupation, Resistance, Civil War. A
Documentary History. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), in History:
Reviews of New Books, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2003): 115-116.
2003 Dušan Bjelić and Obrad Savić, eds., Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and
Fragmentation (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002), in Slavic Review, No. 3
(Fall, 2003): 597.
2003 Thomas W. Gallant, Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British
Mediterranean (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), in
History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Fall 2003): 73-74.
2003 John Warwick Montgomery, The Repression of Evangelism in Greece: European
Litigation vis -à-vis a Closed Religious Establishment (Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 2001), in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2
(October 2003): 287-289.
2003 Paulina Nasioutzik, Amerikanika oramata sti smyrni ton 19o aiona: H synantisi tis
anglosaxonikis skepsis me tin elliniki [19th-century American visions in Smyrna:
the encounter of Anglosaxon and Greek thought], in Journal of Modern Greek
Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (October 2003): 287-289.
2002 Molly Greene, A Shared World: Muslims and Christians in the Early Modern
Mediterranean (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), in American
Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 1 (February 2002): 161-162.
2002 Leila Fawaz and C.A. Bayly, eds., Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to
the Indian Ocean (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), in
“Greekworks” (www.greekworks.com), 11/15/02.
2002 Kemal Karpat, Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman
Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), in History: Reviews of New
Books, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2002): 91-92 (Feature Review).
2001 Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and “Pagans” in Medieval
Hungary, c. 100 -c.1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), in
History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Fall 2001): 29.
2001 Stratos E. Constantinides, ed., Greece in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of
Works Published in English in Twenty -Two Academic Disciplines during the
Twentieth Century (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2000), in Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies, 25 (2001): 249-250.
2001 Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire (Oxford: Arnold/Oxford,
2001), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Fall 2001): 34.
2001 Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 129.
2001 Peter Van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., Nation and Religion: Perspectives on
Europe and Asia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 18:4 (Fall, 2001): 163-167.
2001 Paul White, Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National
Movement in Turkey (London: Zed Books, 2000), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Summer 2001): 176-177.
2000 Meropi Anastassiadou, Salonique, 1830-1912: Une ville Ottomane à l’âge des Réformes
(Leiden: Brill, 1998), in Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Vol.
2, No. 2 (Autumn 2000): 173-176.
2000 John Koliopoulos, Plundered Loyalties: Axis occupation and civil strife in Greek West
Macedonia, 1941-1949 (New York: NYU Press, 1999), in Times Literary Supplement, February 11, 2000, No. 5054.
1999 Iain Macleod Higgins, Writing East: The “Travels” of Sir John Mandeville (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), in Journal of Early Modern History,
3,4 (1999): 397-399.
1997 Michael H. Jameson, Curtis N. Runnels, and Tjeed H. van Andel, eds., A Greek
Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), In Ancient History Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1997): 140-141.
1997 Curtis N. Runnels, Daniel J. Pullen, and Susan Langdon, eds., Artifact and Assemblage:
The Finds From A Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece, (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1995), In Ancient History Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1997): 140-141.
1996 - 1997 Joseph Matthews, Shades of Resistance (Berkeley: Headlands Press, 1996), in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Vol. 12/13 (1996/1997): 647-648.
1996 - 1997 Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Vol. 12/13 (1996/1997): 641-642.
1996 Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1081 - 1261
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), in Religion, Vol. 26, No. 4
(1996): 398-399.
1996 Stefano Bianchini, Sarajevo le radici dell’odio: Identità e destino dei popoli balcanici
(Rome: Editrice Internazionale, 1993), in South East European Monitor, Vol. III, No. 1 (1996): 83-84.
1996 Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central
Bosnian Village (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), in South East European Monitor, Vol. III, No. 3 (1996): 66-67.
1996 Piero Camporesi, Juice of Life: The Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood. Robert
Barr, trans. (New York: Continuum, 1995), in In These Times, May 27, 1996: 34-35.
1996 Loring Danforth, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational
World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), in South East European
Monitor, Vol. III, No. 2 (1996): 73-74.
1996 Laurie Kain Hart, Time, Religion, and Social Experience in Rural Greece (Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1992), in The Journal of Religion, Vol. 76, No. 1, (January 1996): 162-163.
1996 Valerie J. Hoffman, Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt (Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press), in Religion, Vol. 26, No. 4 (1996): 386-387.
1996 Ephrem Lash, ed. And trans., On the Life of Christ: Kontakia (San Francisco: Harper
Collins, 1995), in South East European Monitor.
1995 Ronald G. Roberson, The Eastern Christian Churches: A Brief Survey (Rome: Edizioni
“Orientalia Christiana”/Pontifical Institute for Oriental Studies, 1990), in
Macedonian Studies.
1995 Jill Dubisch, In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island
Shrine (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), in South East European
Monitor.
1995 Allucquere Rosanne Stone, The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the
Mechanical Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), in In These Times, September 18, 1995: 38-39.
1995 Janet Wolff, Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995), in In These Times, September 18, 1995: 38-39.
1994 Mircea Eliade, Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi, It Does Not Die (both Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994), in The Nation, Oct. 10, 1994: 390-393.
1993 Charles Stewart, Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), in The Journal of Religion, Vol.
73, No. 1 (1993): 142-143.
INTERVIEWS:
2016 CONSULTANT/INTERVIEWEE Athens Rising: a 5-part documentary series on the history of Athens. Arte Television, Europe. 2/24/2016
2015 INTERVIEW 360 Moires [360 degrees], “Ο Ελληνισμός της Αμερικής” [Hellenism in America] Alpha Television, Greece. 6/2015
2014 PROFILE 360 Moires [360 degrees], “Κάθριν Φλέμινγκ” [Katherine Fleming]
Alpha Television, Greece. 6/2014
2011 INTERVIEW for Bystanders & Standing By: Εκτός Ιστορίας [Ouside of History],
documentary by Periklis Kortsaris and Fofo Terzidou, 11/20/2010
2010 INTERVIEW for Les Juifs de Salonique et de la Grèce, documentary by Ioannis
Koutizis, 11/06/2010
2009 INTERVIEW on Greece, a Jewish History, podcast for “Books and Authors in a Pod”
at Podularity.com, uploaded 5/22/2009
2008 INTERVIEW [“They called Salonika the Jerusalem of the Balkans”], in Athens
newspaper Kathimerini, 3/30/2008: front page, Arts & Culture
MISCELLANY:
Board of Advisors, The Education of Historians in the Twenty - First Century, Thomas
Bender, Philip M. Katz, and Colin Palmer, eds. (Illinois: 2004)
Contributor, greekworks.com, 2003 - 2006
Contributor, Los Angeles Reader, 1995 - 1998
Columnist, Indian Review of Books (Delhi, India), 1995 - 1996
Book Reviewer, Riverside Press Enterprise, 1990 - 1992
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Greece’s German Queen (book)
Herzl at the Acropolis. Greece, Israel, and the Limits of the Nation (article)
HONORS & AWARDS:
2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2009 National Jewish Book Award (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2009 The Runciman Award (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2009 Honorable Mention, Edmund Keeley Book Prize (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2008 - 2009 Appointee, UK/US Study Group on Higher Education in a Global Environment
2006 - 2007 Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf) Research Scholarship
2005 - 2006 New York University Research Challenge Fund Grant
2003 - 2005 Humanities Council Workshop Grant (co - recipient)
2002 - 2003 Stephen Charney Vladeck Fellow, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
2001 Goddard Fellowship (fall 2001)
2000 - 2014 NYU Society of Fellows
2000 - 2001 Remarque Institute Faculty Fellowship
1999 - 2000 Golden Dozen Teaching Award, NYU
1999 - 2000 International Center for Advanced Studies Faculty Fellowship (Project on Cities and Urban Knowledge)
1993 - 1995 Mellon Research Fellowship
1991 - 1993 University of California Regents Fellowship
1991 - 1993 F.L.A.S./Title VI Award, Turkish Language
1988 - 1990 Fellowship, University of Chicago Divinity School
1987 Caroline Gallup Reed Prize in Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY (selected):
2015 PANEL MODERATOR, “Leaders and Legends: Biography and Hagiography in Israel Studies,” at Israel Institute Annual Conference, The Harmonie Club, New York, NY, 10/26/15
2015 TALK, “The Greece-Europe Crisis: End of the Road or a Turning Point?” Roundtable at
The Association for the Study of Nationalities, 2015 World Convention, Columbia University, New York, NY, 4/23/15
2015 CHAIR, “Economics after the Crash: A Discipline in Need of Renewal?” at the
Scandinavia House, New York City, NY, 3/15/15
2015 TALK, “Glykia mou Saloniki: Memories of Greece,” at Greek Trade Office, Consulate
General of Greece, Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewry (Series), New York City, NY, 2/3/15
2015 PANEL CHAIR, “Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Rural Greece,” at
American Historical Association, New York City, NY, 1/4/15
2014 TALK, “«'Οχι»: Le non grec à l’austérité,” at Conference, “Non!” Centre de civilization
française NYU Paris, Paris, France, 11/14/2014
2014 TALK, “The Role of Research in Higher Education,” Invited Lecture, NYU London,
London, UK, 12/4/2014
2014 LECTURE, “The Role of Education in Reforming a Society,” at Conference, “Education
Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 5/14/2014
2014 KEYNOTE, at Conference, “Women on Leadership: 24/7,” Sector of Women Managers
and Entrepreneurs and the Hellenic Management Association, Acropolis
Museum, Athens, Greece, 5/13/2014
2013 LECTURE, “Small States, Big Dreams. Herzl at the Acropolis,” at Brown University,
12/4/2013
2013 LECTURE, “Ali Pascha and His Influence on the Greek War of Independence,” at Holy
Trinity Cathedral Center, Greek Independence Day Series, 3/25/2014
2013 LECTURE, “Herzl at the Acropolis,” at Vanderbilt University Jewish Studies,
10/24/2013
2013 LECTURE, “Small States, Big Dreams: Herzl at the Acropolis,” at Johns Hopkins
University, 10/4/13
2013 KEYNOTE, “How an Economic Perspective Changes Historical Interpretation: The Don
Pacifico Affair, 1850,” at ICABE (International Conference on Applied
Business & Economics), CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC,
10/2/2013
2013 TALK, “Whose Subject? The Don Pacifico Affair, 1850,” at Workshop, “Reimagining
Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1750-1860,” at Columbia University, 9/13/2013
2013 DISCUSSANT, “Scholars Weighing in as Public Intellectuals Weighing in on History
and Politics in East Central Europe,” at Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, 4/19/2013
2013 LECTURE, “Neither Jew Nor Greek: Greek Jews after the war,” the 2013 Catharine
Pelican Memorial Lecture at the University of Missouri St. Louis, 3/13/2013
2012 LECTURE, “Herzl at the Acropolis-Small States and the Limits of National Longing,”
Invited Lecture at Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International
Studies, 4/30/2012
2011 TALK, “Herzl at the Acropolis – or – Big Histories, Small States,” Invited Lecture at
Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies, 10/10/2011
2011 PAPER, “Mediterranean: the Limits of Mediterraneanism and Comparativism,” at the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2012, New York, 2/27/2012
2011 DISCUSSANT, “Memory Rituals,” at Performing Memory in the Ancient World – A
Dialogue Between Past and Present, New York, 12/1/2011
2011 PAPER, “Nationalism and the Politics of Memory in Greece,” at CNRS/NYU “UMI”
Conference, In The Tracks of Memory, New York, 11/18/2011
2011 PAPER, “Greek Jews before and after World War II,” at the University of
Munich, 6/16/2011
2011 TALK, “Juifs de Grece,” at the Société des études juives, Ecole des Chartes, Paris,
5/23/2011
2011 PAPER, “Burning Judas: Transnationalism and anti-Semitism in 19th-century Greece,” at
the University of Volos, 2/16/2011
2010 TALK, “Rôle privilégié de l’éducation,” at Colloquium, Albert Gallatin (1761-
1849), un Genevois au service des Etats-Unis d’Amérique, Paris, 9/30/2010
2010 TALK, “Changing Identities in Post-Ottoman Salonika,” at the Zentrum Moderner
Orient Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar, Berlin, 6/14/2010
2010 LECTURE, “Neither Jew nor Greek? Greek Jews after the War,” at King’s College,
London, 5/13/2010
2009 LECTURE, “Herzl at the Acropolis – or – Big Histories, Small States: Greece,Israel, and
the Limits of the Nation,” Invited Lecture at the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), London, 11/11/2009
2009 TALK, “Leaving Greece and Becoming Greek: Greek Jewish Identity in Auschwitz and
Israel,” at Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths College, London, 11/11/2009
2009 TALK, “Leaving Greece and Becoming Greek: Greek Jewish Identity in Auschwitz and
Israel,” at Group for the Study of the History of the Jews of Greece, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, 11/6/2009
2009 TALK, “les migrations judéo-espagnoles aux Etats-Unis (XIXe-XXe siècles)” at the
Cinquième Festivale des Cultures Juives, “l'Amérique au coeur de Paris,” Paris, 6/17/2009
2009 TALK, “Trying to Find Home After the War: Greek Jews, 1944-1955,” Remarque
Institute La Pietra Seminar Series, Florence, Italy, 4/22/2009
2009 PANELIST, Presentation du livre “Il Mare,” di Paolo Frascani, the Sorbonne, Paris,
3/1/3/2009
2009 PANELIST, “Etats-Unis 2009-2013: une nouvelle destinée ?,” Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris, 1/7/2009
2008 INVITED PARTICIPANT, American Council on Education (ACE), US/UK leadership
program, Washington, D.C., 7/7 - 7/9/2008
2008 PANELIST, Round Table, “Les initiatives developpées dans le secteur public,” at
Congrès National BPW de France, (“L’Economie, facteur d’intégration des femmes?”), Levallois-Perret, France, 6/7/2008
2008 DISCUSSANT, Seminar, “Histoires multiples d’une conversion collective au
judaisme dans l’Italie meridionale du XXe siècle: le cas du village de San
Nicandro.,” avec John Davis et Gilles Pecout, la Sorbonne, Paris, 5/30/2008
2008 PANEL MODERATOR, “Les Francais et Garibaldi: en dire du bien et du mal,” at
colloque, “Garibaldi et les Garibaldiens en France: Images, Héritages et Reseaux
du XIXe au XXIe siècle,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2/15/2008
2008 TALK, ““From Greece to Palestine and Back Again: Greek Jews after World War II,” at
the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University,
1/25/08
2007 DISCUSSANT, “Center? Periphery?: Examples from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus,”
at conference, “Historical Continuities, Political Responsibilities: Unsettling Conceptual Blind-Spots in Ottoman and Turkish Studies,” at New York University and The Graduate Center, CUNY, 5/4/07
2007 PANEL MODERATOR, “Letters and the Law,” at Symposium, “A Mediterranean
Mirror: Catalan Law in an International Context,” at New York University, 4/27/07
2007 PARTICIPANT, Convention, “Professori Italiani d’America (USA e Canada) – Le
Scienze Umane e Sociali,” Washington DC, 4/13-4/14/07
2007 TALK, “L'historiographie nord americaine de la Mediterranée,” at Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, 4/5/07
2007 TALK, “Les sources juives comme sources Ottomanes: deux examples (Crète 16ème
siècle, Serbie 19ème siècle), at L’Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Paris, 4/2/07
2007 TALK, “Methode et categorie: qu’est-ce que c’est qu’un ‘Grec Juif’?” at
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 3/24/07
2007 TALK, “Ali Pasha et la probleme historiographique des provinces Ottomanes,” at
“Journee des Etudes Turques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 3/23/07
2007 DISCUSSANT, “Reform to the Letter? Provincializing the Ottoman Tanzimat in 19th-
Century Cyprus,” paper given by Marc Aymes (EHESS, Paris), at the NYU Kevorkian Center, 3/05/07
2007 HOST, Conference, “A Kazantzakis Celebration,” sponsored by the Hellenic Foundation
for Culture, Athens, at New York University, 3/3/06
2007 ORGANIZER, Symposium/Workshop, “War, Atrocity, Terror: Europe Since 1900,” co -
sponsored by the Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, NYU and the Yale University European Studies Council, 2/22 - 2/23/07
2006 TALK, “The Messianic Sultan: Mediterranean Rabbis Interpret Ottoman History,” at
New York University Ottoman history series, 12/14/06
2006 TALK, “The Messianic Sultan: Mediterranean Rabbis Interpret Ottoman History,” at
Columbia University Society of Fellows, 10/26/06
2006 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science Orientation. “On
Being a Scholar: The Graduate School Experience,” 9/8/06
2006 DISCUSSANT, The Recent Work of Speros Vryonis Jr. The 1955 Pogrom in Istanbul,
at Workshop for Armenian/Turkish Studies annual meeting, New York, 5/16/06
2006 PAPER, “Greek Jews after Greece: The Post-War Greek-Jewish Diaspora,” at
conference, Conflicting Memories and European Integration, NYU, 4/20-4/21/06
2006 TALK, “From Greece to Palestine and Back Again: Greek Jews after World War II,” at
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU, 2/8/06
2006 ORGANIZER, Symposium/Workshop, “Catalonia and Beyond: National and Regional
Identities and the New Europe,” co-sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull and
the Remarque Institute, NYU, 2/3/06
2005 PANEL CHAIR, “Building on the Past: the European Doctorate in the Social History of
Europe and the Mediterranean, Marie Curie Fellows Seminar,” at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 12/15-12/17/02
2005 TALK, “The Barcelona Process in Historical Perspective,” at the Weissman Center for
International Business, sponsored by the Delegation of the European
Commission to the United Nations, New York, 12/5/05
2005 TALK, “The Nationalized ‘Greek Jew’: From Auschwitz-Birkenau to Israel/Palestine,”
at Department of History, Indiana University, 12/2/05
2005 PANELIST, “How to Get Tenure at NYU,” event organized by NYU Women’s Faculty
Caucus, 11/18/05
2005 TALK, “How Far East does Europe Go?: Greece, Turkey, and the EU” at conference,
“Europe and its Others in the Mirror of Transatlantic Relations,” Institute for the
Study of Europe, Columbia University, 11/11/05
2005 LECTURE, “From Greece to Palestine and back Again: Greek Jews Post-War,” invited
lecture at Brown University, 11/02/05
2005 TALK, “Modern Greece: An Overview,” at Fulbright-Hays (Greece/Cyprus) Pre-
Departure Orientation, New York University, 5/27/05
2005 PAPER, “The Jews of Salonica,” at International Conference on Religion, Identity, and
Empire, European Studies Council/Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 4/17/05
2005 PAPER, “The Nationalized ‘Greek Jew,’” European Studies Workshop, NYU, 3/29/05
2005 TALK, “The Gospel Riots, 1901,” CAS Scholars’ Lecture Series, NYU, 3/28/05
2004 PANEL CHAIR, “After Enlightenment,” A Symposium in Honor of Jerrold Seigel,
Nice, France, 4/22/04
2004 TALK, “The Center of Europe? Greece, the Balkans, and European History,” University
of Michigan Center for Russian and European Studies Southeast Europe group,
2/4/04
2003 TALK, “Greek Spirits in Greek Bodies: Metaxas and the Jews,” at the Remarque
Institute, NYU, 11/14/03
2003 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS & PANEL CHAIR, Partisan Histories: The
Use and Misuse of the Past in Modern Politics, Remarque Institute, NYU, 10/24 - 25/03
2003 INTERVIEW, “Will and Freedom in Western History,” WNYU 89.1, 10/30/03
2003 DISCUSSANT, “Nationalism and Memory in Turkish History: the Armenian Massacres
of 1915,” paper presented by Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan), at
the NYU Kevorkian Center, 10/27/03
2003 PANEL CHAIR, “Reading the Past: New Views, Topics, and Perspectives,” at the
Modern Greek Studies Association biannual symposium, Toronto, 10/18/03
2003 TALK, “Greece’s Romaniote Communities, 1880-1930,” at the Center for Jewish
History/American Sephardi Federation, New York, 10/16/03
2003 PANEL MODERATOR, “The United States and the Middle East,” at NYU Graduate
School of Arts and Science Dean’s Day, 4/5/03
2003 TALK, “Escaping Plato’s Cave: Education and Why You Need It,” at NYU College of
Arts and Science Accepted Students’ Day, 3/28/03
2003 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Modern Europeanists’ Luncheon, at the annual meeting of the
American Historical Association, 1/4/03
2002 PANELIST, “Understanding Religious Violence,” at New York University’s Installation
of the 15th President, 9/26/02
2002 TALK, “Of Bakeries and Synagogues: Jewish Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Crete,” at
Symposium, “A Saint Belongs to the Whole World”: Social and Cultural Uses of Sacred Space in the Orthodox and Ottoman Worlds, Birkbeck College, University of London, 5/8/02
2002 TALK, “Constantinople: Christendom to Islam,” at “Saving the City”: War, Disaster,
and Recovery in the Ancient World, The 2002 Rose-Marie Lewent Conference
on Ancient Studies, NYU, 4/12/02
2002 PAPER, “The Language of Orthodoxy: Hellenism and the Gospel Riots of 1901,” at
Modern Greece in International Context, a Symposium,” Department of History,
York University, Toronto, 3/22/02
2001 TALK, “History and Social Construction,” a response to Paul Boghossian, “What is
Social Construction?” at the NYU Society of Fellows, 12/5/01
2001 PANEL CHAIR, “Greek Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Memory,” at the Modern Greek
Studies Association biannual symposium, Washington, D.C., 10/27/01
2001 PAPER, “Jewish Intellectual Trends in the Early Modern Balkans,” at the University of
Birmingham Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies
conference, Greece and the Balkans: Cultural Encounters since the
Enlightenment, 6/30/2001
2001 PAPER, “Community and Identity in the Ottoman Jewish Imagination, 16th-19th
Centuries” at Princeton Hellenic Studies Workshop, Before Nationalism: Religion and Identity in the Orthodox and Ottoman Worlds, 5/11/2001
2001 PAPER, “Becoming European: Athens, Constantinople, and the Gospel Riots of 1901,”
at the Fordham University European Studies Colloquium, 4/5/2001
2001 TALK, “The Ottoman Empire: An Overview,” at Joint HHA/Turkish Society, NYU,
lecture series, Demystifying Cultural Boundaries: Dismantling the Greek-Turkish Conflict in the post-Byzantine Era, 3/26/2001
2001 TALK, “What Makes Jewish History Jewish? Two Early Modern Accounts of the Rise
of the Ottomans,” at The Remarque Institute, NYU, 2/23/2001
2000 RESPONDENT, “Contraband, Cooperation, and Competition in the Straits of Melaka
during the Late Nineteenth Century,” paper presented by Professor Eric
Tagliacozzo (Cornell) at the NYU Kevorkian Center Research Workshop,
Creolization in the Indian Ocean, 12/5/2000
2000 RESPONDENT, “Defining the ‘National Historic Mission’ of Izmir, 19th Century-
1919,” paper presented by Professor Athanasia Anagnostopoulou (University of
Cyprus), visiting scholar sponsored through NYU’s International Visitors
Program, Kevorkian Center, NYU, 11/27/2000
2000 INVITED PARTICIPANT, National Council on Education in the Disciplines/American
Historical Association Joint Workshop, History in the Liberal Arts Education,
Washington, D.C., 11/18-11/19/2000
2000 LECTURE, “The Language of Orthodoxy: Hellenism in the Modern Period,” Loyola
Marymount University (Los Angeles), invited lecture in lecture series, Hellenism, 11/15/2000
2000 TALK, “How to be an Obscurantist,” at the History of Women and Gender Breakfast
Series, NYU, 5/3/2000
2000 LECTURE, “Greek Orthodoxy and the Language of Hellenism,” at the Sunday Evening
Seminar, Wilmington, Delaware, 5/7/2000
1999 LECTURE, “The Balkan Backdrop to David Edgar’s Pentecost,” at the Drama
Department, NYU, 12/11/99
1999 PAPER, “Athens as Ottoman Domain,” at the annual conference of the Middle Eastern
Studies Association, Washington, DC, 11/99
1999 PAPER, “Metaphoric Turks: the Communists and the Greek Civil War,” at the annual
conference of The Modern Greek Studies Association, Princeton, New Jersey,
11/99
1999 PAPER, “Athens, Constantinople, and the Gospel Riots of 1901: Urban Paradigms and
Modern Greek National Identity,” at the International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS), NYU, 10/22/99
1999 PAPER, “Martyrdom and Greek Liberation: The Strange Case of Kyra Phrosine (1801),”
at Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies, Modern Greek Seminar
Series, 4/28/99
1999 PANEL PARTICIPANT, Center for European Studies, New York University,
discussion of Costa-Gavras’ “Z,” Cantor Film Center, 2/4/99
1998 PAPER, “Memory, Metaphor, and Greek National Identity,” at CUNY Graduate
Center’s Seminar on the Modern Greek State, NY, NY, 11/11/98
1998 PANELIST, Round Table Discussion at the Annual Meeting of the Center for Exilic
Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 10/6/98
1996 PAPER, “The Aegean World of Ali Pasha,” at Aegean Crossroads, a conference
organized by the Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Hellenic Studies at Loyola
Marymount University, LA, CA, 11/96
1996 PAPER, “Sultan Fatih Mehmet: A Contemporary Muslim Portrayal of the Fall of
Constantinople, 1453,” at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies
Association, Providence, RI, 11/96
1996 PAPER, “Greek Orientalisms in the 19th Century,” at Deep Springs College, 10/96
1993 PAPER, “Gender and Turkish Reform Movements,” at Nationalism, a conference
organized by the Department of History, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,
1/93
1992 PAPER, “Ziya Gokalp’s Reformed Woman,” at the annual conference of the Middle East
Studies Association, Portland, OR, 10/92
SERVICE & ADMINISTRATION:
NYU DEPARTMENTAL:
2011 - 2012 Chair, tenure review committee, Kostis Smyrlis (History/Hellenic Studies)
2009 - present Hellenic Studies Advisory Board, FAS
2009 - 2010 Chair, clinical appointment review committee, Liana Theodoratou (Hellenic Studies)
2008 - 2009 Chair, third-year review committee, Kostis Smyrlis (History/Hellenic Studies)
2007 - 2008 Tenure review committee, John Shovlin (History)
2007 - 2011 MA Advisor, NYU in France
2006 - 2007 Chair, third-year review committee, Karl Appuhn (History)
2006 - 2008 German Department Associate Professor Search Committee (German)
2005 - 2009 Director, A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies
2005 - 2006 Chair, Byzantine History Search Committee (History/Hellenic Studies)
2005 - 2006 Honors Program Advisor (History)
2005 - 2006 Armenian Studies ad-hoc committee (History)
2005 - 2006 Third-year review Committee, Chris Otter (History)
2003 - 2005 Planning and Advisory Committee (History)
2004 - 2005 Ottoman History Search Committee (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/History)
2000 - 2005 Director of Graduate Study (Hellenic Studies)
2000 - 2005 Bobst Library Departmental Liaison (History)
2004 - 2005 Modern East European History Search Committee (History)
2003 - 2004 Graduate Admissions & Fellowships Committee (History)
2003 - 2004 Eighteenth Century European History Search Committee (History)
2002 - 2003 Modern European History Search Committee (History)
2001 - 2002 Chair, Graduate Admissions & Fellowships Committee (History)
2000 - 2002 Departmental Steering Committee (History)
2000 - 2001 Departmental Finance Committee (History)
1999 - 2000 Modern European History Search Committee (History)
1999 - 2001 Director of Undergraduate Study (Hellenic Studies)
1998 - 1999 African History Search Committee (History)
1998 - 1999 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (History)
1998 - 1999 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Hellenic Studies)
NYU UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE:
2011 - 2012 Global Site Staffing and Support Taskforce
2010 - present President’s Senior Team
2010 - 2012 Global Framework Team Taskforce
2010 - 2013 Global Sites Core / Foley committee
2010 - present Director, Remarque Institute
2007 - 2010 Global Team
2007 - 2010 Director, Remarque Institute in Europe
2005 - present Provost’s Advisory Group
2005 - present University Leadership Team
2005 - 2009 Director, A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies
2004 - 2010 Associate Director, Remarque Institute
2004 - 2010 Advisory Board, Remarque Institute
2006 - 2007 GSAS Honors and Awards Committee
2005 - 2007 FAS Committee on Graduate Curriculum (elected)
2005 - 2007 Provost Fellow; Faculty Director, NYU-AUP partnership
2005 - 2007 Faculty Advisory Committee on Academic Priorities
2005 - 2007 Co-Director, Mediterranean Studies Group, New York University
2005 - 2007 DURF Selection Committee
2005 - 2006 GSAS/Steinhardt Collaboration on Teaching Foreign Languages Committee
2005 - 2006 Acton Fellowship selection committee
2005 - 2006 Editorial Board, NYU Audible Journal
2004 - 2005 NYU - in - Athens Planning Committee
2004 - 2005 Villa La Pietra Faculty Affinity Group
2004 - 2005 International Visitors Program Selection Committee
2003 - 2014 Bobst Library Faculty Collections Advisory Committee
2003 - 2014 Steering Committee, NYU Society of Fellows
2003 - 2005 Co - Director, Mediterranean Studies Humanities Council Workshop
2003 - 2005 F.A.S. European/Mediterranean Studies MA Advisory Committee
2003 - 2004 F.A.S Distinguished Teacher Award Selection Committee
2002 - 2007 Adviser, Gallatin School for Individualized Study
2002 - 2006 C.A.S. Faculty Phonathon
2002 - 2005 Steering Committee, Mediterranean Studies working group
2002 - 2003 C.A.S. Faculty Mentor Program for Freshman Advising
2002 - 2003 C.A.S. Dean’s Undergraduate Research Grant Selection Committee
2001 - present NYU Society of Fellows
2000 - 2002 F.A.S. Committee on Graduate Financial Aid (F.A.C.)
2000 - 2002 Bobst Library University Liaison Committee
2000 - 2002 C.A.S. Freshman Dialogue Planning Committee
2000 - 2001 G.S.A.S. Opportunity Fellowship Nominations Committee
NATIONAL:
2010 - 2011 Local Arrangements Committee, Modern Greek Studies Association
2009 Member, Modern Greek Studies Association Graduate Student Essay Prize Committee
2005 Chair, Modern Greek Studies Association Dissertation Prize Committee
2004 - 2005 Modern Greek Studies Association Graduate Studies Committee
2001 - 2003 Member, Advisory Committee to the American Historical Association’s Committee on
Graduate Education
2000 - 2003 Executive Board Member, Modern Greek Studies Association (elected)
2000 - 2002 Professional Associations Liaison of the Modern Greek Studies Association to the
Middle East Studies Association and American Academy of Religion
2001 Member, National Council on Education in the Disciplines/American Historical
Association Workshop, History in the Liberal Arts Education
2000 - 2001 Chair, Modern Greek Studies Association Administrative Oversight Committee
2000 - 2001 Modern Greek Studies Association Publicity and Membership Committee
INTERNATIONAL:
2012 - 2015 Scientific Committee, Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, University of Siena
2011 - present Evaluator, National Hellenic Research Foundation
2010 - 2011 Advisor, Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF)
2009 - present External Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths/University of
London
2008 - 2009 External Doctoral Examiner, Birkbeck College, University of London
2008 - 2009 UK/US Study Group on Higher Education in a Global Environment (deputy)
2007 - 2010 Scientific Advisory Committee, International Center for Hellenic Research (ICHR), Nice,
France
2005 - 2008 External Member, European Doctorate in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean Consortium
2005 - 2007 Advisory Board, SEEU (South East European University), Tetovo, Macedonia and SEE
University Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
1999- present Delegate to Greek Cultural Ministry for the Modern Greek Studies Association
1996 - 1999 Book Review Editor, South East European Monitor (Vienna)
BOARD SERVICE:
2016 - present Board of Advisors, Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Institute of International Education (New York and Greece)
2013 - present President, Board of Trustees, University of Piraeus (Greece)
2008 - present Board of Advisors, Etz Hayyim Synagogue, Hania (Crete, Greece)
2003 - 2005 Board of Trustees, SEE University, Tetovo, Macedonia and SEE University Foundation
(Zurich, Switzerland)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE:
EXTERNAL DOCTORAL JURIST, University of Crete, Rethymnon
EXTERNAL DOCTORAL JURIST, EPHE – Sorbonne, Paris
EDITORIAL BOARD, American Historical Review
EDITORIAL PANEL, European History Quarterly
EDITORIAL BOARD, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
EDITORIAL BOARD, International Journal of Politics, Culture, & Society
EXTERNAL REVIEWER/Consultant, Nationalities Papers, American Journal of
Islamic Social Sciences, Slavic Review, European History Quarterly, Agricultural History, Esquire Magazine, Journal of Modern History, The Historian, Women’s World Magazine, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press
PARTICIPANT, Study of New Scholars, Harvard Graduate School of Education/Ford
Foundation (2000)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, GSAS Convocation, 9/8/2006
SPEAKER, GSAS Advisory Board Meeting, 10/13/2004
SPEAKER, CAS Recruitment/Admissions, Fall, 2003, 2004
PARTICIPANT, CAS Annual Faculty Phonathon (undergraduate recruitment), 2000—
MOCK INTERVIEWER, CAS, Rhodes, and Marshall Fellowships, 2000, 2001, 2003
HOODER, GSAS Graduation, 2001
SPONSOR, NYU International Visitors Program visitor (Dr. Athanasia
Anagnostopoulou, University of Cyprus), 2000 - 2001
DIRECTOR of GRADUATE STUDY, Hellenic Studies, 2000 - 2005
DIRECTOR of UNDERGRADUATE STUDY, Hellenic Studies, 1999
LECTURER, CAS Accepted Students Day, 2003, 2004
LECTURER, CAS Parents Day, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
CONTRIBUTOR, Humanities Insights, Office of the Dean for Humanities, NYU
CONSULTANT, Dictionary of the History of Ideas
MEMBER, Women’s Faculty Caucus
PARTICIPANT, CAS Scholars Lecture Series, 2004 - 05
COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING RELATED:
1999 - 2000 recipient, NYU GOLDEN DOZEN TEACHING AWARD
The Mediterranean and South- - East European Region (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2011
Atelier d’histoire contemporaine: Du Danube a l’Adriatique -- Historiographie comparée
de l’Europe centrale et méridionale (ENS 2010, 2011) Atelier Méditerranée NYU - ENS : Les Américains, les Européens et la Méditerranée du
XVIIIe au XXe siècle (graduate) (ENS 2008 - 09; 2009 - 10)
Lire les mondes contemporains – atelier de la lecture de l’historiographie française et
étrangère sur le monde de la fin du XVIIIe s. au XXIe siècle (ENS 2007)
The Mediterranean in Historical Perspective (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2006
Conversations of the West: Middle Ages (NYU) – spring, 2006
Approaches to Historical Research and Writing (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2005
MA Pro-Seminar (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2004
Literature of the Field: Europe, 20th Century (graduate) (NYU) – spring, 2004
Literature of the Field: Cultural History (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2002
Participant, 3rd year Methods Seminar (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2002
Literature of the Field: Europe, 19th Century (graduate) (NYU) – spring, 2002
The Balkans (NYU)—autumn, 2000
Greece and Western Europe, 1700-1900 (NYU)—autumn, 1999; autumn, 2002
Conversations of the West: Enlightenment (NYU)—autumn 1998, ’99, ’00; spring, 2002
Modern Greek History (NYU)—spring, 1999; spring, 2004
Nationalism in Greece and the Balkans (graduate) (NYU)—spring, 1999
The Eastern Question, 1774-1923 (NYU)—autumn, 1998
World History, 3500BCE-500 CE (UCLA)
World History, modern period (UCLA)
Methodology of Teaching World History (graduate) (UCLA)
Southeastern Europe, 1500-1918 (UCLA)
Southeastern Europe, 1918-present (UCLA)
Modern Balkans in Historical Perspective (Deep Springs College)
Introduction to New Testament Exegesis (Deep Springs College)
Intensive Introductory New Testament Greek (Deep Springs College)
Western Civilization, ancient period to the Renaissance (Loyola Marymount)
Western Civilization, the Renaissance to the modern period (Loyola Marymount)
Western Religious Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (UC Riverside)
Islam and the West (UC Riverside)
Introduction to Islam (UC Riverside)
History of the Middle East: Survey (as teaching assistant, UC Berkeley)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
AMERICAN ACADEMY of RELIGION
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION
MODERN GREEK STUDIES ASSOCIATION
LANGUAGES:
ENGLISH, FRENCH, GREEK, HEBREW, ITALIAN, SPANISH, TURKISH
REFERENCES:
Administrative/Exective:
Monique Canto-Sperber, Directrice Émerite, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Tom Carew, Dean of the Faculty, New York University
Richard Foley, Vice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty emeritus, New York University
David McLaughlin, Provost, New York University
John Sexton, President, New York University
Joseph Juliano, Vice Provost & Associate Vice Chancellor, New York University
Celeste Schenck, President, American University in Paris
Academic:
Dimitri Gondicas, Executive Director, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Antony Molho, Professor Emeritus, Brown University & European University Institute
David N. Myers, Chairman, Department of History, UCLA
Mark Mazower, Chairman, Department of History, Columbia University
Gilles Pécout, Chairman, Department of History, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Larry Wolff, Director, Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, NYU
KATHERINE E. FLEMING
Remarque Institute ● New York University ● 53 Washington Square South, 3rd floor ● New York, NY, 10012 USA ● (+1) 212 998 3660 ● This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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EDUCATION:
1985 (n.d.) King’s College, London THEOLOGY
1988 B.A. Barnard College, Columbia University RELIGION
1989 M.A. University of Chicago RELIGION
1995 PH.D. University of California, Berkeley HISTORY
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT:
2012 - present DEPUTY PROVOST, New York University
2007 - present VICE CHANCELLOR, New York University
2012 - present PRESIDENT, Board of Directors, University of Piraeus (Greece)
2010 - present DIRECTOR, Remarque Institute, New York University
2007 - present ALEXANDER S. ONASSIS PROFESSOR of Hellenic Culture and Civilization and Professor of History, New York University
2007 - present PROFESSEUR ASSOCIÉ au Département d’histoire, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
1999 - present ASSOCIATE, Department of Middle Eastern & Islamic Studies, New York University
2010 - 2012 SENIOR VICE PROVOST, New York University
2007 - 2011 DIRECTRICE, Institut Remarque, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2004 - 2010 ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR, Remarque Institute, New York University
2005 - 2009 DIRECTOR, A.S. Onassis Program for Hellenic Studies, New York University
2005 - 2007 DIRECTOR, Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, New York University
2007 INVITED VISITING PROFESSOR of History, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2004 - 2007 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR of History & Hellenic Studies, New York University
1998 - 2004 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR of History & Hellenic Studies, New York University
1996 - 1998 LECTURER, Department of History, UCLA
1995 - 1996 LECTURER, Department of History, Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles
1996 VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Deep Springs College, Deep Springs, CA
1994 - 1995 LECTURER, Department of Religion, UC Riverside
1992 - 1993 GRADUATE TEACHING ASSISTANT, Department of History, UC Berkeley
1990 - 1991 INSTRUCTOR, ESL, California State University, San Bernardino
EDITORIAL POSITIONS:
2015 - present Scientific Committee, Rivista storica italiana
2012 - present Editorial Board, Eurofringes
2010 - 2013 Editorial Board, Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History
2009 - present Editorial Panel, European History Quarterly
2007 - 2010 Board of Editors, American Historical Review, World History submissions
2006 - 2010 Editorial Board, International Journal of Politics, Culture, and Society
2005 - 2010 Editorial Board, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Arts & Humanities submissions
1996 - 1999 Book Review Editor, South East European Monitor, Vienna
1998 - 1999 Advisor & Editor, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Crete, Cyprus, and Greece submissions
RESEARCH INTERESTS:
MEDITERRANEAN, JEWISH, & GREEK HISTORY; NATIONALISM; RELIGION; HISTORICAL MEMORY
PUBLICATIONS:
BOOKS:
2008 Greece – A Jewish History (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
(Paperback edition, 2010)
National Jewish Book Award (Sephardic culture)
Mimi S. Frank Award in Memory of Becky S. Levy (2008)
The Runciman Award (2009)
Prix Alberto Benveniste, EPHE, Paris (2010)
Honorable Mention, Edmund Keeley Book Prize, MGSA (2009 - 2010)
– Greek translation, Istoria ton Ellinon Evraion (Athens: Odysseas, 2010).
– French translation, Juifs de Grèce (XIXe-XXe siècles) (Paris: PUPS – Presses
de l’Université Paris-Sorbonne, 2011).
1999 The Muslim Bonaparte: Diplomacy and Orientalism in Ali Pasha’s Greece (Princeton: Princeton University Press).
– Greek translation, O Mousoulmanos Vonapartis (Athens: Odysseas, 2000).
– Italian translation, Il Bonaparte musulmano: Diplomazia e orientalismo nella
Grecia di Ali Pascià (Rome: La Nuova Italia, 2001).
– Albanian translation, Bonaparti mysliman. Diplomacia dhe orientalizmi në
Greqinë e Ali Pashës (Tirana: Dituria, 2003).
– Turkish translation (Istanbul: Tarih Vakfi, 2004).
EDITIONS:
2007 A Faithful Sea: The Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200-1700. Co-editor,
with Adnan Husain (Oxford: Oneworld, 2007).
ARTICLES, CHAPTERS, ESSAYS, & OTHER WRITINGS:
[2016] “«'Οχι»: Greece’s ‘No’ to Austerity,” in Non! The Florence Gould Lectures at New York University, ed. Tom Bishop. (New York: Center for French Civilization and Culture). Vol. 14, 2014/2015.
[2016] “Introduction” to Ilona Steimann and Nikos Stavroulakis, eds., An Illuminated Pirkei
Avot from Venetian Candia: A Historical Introduction (facsimile of Israel Museum, Jerusalem MS 180/102). (Hania: Ets Hayyim, forthcoming).
[2016] “Foreword” to Spyridon Litsas and Aristotle Tziampiris, eds., Foreign Policy Under Austerity: Greece’s Return to Normality? New York and London: Routledge.
2016 “What Remains? Sites of Deportation in Contemporary European Daily Life,” in Hitler’s
Geographies, Paolo Giaccaria and Claudio Minca, eds. Farnham, Surrey, Ashgate (Chicago: University of Chicago Press): 347-362.
2014 “Salonica’s Jews: A Metropolitan History,” in Jewish History, special issue on Salonican
Jewry; Antony Molho, Eyal Ginio & Paris Papamichos Chronakis, eds. (2014) 28: 449–455
2014 “The Jews of Greece after the Shoah: rebuilding, emigration and the search for
community” in Eyal Ginio, ed., The Jewish Community in Greece (Jerusalem: Yad Ben-Tzvi Press), pp. 381-398. [In Hebrew]
2013 “A Roundtable Discussion of The Risorgimento Revisited. Nationalism and Culture in
Nineteenth Century Italy (edited by Silvana Patriarca and Lucy Riall),” in
Journal of Modern Italian Studies, 2013, Vol. 18, No. 5, pp. 644-657.
2013 “Sacred Seas” review article of Christophe Picard (ed.), La mer et le
sacré en Islam medieval (Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée 130 (Aix - en - Provence: Presses Universitaires de Provence, 2011), in Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (ZDMG): 838-842.
2011 “Early Modern Jewish Histories in Ottoman and Mediterranean Contexts” in
Journal of Modern Hellenism, 28 (Winter 2010 - 2011).
2011 “Tony Judt als Leser. Weiderspruch formt Meinungen” in Süddeutsche Zeitung
(Feuilleton), February 11, 2011.
2010 “Τόνι Τζουντ, Αναγνώστης” [Tony Judt, Reader], in The Athens Review of Books [Η
Αθηναϊκή Επιθεώρηση του Βιβλίου], Vol. 1, No. 10 (September 2010): 18-19. [in Greek]
2010 “Ο Χερτζλ στην Ακρόπολη: Μεγάλες Ιστορίες, Μικρά Κράτη: Ελλάδα, Ισραήλ
και τα όρια του έθνους” [Herzl at the Akropolis – or – Big Histories,
Small States: Greece, Israel, and the Limits of the Nation], in The
Athens Review of Books [Η Αθηναϊκή Επιθεώρηση του Βιβλίου], Vol.
1, No. 8 (June 2010): 32-37. [In Greek]
2010 “Letter from Crete: Two Arson Attacks on a Synagogue of Peace,” in The Forward,
February 19, 2010.
2009 “Balkan in balkansko zgodovinopisje,” in Evroorientalizem/(Z)nova Medicina, Mitja
Velikonja. Mirt Komel, Blaz Ilc, and Tanja Petrovic, eds. (Ljubljiana, Journal for the Criticism of Science). [In Slovenian, translation of “Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography.”]
2008 “Greek Jewish History: Greek, or Jewish?” in European Studies Forum (Council for
European Studies, Columbia University): 38.1.
2007 “The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: The New, Old Mediterranean,” in A
Mediterranean Mosaic of Peace, Tel Aviv: Mediterranean 2020 [reprint] Foundation/Peres Center for Peace (Summer 2007): 16 - 20.
2007 “Two Rabbinic Views of Ottoman Ascendancy: The Cronica de los Reyes Otomanos and
the Seder Eliyahu Zuta,” in A Faithful Sea: Religious Cultures of the Mediterranean, 1200 - 1700. Co-edited, with Adnan Husain. Oxford (Oneworld Oxford, 2007): 99-120.
2007 “The Nationalized ‘Greek Jew’: From Auschwitz - Birkenau to Israeli Popular Culture,”
Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 25, No. 1 (May, 2007): 17 - 40.
2007 “The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership: The New, Old Mediterranean,” in Europe NYC,
February 2007.
2006 “Burning Judas: Anti - Semitism and Public Riot in 19th - Century Greece,” in Peamim,
105-106 (2006): 29-55. [In Hebrew]
2005 “Le relazioni tra Turchia ed Europa in una prospettiva storica,” in Società Geografica
Italiana, Rapporto Annuale 2005. L'Italia nel Mediterraneo", Scenari Italiani, Società Geografica Italiana, Rome, 2005.
2004 “Greece’s Romaniote Communities, 1880 - 1930,” in Sephardi Report, Vol. 1, No. 1
(Spring 2004): 12-14.
2004 “Of Bakeries and Synagogues: Sacred and Secular Jewish Spaces in Early Modern
Crete,” in Jottings: A Quarterly Newsletter on Creta -Jewish Life (Hania, Greece), (Winter, 2004): 2-14.
2004 “Neither Here nor There: Balkanism, ‘the Balkans,’ and Greece,” in Belgrade
Circle Journal, Winter (issue 3-4), 2004 [reprint]
2003 “From Christianity to Islam: Constantinople,” in Ancient World, 97.1 (Autumn, 2003):
69-79.
2003 “South Balkan Rabbinic Readings of Ottoman Rise and Decline: Eliyahu Kapsali of
Crete and Yehuda Alkalai of Zemlin,” in Greece and the Balkans: Identities, Perceptions and Cultural Encounters since the Enlightenment, Dimitri Tziovas, ed. (Ashgate, 2003): 101-113.
2002 “‘Walls’ around the Torah: The 16th-Century Candia Kahal,” in The Jews of Crete:
Selected Articles and Essays, N. Stavroulakis, ed., (Etz Hayyim, 2002): 1-6.
2002 “Greece in Chains: Philhellenism to the Rescue of a Damsel in Distress,” in Women and
the Colonial Gaze, Tamara L. Hunt & Micheline R. Lessard, eds.
(Palgrave/Macmillan, 2002): 38-48.
2001 - 2002 “The Paradoxes of Nationalism: Modern Greek Historiography and the Burden of the
Past,” in Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Vol. 3, No. 2
(Autumn/Winter, 2001): 221-237.
2001 “Orijentalizam, Balkan i balkanska istoriografija,” in Filozofija i Drustvo (Philosophy &
Society), Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, No. 18 (2001):
11 - 32. [In Serbian; translation of below]
2000 “Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography,” in American Historical Review,
Vol. 104, No. 4 (October 2000): 1218-1233.
2000 “Athens, Constantinople, ‘Istambol’: Urban Paradigms and 19th-Century Greek National
Identity,” in New Perspectives on Turkey, 22 (Spring/Summer 2000): 1-23.
1997 - 1998 “Ali Pasha and the Powers of Europe, 1797-1800: The Shift Away from an Ottoman
Imperial Model,” in Macedonian Studies, (Winter 1997 - 1998): 3-24.
1997 “Women as Preservers of the Past: Ziya Gokalp and Women’s Reform,” in
Deconstructing Images of the Turkish Woman, Zehra Arat, ed. (St. Martin’s
Press, 1997): 125-138.
1996 - 1997 “The Question of Union and the Fall of Constantinople, 1453,” in Modern Greek Studies
Yearbook, Vol. 12/13 (1996/1997): 35-48.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES:
[2016] “Almoshnino, Moses” in Encyclopedia of Renaissance Philosophy, Marco Sgarbi, ed.
Springer Reference, forthcoming.
2011 “Greece, Jews of,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture,
Judith R. Baskin, ed. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 207-08.
2011 “Balkans, Jews of,” in Cambridge Dictionary of Judaism and Jewish Culture,
Judith R. Baskin, ed. (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011): 51-52.
2005 “Abdul-Hamid II,” in Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914 – Encyclopedia of the Age of
Industry and Empire, John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds. (New York:
Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
2005 “Mediterranean Sea,” in Encyclopedia of Europe 1789-1914 – Encyclopedia of the Age
of Industry and Empire, John Merriman and Jay Winter, eds. (New York: Scribner’s Sons, 2005).
2004 “Philhellenism,” in Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era (New York: Routledge, 2004):
872-73.
2003 “Greece, Relations with,” in Dictionary of American History, Brooks D. Simpson, ed.
(New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
Also available at http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2 - 3401801790.html
2000 “Hellenism and Neohellenism in the Greek Tradition,” in Graham Speake, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 726-728.
2000 “Hellenism as Seen through the Eyes of Visiting Artists” in Graham Speake, ed.,
Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 723-726.
2000 “Ottoman Period (Tourkokratia)” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and
the Hellenic Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 1212-1215.
2000 “Armatoloi” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 169-170.
2000 “Ali Pasha of Ioannina” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic
Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 57-58.
2000 “Ioannina” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 816-818.
2000 “Janissaries” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 835-836.
2000 “Mar Saba Monastery” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic
Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 999.
2000 “Jerusalem” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 838-839.
2000 “Antisemitism” in Graham Speake, ed., Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic
Tradition (London: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000): 98-99.
ASSOCIATE EDITIONS:
2010 Associate Editor, Why Read Kazantzakis in the 21st Century? (Peter Bien, editor, with
Katherine Fleming.) Special volume, Journal of Modern Greek Studies.
Supplement to Vol. 28, No. 1 (May, 2010). (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010.)
BOOK REVIEWS:
[2016] Sheila Lecoeur, Mussolini’s Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II (London, I.B. Tauris, [2009] 2015), in European History Quarterly. [forthcoming]
[2016] Theodore Zervas, The Making of a Modern Greek Identity: Education, Nationalism, and the Teaching of a Greek National Past (New York, East European Monographs, 2012), in European History Quarterly. [forthcoming]
2014 Corry Guttstadt, Turkey, the Jews, and the Holocaust (New York: Cambridge University
Press, 2009), in American Historical Review, Vol. 119, No. 5 (December, 2014): 1823-1824.
2014 Ayse Ozil, Orthodox Christians in the Late Ottoman Empire: A Study of Communal Relations in Anatolia (London: Routledge, 2013), in International Journal of Turkish Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1/2: 125-128.
2014 Berna Pekesen, Nationalismus, Türkisierung und das Ende der jüdischen Gemeinden in
Thrakien 1918 - 1942. Munich: R. Oldenbourg Verlag, 2012. For Slavic Review, Vol. 73, No. 3 (Fall, 2014): 669-670.
2013 Olga Borovaya, Modern Ladino Culture: Press, Belles Lettres, and Theater in the Late
Ottoman Empire (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012), in Slavic Review, Vol. 72, No. 2 (Summer, 2013): 389-390.
2012 Tijana Krstic, Contested Conversions to Islam. Narratives of Religious Change in the
Early Modern Ottoman Empire (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2011), in
Slavic Review, Vol. 71, No. 3: 669.
2011 Steven Bowman, The Agony of the Greek Jews, 1940 - 1945 (Stanford: Stanford
University Press, 2009), in Shofar, Vol. 29, No. 2 (Winter, 2011): 209-210.
2009 Umut Özkirimli and Spyros A. Sofos, Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and
Turkey (New York: Columbia University Press, 2008), in Journal of Modern
History, Vol. 81, No. 4 (December, 2009): 101 -1013.
2008 Mary Roberts, Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel
Literature (Durham: Duke University Press, 2007), in Journal of Colonialism
and Colonial History, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Fall, 2008): 3 MS PP.
2007 Fariba Zarinebaf, John Bennet, and Jack L. Davis, An Historical and Economic
Geography of Ottoman Greece: Southwest Morea in the Eighteenth Century
(Athens, Greece: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005), in
Middle East Studies Association Bulletin, Vol. XLI, No. 1 (June, 2007): 54-56.
2007 Penelope Papailias, Genres of Recollection. Archival Poetics and Modern Greece (New
York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), in American Historical Review, February, 2007: 160-161.
2006 Violetta Hionidou, Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941–1944 (Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2006), in History: Reviews of New Books, 22 June, 2006: 127.
2005 Jonathan Kirsch, God Against the Gods. The History of the War between Monotheism
and Polytheism (New York: Penguin, 2005 [2004]), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 33, No. 4 (Summer, 2005): 131.
2005 Jon V. Kofas, Under the Eagle’s Claw: Exceptionalism in Postwar U.S.-Greek Relations
(Westport: Praeger, 2003), in Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 120, No. 1 (Spring, 2005): 169-170.
2004 Richard Clogg, A Concise History of Greece (second edition). (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2002), in Ancient History Bulletin, Vol. 18, Nos 3 & 4 (2004):
191-192.
2004 Leon Sciaky, Farewell to Salonica: City at the Crossroads (Philadelphia: Paul Dry
Books, 2003), in Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. 30.1 (2004): 143-145.
2004 Maria Todorova, ed., Balkan Identities. Nation and Memory (London: Hurst and Co.,
2004), in Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Vol. 5, No. 2
(Autumn/Winter, 2003/2004): 190-193.
2003 Richard Clogg, ed. and trans., Greece 1940-1949: Occupation, Resistance, Civil War. A
Documentary History. (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), in History:
Reviews of New Books, Vol. 31, No. 3 (Spring 2003): 115-116.
2003 Dušan Bjelić and Obrad Savić, eds., Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and
Fragmentation (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2002), in Slavic Review, No. 3
(Fall, 2003): 597.
2003 Thomas W. Gallant, Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British
Mediterranean (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002), in
History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Fall 2003): 73-74.
2003 John Warwick Montgomery, The Repression of Evangelism in Greece: European
Litigation vis -à-vis a Closed Religious Establishment (Lanham, MD: University
Press of America, 2001), in Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2
(October 2003): 287-289.
2003 Paulina Nasioutzik, Amerikanika oramata sti smyrni ton 19o aiona: H synantisi tis
anglosaxonikis skepsis me tin elliniki [19th-century American visions in Smyrna:
the encounter of Anglosaxon and Greek thought], in Journal of Modern Greek
Studies, Vol. 21, No. 2 (October 2003): 287-289.
2002 Molly Greene, A Shared World: Muslims and Christians in the Early Modern
Mediterranean (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000), in American
Historical Review, Vol. 107, No. 1 (February 2002): 161-162.
2002 Leila Fawaz and C.A. Bayly, eds., Modernity and Culture: From the Mediterranean to
the Indian Ocean (New York: Columbia University Press, 2002), in
“Greekworks” (www.greekworks.com), 11/15/02.
2002 Kemal Karpat, Reconstructing Identity, State, Faith, and Community in the Late Ottoman
Empire (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), in History: Reviews of New
Books, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Spring 2002): 91-92 (Feature Review).
2001 Nora Berend, At the Gate of Christendom: Jews, Muslims and “Pagans” in Medieval
Hungary, c. 100 -c.1300 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), in
History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Fall 2001): 29.
2001 Stratos E. Constantinides, ed., Greece in Modern Times: An Annotated Bibliography of
Works Published in English in Twenty -Two Academic Disciplines during the
Twentieth Century (Lanham, MD: The Scarecrow Press, 2000), in Byzantine and
Modern Greek Studies, 25 (2001): 249-250.
2001 Justin McCarthy, The Ottoman Peoples and the End of Empire (Oxford: Arnold/Oxford,
2001), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 5 (Fall 2001): 34.
2001 Donald Quataert, The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2000), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 3 (Spring 2001): 129.
2001 Peter Van der Veer and Hartmut Lehmann, eds., Nation and Religion: Perspectives on
Europe and Asia (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999), in American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences, Vol. 18:4 (Fall, 2001): 163-167.
2001 Paul White, Primitive Rebels or Revolutionary Modernizers? The Kurdish National
Movement in Turkey (London: Zed Books, 2000), in History: Reviews of New Books, Vol. 29, No. 4 (Summer 2001): 176-177.
2000 Meropi Anastassiadou, Salonique, 1830-1912: Une ville Ottomane à l’âge des Réformes
(Leiden: Brill, 1998), in Bulletin of the Royal Institute of Interfaith Studies, Vol.
2, No. 2 (Autumn 2000): 173-176.
2000 John Koliopoulos, Plundered Loyalties: Axis occupation and civil strife in Greek West
Macedonia, 1941-1949 (New York: NYU Press, 1999), in Times Literary Supplement, February 11, 2000, No. 5054.
1999 Iain Macleod Higgins, Writing East: The “Travels” of Sir John Mandeville (Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997), in Journal of Early Modern History,
3,4 (1999): 397-399.
1997 Michael H. Jameson, Curtis N. Runnels, and Tjeed H. van Andel, eds., A Greek
Countryside: The Southern Argolid from Prehistory to the Present Day (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1995), In Ancient History Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1997): 140-141.
1997 Curtis N. Runnels, Daniel J. Pullen, and Susan Langdon, eds., Artifact and Assemblage:
The Finds From A Regional Survey of the Southern Argolid, Greece, (Stanford:
Stanford University Press, 1995), In Ancient History Bulletin, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1997): 140-141.
1996 - 1997 Joseph Matthews, Shades of Resistance (Berkeley: Headlands Press, 1996), in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Vol. 12/13 (1996/1997): 647-648.
1996 - 1997 Mark Mazower, Inside Hitler’s Greece: The Experience of Occupation, 1941-44 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1993), in Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Vol. 12/13 (1996/1997): 641-642.
1996 Michael Angold, Church and Society in Byzantium under the Comneni 1081 - 1261
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995), in Religion, Vol. 26, No. 4
(1996): 398-399.
1996 Stefano Bianchini, Sarajevo le radici dell’odio: Identità e destino dei popoli balcanici
(Rome: Editrice Internazionale, 1993), in South East European Monitor, Vol. III, No. 1 (1996): 83-84.
1996 Tone Bringa, Being Muslim the Bosnian Way: Identity and Community in a Central
Bosnian Village (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), in South East European Monitor, Vol. III, No. 3 (1996): 66-67.
1996 Piero Camporesi, Juice of Life: The Symbolic and Magic Significance of Blood. Robert
Barr, trans. (New York: Continuum, 1995), in In These Times, May 27, 1996: 34-35.
1996 Loring Danforth, The Macedonian Conflict: Ethnic Nationalism in a Transnational
World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), in South East European
Monitor, Vol. III, No. 2 (1996): 73-74.
1996 Laurie Kain Hart, Time, Religion, and Social Experience in Rural Greece (Lanham, MD:
Rowman and Littlefield, 1992), in The Journal of Religion, Vol. 76, No. 1, (January 1996): 162-163.
1996 Valerie J. Hoffman, Sufism, Mystics, and Saints in Modern Egypt (Columbia, SC:
University of South Carolina Press), in Religion, Vol. 26, No. 4 (1996): 386-387.
1996 Ephrem Lash, ed. And trans., On the Life of Christ: Kontakia (San Francisco: Harper
Collins, 1995), in South East European Monitor.
1995 Ronald G. Roberson, The Eastern Christian Churches: A Brief Survey (Rome: Edizioni
“Orientalia Christiana”/Pontifical Institute for Oriental Studies, 1990), in
Macedonian Studies.
1995 Jill Dubisch, In a Different Place: Pilgrimage, Gender, and Politics at a Greek Island
Shrine (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995), in South East European
Monitor.
1995 Allucquere Rosanne Stone, The War of Desire and Technology at the Close of the
Mechanical Age (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1995), in In These Times, September 18, 1995: 38-39.
1995 Janet Wolff, Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism (New Haven: Yale University
Press, 1995), in In These Times, September 18, 1995: 38-39.
1994 Mircea Eliade, Bengal Nights and Maitreyi Devi, It Does Not Die (both Chicago:
University of Chicago Press, 1994), in The Nation, Oct. 10, 1994: 390-393.
1993 Charles Stewart, Demons and the Devil: Moral Imagination in Modern Greek Culture
(Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1991), in The Journal of Religion, Vol.
73, No. 1 (1993): 142-143.
INTERVIEWS:
2016 CONSULTANT/INTERVIEWEE Athens Rising: a 5-part documentary series on the history of Athens. Arte Television, Europe. 2/24/2016
2015 INTERVIEW 360 Moires [360 degrees], “Ο Ελληνισμός της Αμερικής” [Hellenism in America] Alpha Television, Greece. 6/2015
2014 PROFILE 360 Moires [360 degrees], “Κάθριν Φλέμινγκ” [Katherine Fleming]
Alpha Television, Greece. 6/2014
2011 INTERVIEW for Bystanders & Standing By: Εκτός Ιστορίας [Ouside of History],
documentary by Periklis Kortsaris and Fofo Terzidou, 11/20/2010
2010 INTERVIEW for Les Juifs de Salonique et de la Grèce, documentary by Ioannis
Koutizis, 11/06/2010
2009 INTERVIEW on Greece, a Jewish History, podcast for “Books and Authors in a Pod”
at Podularity.com, uploaded 5/22/2009
2008 INTERVIEW [“They called Salonika the Jerusalem of the Balkans”], in Athens
newspaper Kathimerini, 3/30/2008: front page, Arts & Culture
MISCELLANY:
Board of Advisors, The Education of Historians in the Twenty - First Century, Thomas
Bender, Philip M. Katz, and Colin Palmer, eds. (Illinois: 2004)
Contributor, greekworks.com, 2003 - 2006
Contributor, Los Angeles Reader, 1995 - 1998
Columnist, Indian Review of Books (Delhi, India), 1995 - 1996
Book Reviewer, Riverside Press Enterprise, 1990 - 1992
WORK IN PROGRESS:
Greece’s German Queen (book)
Herzl at the Acropolis. Greece, Israel, and the Limits of the Nation (article)
HONORS & AWARDS:
2010 Prix Alberto Benveniste (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2009 National Jewish Book Award (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2009 The Runciman Award (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2009 Honorable Mention, Edmund Keeley Book Prize (for Greece – A Jewish History)
2008 - 2009 Appointee, UK/US Study Group on Higher Education in a Global Environment
2006 - 2007 Gerda Henkel Stiftung (Düsseldorf) Research Scholarship
2005 - 2006 New York University Research Challenge Fund Grant
2003 - 2005 Humanities Council Workshop Grant (co - recipient)
2002 - 2003 Stephen Charney Vladeck Fellow, Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service
2001 Goddard Fellowship (fall 2001)
2000 - 2014 NYU Society of Fellows
2000 - 2001 Remarque Institute Faculty Fellowship
1999 - 2000 Golden Dozen Teaching Award, NYU
1999 - 2000 International Center for Advanced Studies Faculty Fellowship (Project on Cities and Urban Knowledge)
1993 - 1995 Mellon Research Fellowship
1991 - 1993 University of California Regents Fellowship
1991 - 1993 F.L.A.S./Title VI Award, Turkish Language
1988 - 1990 Fellowship, University of Chicago Divinity School
1987 Caroline Gallup Reed Prize in Religion, Barnard College, Columbia University
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY (selected):
2015 PANEL MODERATOR, “Leaders and Legends: Biography and Hagiography in Israel Studies,” at Israel Institute Annual Conference, The Harmonie Club, New York, NY, 10/26/15
2015 TALK, “The Greece-Europe Crisis: End of the Road or a Turning Point?” Roundtable at
The Association for the Study of Nationalities, 2015 World Convention, Columbia University, New York, NY, 4/23/15
2015 CHAIR, “Economics after the Crash: A Discipline in Need of Renewal?” at the
Scandinavia House, New York City, NY, 3/15/15
2015 TALK, “Glykia mou Saloniki: Memories of Greece,” at Greek Trade Office, Consulate
General of Greece, Holocaust Remembrance Day of the Greek Jewry (Series), New York City, NY, 2/3/15
2015 PANEL CHAIR, “Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Rural Greece,” at
American Historical Association, New York City, NY, 1/4/15
2014 TALK, “«'Οχι»: Le non grec à l’austérité,” at Conference, “Non!” Centre de civilization
française NYU Paris, Paris, France, 11/14/2014
2014 TALK, “The Role of Research in Higher Education,” Invited Lecture, NYU London,
London, UK, 12/4/2014
2014 LECTURE, “The Role of Education in Reforming a Society,” at Conference, “Education
Innovation and Entrepreneurship,” American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 5/14/2014
2014 KEYNOTE, at Conference, “Women on Leadership: 24/7,” Sector of Women Managers
and Entrepreneurs and the Hellenic Management Association, Acropolis
Museum, Athens, Greece, 5/13/2014
2013 LECTURE, “Small States, Big Dreams. Herzl at the Acropolis,” at Brown University,
12/4/2013
2013 LECTURE, “Ali Pascha and His Influence on the Greek War of Independence,” at Holy
Trinity Cathedral Center, Greek Independence Day Series, 3/25/2014
2013 LECTURE, “Herzl at the Acropolis,” at Vanderbilt University Jewish Studies,
10/24/2013
2013 LECTURE, “Small States, Big Dreams: Herzl at the Acropolis,” at Johns Hopkins
University, 10/4/13
2013 KEYNOTE, “How an Economic Perspective Changes Historical Interpretation: The Don
Pacifico Affair, 1850,” at ICABE (International Conference on Applied
Business & Economics), CUNY/John Jay College of Criminal Justice, NYC,
10/2/2013
2013 TALK, “Whose Subject? The Don Pacifico Affair, 1850,” at Workshop, “Reimagining
Democracy in the Mediterranean, 1750-1860,” at Columbia University, 9/13/2013
2013 DISCUSSANT, “Scholars Weighing in as Public Intellectuals Weighing in on History
and Politics in East Central Europe,” at Association for the Study of Nationalities, Columbia University, 4/19/2013
2013 LECTURE, “Neither Jew Nor Greek: Greek Jews after the war,” the 2013 Catharine
Pelican Memorial Lecture at the University of Missouri St. Louis, 3/13/2013
2012 LECTURE, “Herzl at the Acropolis-Small States and the Limits of National Longing,”
Invited Lecture at Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International
Studies, 4/30/2012
2011 TALK, “Herzl at the Acropolis – or – Big Histories, Small States,” Invited Lecture at
Princeton University’s Department of Near Eastern Studies, 10/10/2011
2011 PAPER, “Mediterranean: the Limits of Mediterraneanism and Comparativism,” at the
Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 2012, New York, 2/27/2012
2011 DISCUSSANT, “Memory Rituals,” at Performing Memory in the Ancient World – A
Dialogue Between Past and Present, New York, 12/1/2011
2011 PAPER, “Nationalism and the Politics of Memory in Greece,” at CNRS/NYU “UMI”
Conference, In The Tracks of Memory, New York, 11/18/2011
2011 PAPER, “Greek Jews before and after World War II,” at the University of
Munich, 6/16/2011
2011 TALK, “Juifs de Grece,” at the Société des études juives, Ecole des Chartes, Paris,
5/23/2011
2011 PAPER, “Burning Judas: Transnationalism and anti-Semitism in 19th-century Greece,” at
the University of Volos, 2/16/2011
2010 TALK, “Rôle privilégié de l’éducation,” at Colloquium, Albert Gallatin (1761-
1849), un Genevois au service des Etats-Unis d’Amérique, Paris, 9/30/2010
2010 TALK, “Changing Identities in Post-Ottoman Salonika,” at the Zentrum Moderner
Orient Ottoman Urban Studies Seminar, Berlin, 6/14/2010
2010 LECTURE, “Neither Jew nor Greek? Greek Jews after the War,” at King’s College,
London, 5/13/2010
2009 LECTURE, “Herzl at the Acropolis – or – Big Histories, Small States: Greece,Israel, and
the Limits of the Nation,” Invited Lecture at the Institute for Historical Research (IHR), London, 11/11/2009
2009 TALK, “Leaving Greece and Becoming Greek: Greek Jewish Identity in Auschwitz and
Israel,” at Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths College, London, 11/11/2009
2009 TALK, “Leaving Greece and Becoming Greek: Greek Jewish Identity in Auschwitz and
Israel,” at Group for the Study of the History of the Jews of Greece, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece, 11/6/2009
2009 TALK, “les migrations judéo-espagnoles aux Etats-Unis (XIXe-XXe siècles)” at the
Cinquième Festivale des Cultures Juives, “l'Amérique au coeur de Paris,” Paris, 6/17/2009
2009 TALK, “Trying to Find Home After the War: Greek Jews, 1944-1955,” Remarque
Institute La Pietra Seminar Series, Florence, Italy, 4/22/2009
2009 PANELIST, Presentation du livre “Il Mare,” di Paolo Frascani, the Sorbonne, Paris,
3/1/3/2009
2009 PANELIST, “Etats-Unis 2009-2013: une nouvelle destinée ?,” Ecole Normale
Supérieure, Paris, 1/7/2009
2008 INVITED PARTICIPANT, American Council on Education (ACE), US/UK leadership
program, Washington, D.C., 7/7 - 7/9/2008
2008 PANELIST, Round Table, “Les initiatives developpées dans le secteur public,” at
Congrès National BPW de France, (“L’Economie, facteur d’intégration des femmes?”), Levallois-Perret, France, 6/7/2008
2008 DISCUSSANT, Seminar, “Histoires multiples d’une conversion collective au
judaisme dans l’Italie meridionale du XXe siècle: le cas du village de San
Nicandro.,” avec John Davis et Gilles Pecout, la Sorbonne, Paris, 5/30/2008
2008 PANEL MODERATOR, “Les Francais et Garibaldi: en dire du bien et du mal,” at
colloque, “Garibaldi et les Garibaldiens en France: Images, Héritages et Reseaux
du XIXe au XXIe siècle,” Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 2/15/2008
2008 TALK, ““From Greece to Palestine and Back Again: Greek Jews after World War II,” at
the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies, New York University,
1/25/08
2007 DISCUSSANT, “Center? Periphery?: Examples from Eastern Europe and the Caucasus,”
at conference, “Historical Continuities, Political Responsibilities: Unsettling Conceptual Blind-Spots in Ottoman and Turkish Studies,” at New York University and The Graduate Center, CUNY, 5/4/07
2007 PANEL MODERATOR, “Letters and the Law,” at Symposium, “A Mediterranean
Mirror: Catalan Law in an International Context,” at New York University, 4/27/07
2007 PARTICIPANT, Convention, “Professori Italiani d’America (USA e Canada) – Le
Scienze Umane e Sociali,” Washington DC, 4/13-4/14/07
2007 TALK, “L'historiographie nord americaine de la Mediterranée,” at Ecole
Normale Supérieure, Paris, 4/5/07
2007 TALK, “Les sources juives comme sources Ottomanes: deux examples (Crète 16ème
siècle, Serbie 19ème siècle), at L’Institut d’histoire moderne et contemporaine, Paris, 4/2/07
2007 TALK, “Methode et categorie: qu’est-ce que c’est qu’un ‘Grec Juif’?” at
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 3/24/07
2007 TALK, “Ali Pasha et la probleme historiographique des provinces Ottomanes,” at
“Journee des Etudes Turques, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 3/23/07
2007 DISCUSSANT, “Reform to the Letter? Provincializing the Ottoman Tanzimat in 19th-
Century Cyprus,” paper given by Marc Aymes (EHESS, Paris), at the NYU Kevorkian Center, 3/05/07
2007 HOST, Conference, “A Kazantzakis Celebration,” sponsored by the Hellenic Foundation
for Culture, Athens, at New York University, 3/3/06
2007 ORGANIZER, Symposium/Workshop, “War, Atrocity, Terror: Europe Since 1900,” co -
sponsored by the Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, NYU and the Yale University European Studies Council, 2/22 - 2/23/07
2006 TALK, “The Messianic Sultan: Mediterranean Rabbis Interpret Ottoman History,” at
New York University Ottoman history series, 12/14/06
2006 TALK, “The Messianic Sultan: Mediterranean Rabbis Interpret Ottoman History,” at
Columbia University Society of Fellows, 10/26/06
2006 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, NYU Graduate School of Arts and Science Orientation. “On
Being a Scholar: The Graduate School Experience,” 9/8/06
2006 DISCUSSANT, The Recent Work of Speros Vryonis Jr. The 1955 Pogrom in Istanbul,
at Workshop for Armenian/Turkish Studies annual meeting, New York, 5/16/06
2006 PAPER, “Greek Jews after Greece: The Post-War Greek-Jewish Diaspora,” at
conference, Conflicting Memories and European Integration, NYU, 4/20-4/21/06
2006 TALK, “From Greece to Palestine and Back Again: Greek Jews after World War II,” at
Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, NYU, 2/8/06
2006 ORGANIZER, Symposium/Workshop, “Catalonia and Beyond: National and Regional
Identities and the New Europe,” co-sponsored by the Institut Ramon Llull and
the Remarque Institute, NYU, 2/3/06
2005 PANEL CHAIR, “Building on the Past: the European Doctorate in the Social History of
Europe and the Mediterranean, Marie Curie Fellows Seminar,” at the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, 12/15-12/17/02
2005 TALK, “The Barcelona Process in Historical Perspective,” at the Weissman Center for
International Business, sponsored by the Delegation of the European
Commission to the United Nations, New York, 12/5/05
2005 TALK, “The Nationalized ‘Greek Jew’: From Auschwitz-Birkenau to Israel/Palestine,”
at Department of History, Indiana University, 12/2/05
2005 PANELIST, “How to Get Tenure at NYU,” event organized by NYU Women’s Faculty
Caucus, 11/18/05
2005 TALK, “How Far East does Europe Go?: Greece, Turkey, and the EU” at conference,
“Europe and its Others in the Mirror of Transatlantic Relations,” Institute for the
Study of Europe, Columbia University, 11/11/05
2005 LECTURE, “From Greece to Palestine and back Again: Greek Jews Post-War,” invited
lecture at Brown University, 11/02/05
2005 TALK, “Modern Greece: An Overview,” at Fulbright-Hays (Greece/Cyprus) Pre-
Departure Orientation, New York University, 5/27/05
2005 PAPER, “The Jews of Salonica,” at International Conference on Religion, Identity, and
Empire, European Studies Council/Yale Center for International and Area Studies, 4/17/05
2005 PAPER, “The Nationalized ‘Greek Jew,’” European Studies Workshop, NYU, 3/29/05
2005 TALK, “The Gospel Riots, 1901,” CAS Scholars’ Lecture Series, NYU, 3/28/05
2004 PANEL CHAIR, “After Enlightenment,” A Symposium in Honor of Jerrold Seigel,
Nice, France, 4/22/04
2004 TALK, “The Center of Europe? Greece, the Balkans, and European History,” University
of Michigan Center for Russian and European Studies Southeast Europe group,
2/4/04
2003 TALK, “Greek Spirits in Greek Bodies: Metaxas and the Jews,” at the Remarque
Institute, NYU, 11/14/03
2003 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS & PANEL CHAIR, Partisan Histories: The
Use and Misuse of the Past in Modern Politics, Remarque Institute, NYU, 10/24 - 25/03
2003 INTERVIEW, “Will and Freedom in Western History,” WNYU 89.1, 10/30/03
2003 DISCUSSANT, “Nationalism and Memory in Turkish History: the Armenian Massacres
of 1915,” paper presented by Fatma Müge Göçek (University of Michigan), at
the NYU Kevorkian Center, 10/27/03
2003 PANEL CHAIR, “Reading the Past: New Views, Topics, and Perspectives,” at the
Modern Greek Studies Association biannual symposium, Toronto, 10/18/03
2003 TALK, “Greece’s Romaniote Communities, 1880-1930,” at the Center for Jewish
History/American Sephardi Federation, New York, 10/16/03
2003 PANEL MODERATOR, “The United States and the Middle East,” at NYU Graduate
School of Arts and Science Dean’s Day, 4/5/03
2003 TALK, “Escaping Plato’s Cave: Education and Why You Need It,” at NYU College of
Arts and Science Accepted Students’ Day, 3/28/03
2003 KEYNOTE SPEAKER, Modern Europeanists’ Luncheon, at the annual meeting of the
American Historical Association, 1/4/03
2002 PANELIST, “Understanding Religious Violence,” at New York University’s Installation
of the 15th President, 9/26/02
2002 TALK, “Of Bakeries and Synagogues: Jewish Sacred Spaces in Early Modern Crete,” at
Symposium, “A Saint Belongs to the Whole World”: Social and Cultural Uses of Sacred Space in the Orthodox and Ottoman Worlds, Birkbeck College, University of London, 5/8/02
2002 TALK, “Constantinople: Christendom to Islam,” at “Saving the City”: War, Disaster,
and Recovery in the Ancient World, The 2002 Rose-Marie Lewent Conference
on Ancient Studies, NYU, 4/12/02
2002 PAPER, “The Language of Orthodoxy: Hellenism and the Gospel Riots of 1901,” at
Modern Greece in International Context, a Symposium,” Department of History,
York University, Toronto, 3/22/02
2001 TALK, “History and Social Construction,” a response to Paul Boghossian, “What is
Social Construction?” at the NYU Society of Fellows, 12/5/01
2001 PANEL CHAIR, “Greek Nationalism, Ethnicity, and Memory,” at the Modern Greek
Studies Association biannual symposium, Washington, D.C., 10/27/01
2001 PAPER, “Jewish Intellectual Trends in the Early Modern Balkans,” at the University of
Birmingham Centre for Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies
conference, Greece and the Balkans: Cultural Encounters since the
Enlightenment, 6/30/2001
2001 PAPER, “Community and Identity in the Ottoman Jewish Imagination, 16th-19th
Centuries” at Princeton Hellenic Studies Workshop, Before Nationalism: Religion and Identity in the Orthodox and Ottoman Worlds, 5/11/2001
2001 PAPER, “Becoming European: Athens, Constantinople, and the Gospel Riots of 1901,”
at the Fordham University European Studies Colloquium, 4/5/2001
2001 TALK, “The Ottoman Empire: An Overview,” at Joint HHA/Turkish Society, NYU,
lecture series, Demystifying Cultural Boundaries: Dismantling the Greek-Turkish Conflict in the post-Byzantine Era, 3/26/2001
2001 TALK, “What Makes Jewish History Jewish? Two Early Modern Accounts of the Rise
of the Ottomans,” at The Remarque Institute, NYU, 2/23/2001
2000 RESPONDENT, “Contraband, Cooperation, and Competition in the Straits of Melaka
during the Late Nineteenth Century,” paper presented by Professor Eric
Tagliacozzo (Cornell) at the NYU Kevorkian Center Research Workshop,
Creolization in the Indian Ocean, 12/5/2000
2000 RESPONDENT, “Defining the ‘National Historic Mission’ of Izmir, 19th Century-
1919,” paper presented by Professor Athanasia Anagnostopoulou (University of
Cyprus), visiting scholar sponsored through NYU’s International Visitors
Program, Kevorkian Center, NYU, 11/27/2000
2000 INVITED PARTICIPANT, National Council on Education in the Disciplines/American
Historical Association Joint Workshop, History in the Liberal Arts Education,
Washington, D.C., 11/18-11/19/2000
2000 LECTURE, “The Language of Orthodoxy: Hellenism in the Modern Period,” Loyola
Marymount University (Los Angeles), invited lecture in lecture series, Hellenism, 11/15/2000
2000 TALK, “How to be an Obscurantist,” at the History of Women and Gender Breakfast
Series, NYU, 5/3/2000
2000 LECTURE, “Greek Orthodoxy and the Language of Hellenism,” at the Sunday Evening
Seminar, Wilmington, Delaware, 5/7/2000
1999 LECTURE, “The Balkan Backdrop to David Edgar’s Pentecost,” at the Drama
Department, NYU, 12/11/99
1999 PAPER, “Athens as Ottoman Domain,” at the annual conference of the Middle Eastern
Studies Association, Washington, DC, 11/99
1999 PAPER, “Metaphoric Turks: the Communists and the Greek Civil War,” at the annual
conference of The Modern Greek Studies Association, Princeton, New Jersey,
11/99
1999 PAPER, “Athens, Constantinople, and the Gospel Riots of 1901: Urban Paradigms and
Modern Greek National Identity,” at the International Center for Advanced Studies (ICAS), NYU, 10/22/99
1999 PAPER, “Martyrdom and Greek Liberation: The Strange Case of Kyra Phrosine (1801),”
at Princeton University, Program in Hellenic Studies, Modern Greek Seminar
Series, 4/28/99
1999 PANEL PARTICIPANT, Center for European Studies, New York University,
discussion of Costa-Gavras’ “Z,” Cantor Film Center, 2/4/99
1998 PAPER, “Memory, Metaphor, and Greek National Identity,” at CUNY Graduate
Center’s Seminar on the Modern Greek State, NY, NY, 11/11/98
1998 PANELIST, Round Table Discussion at the Annual Meeting of the Center for Exilic
Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 10/6/98
1996 PAPER, “The Aegean World of Ali Pasha,” at Aegean Crossroads, a conference
organized by the Basil P. Caloyeras Center for Hellenic Studies at Loyola
Marymount University, LA, CA, 11/96
1996 PAPER, “Sultan Fatih Mehmet: A Contemporary Muslim Portrayal of the Fall of
Constantinople, 1453,” at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies
Association, Providence, RI, 11/96
1996 PAPER, “Greek Orientalisms in the 19th Century,” at Deep Springs College, 10/96
1993 PAPER, “Gender and Turkish Reform Movements,” at Nationalism, a conference
organized by the Department of History, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA,
1/93
1992 PAPER, “Ziya Gokalp’s Reformed Woman,” at the annual conference of the Middle East
Studies Association, Portland, OR, 10/92
SERVICE & ADMINISTRATION:
NYU DEPARTMENTAL:
2011 - 2012 Chair, tenure review committee, Kostis Smyrlis (History/Hellenic Studies)
2009 - present Hellenic Studies Advisory Board, FAS
2009 - 2010 Chair, clinical appointment review committee, Liana Theodoratou (Hellenic Studies)
2008 - 2009 Chair, third-year review committee, Kostis Smyrlis (History/Hellenic Studies)
2007 - 2008 Tenure review committee, John Shovlin (History)
2007 - 2011 MA Advisor, NYU in France
2006 - 2007 Chair, third-year review committee, Karl Appuhn (History)
2006 - 2008 German Department Associate Professor Search Committee (German)
2005 - 2009 Director, A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies
2005 - 2006 Chair, Byzantine History Search Committee (History/Hellenic Studies)
2005 - 2006 Honors Program Advisor (History)
2005 - 2006 Armenian Studies ad-hoc committee (History)
2005 - 2006 Third-year review Committee, Chris Otter (History)
2003 - 2005 Planning and Advisory Committee (History)
2004 - 2005 Ottoman History Search Committee (Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies/History)
2000 - 2005 Director of Graduate Study (Hellenic Studies)
2000 - 2005 Bobst Library Departmental Liaison (History)
2004 - 2005 Modern East European History Search Committee (History)
2003 - 2004 Graduate Admissions & Fellowships Committee (History)
2003 - 2004 Eighteenth Century European History Search Committee (History)
2002 - 2003 Modern European History Search Committee (History)
2001 - 2002 Chair, Graduate Admissions & Fellowships Committee (History)
2000 - 2002 Departmental Steering Committee (History)
2000 - 2001 Departmental Finance Committee (History)
1999 - 2000 Modern European History Search Committee (History)
1999 - 2001 Director of Undergraduate Study (Hellenic Studies)
1998 - 1999 African History Search Committee (History)
1998 - 1999 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (History)
1998 - 1999 Undergraduate Curriculum Committee (Hellenic Studies)
NYU UNIVERSITY & COLLEGE:
2011 - 2012 Global Site Staffing and Support Taskforce
2010 - present President’s Senior Team
2010 - 2012 Global Framework Team Taskforce
2010 - 2013 Global Sites Core / Foley committee
2010 - present Director, Remarque Institute
2007 - 2010 Global Team
2007 - 2010 Director, Remarque Institute in Europe
2005 - present Provost’s Advisory Group
2005 - present University Leadership Team
2005 - 2009 Director, A.S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies
2004 - 2010 Associate Director, Remarque Institute
2004 - 2010 Advisory Board, Remarque Institute
2006 - 2007 GSAS Honors and Awards Committee
2005 - 2007 FAS Committee on Graduate Curriculum (elected)
2005 - 2007 Provost Fellow; Faculty Director, NYU-AUP partnership
2005 - 2007 Faculty Advisory Committee on Academic Priorities
2005 - 2007 Co-Director, Mediterranean Studies Group, New York University
2005 - 2007 DURF Selection Committee
2005 - 2006 GSAS/Steinhardt Collaboration on Teaching Foreign Languages Committee
2005 - 2006 Acton Fellowship selection committee
2005 - 2006 Editorial Board, NYU Audible Journal
2004 - 2005 NYU - in - Athens Planning Committee
2004 - 2005 Villa La Pietra Faculty Affinity Group
2004 - 2005 International Visitors Program Selection Committee
2003 - 2014 Bobst Library Faculty Collections Advisory Committee
2003 - 2014 Steering Committee, NYU Society of Fellows
2003 - 2005 Co - Director, Mediterranean Studies Humanities Council Workshop
2003 - 2005 F.A.S. European/Mediterranean Studies MA Advisory Committee
2003 - 2004 F.A.S Distinguished Teacher Award Selection Committee
2002 - 2007 Adviser, Gallatin School for Individualized Study
2002 - 2006 C.A.S. Faculty Phonathon
2002 - 2005 Steering Committee, Mediterranean Studies working group
2002 - 2003 C.A.S. Faculty Mentor Program for Freshman Advising
2002 - 2003 C.A.S. Dean’s Undergraduate Research Grant Selection Committee
2001 - present NYU Society of Fellows
2000 - 2002 F.A.S. Committee on Graduate Financial Aid (F.A.C.)
2000 - 2002 Bobst Library University Liaison Committee
2000 - 2002 C.A.S. Freshman Dialogue Planning Committee
2000 - 2001 G.S.A.S. Opportunity Fellowship Nominations Committee
NATIONAL:
2010 - 2011 Local Arrangements Committee, Modern Greek Studies Association
2009 Member, Modern Greek Studies Association Graduate Student Essay Prize Committee
2005 Chair, Modern Greek Studies Association Dissertation Prize Committee
2004 - 2005 Modern Greek Studies Association Graduate Studies Committee
2001 - 2003 Member, Advisory Committee to the American Historical Association’s Committee on
Graduate Education
2000 - 2003 Executive Board Member, Modern Greek Studies Association (elected)
2000 - 2002 Professional Associations Liaison of the Modern Greek Studies Association to the
Middle East Studies Association and American Academy of Religion
2001 Member, National Council on Education in the Disciplines/American Historical
Association Workshop, History in the Liberal Arts Education
2000 - 2001 Chair, Modern Greek Studies Association Administrative Oversight Committee
2000 - 2001 Modern Greek Studies Association Publicity and Membership Committee
INTERNATIONAL:
2012 - 2015 Scientific Committee, Centre for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, University of Siena
2011 - present Evaluator, National Hellenic Research Foundation
2010 - 2011 Advisor, Conseil Représentatif des Institutions juives de France (CRIF)
2009 - present External Advisory Board, Centre for the Study of the Balkans, Goldsmiths/University of
London
2008 - 2009 External Doctoral Examiner, Birkbeck College, University of London
2008 - 2009 UK/US Study Group on Higher Education in a Global Environment (deputy)
2007 - 2010 Scientific Advisory Committee, International Center for Hellenic Research (ICHR), Nice,
France
2005 - 2008 External Member, European Doctorate in the Social History of Europe and the Mediterranean Consortium
2005 - 2007 Advisory Board, SEEU (South East European University), Tetovo, Macedonia and SEE
University Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland
1999- present Delegate to Greek Cultural Ministry for the Modern Greek Studies Association
1996 - 1999 Book Review Editor, South East European Monitor (Vienna)
BOARD SERVICE:
2016 - present Board of Advisors, Greek Diaspora Fellowship Program, Stavros Niarchos Foundation and Institute of International Education (New York and Greece)
2013 - present President, Board of Trustees, University of Piraeus (Greece)
2008 - present Board of Advisors, Etz Hayyim Synagogue, Hania (Crete, Greece)
2003 - 2005 Board of Trustees, SEE University, Tetovo, Macedonia and SEE University Foundation
(Zurich, Switzerland)
OTHER PROFESSIONAL & SERVICE:
EXTERNAL DOCTORAL JURIST, University of Crete, Rethymnon
EXTERNAL DOCTORAL JURIST, EPHE – Sorbonne, Paris
EDITORIAL BOARD, American Historical Review
EDITORIAL PANEL, European History Quarterly
EDITORIAL BOARD, Journal of Modern Greek Studies
EDITORIAL BOARD, International Journal of Politics, Culture, & Society
EXTERNAL REVIEWER/Consultant, Nationalities Papers, American Journal of
Islamic Social Sciences, Slavic Review, European History Quarterly, Agricultural History, Esquire Magazine, Journal of Modern History, The Historian, Women’s World Magazine, Cambridge University Press, New York University Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Stanford University Press
PARTICIPANT, Study of New Scholars, Harvard Graduate School of Education/Ford
Foundation (2000)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER, GSAS Convocation, 9/8/2006
SPEAKER, GSAS Advisory Board Meeting, 10/13/2004
SPEAKER, CAS Recruitment/Admissions, Fall, 2003, 2004
PARTICIPANT, CAS Annual Faculty Phonathon (undergraduate recruitment), 2000—
MOCK INTERVIEWER, CAS, Rhodes, and Marshall Fellowships, 2000, 2001, 2003
HOODER, GSAS Graduation, 2001
SPONSOR, NYU International Visitors Program visitor (Dr. Athanasia
Anagnostopoulou, University of Cyprus), 2000 - 2001
DIRECTOR of GRADUATE STUDY, Hellenic Studies, 2000 - 2005
DIRECTOR of UNDERGRADUATE STUDY, Hellenic Studies, 1999
LECTURER, CAS Accepted Students Day, 2003, 2004
LECTURER, CAS Parents Day, 1999, 2000, 2002, 2003
CONTRIBUTOR, Humanities Insights, Office of the Dean for Humanities, NYU
CONSULTANT, Dictionary of the History of Ideas
MEMBER, Women’s Faculty Caucus
PARTICIPANT, CAS Scholars Lecture Series, 2004 - 05
COURSES TAUGHT/TEACHING RELATED:
1999 - 2000 recipient, NYU GOLDEN DOZEN TEACHING AWARD
The Mediterranean and South- - East European Region (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2011
Atelier d’histoire contemporaine: Du Danube a l’Adriatique -- Historiographie comparée
de l’Europe centrale et méridionale (ENS 2010, 2011) Atelier Méditerranée NYU - ENS : Les Américains, les Européens et la Méditerranée du
XVIIIe au XXe siècle (graduate) (ENS 2008 - 09; 2009 - 10)
Lire les mondes contemporains – atelier de la lecture de l’historiographie française et
étrangère sur le monde de la fin du XVIIIe s. au XXIe siècle (ENS 2007)
The Mediterranean in Historical Perspective (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2006
Conversations of the West: Middle Ages (NYU) – spring, 2006
Approaches to Historical Research and Writing (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2005
MA Pro-Seminar (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2004
Literature of the Field: Europe, 20th Century (graduate) (NYU) – spring, 2004
Literature of the Field: Cultural History (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2002
Participant, 3rd year Methods Seminar (graduate) (NYU) – fall, 2002
Literature of the Field: Europe, 19th Century (graduate) (NYU) – spring, 2002
The Balkans (NYU)—autumn, 2000
Greece and Western Europe, 1700-1900 (NYU)—autumn, 1999; autumn, 2002
Conversations of the West: Enlightenment (NYU)—autumn 1998, ’99, ’00; spring, 2002
Modern Greek History (NYU)—spring, 1999; spring, 2004
Nationalism in Greece and the Balkans (graduate) (NYU)—spring, 1999
The Eastern Question, 1774-1923 (NYU)—autumn, 1998
World History, 3500BCE-500 CE (UCLA)
World History, modern period (UCLA)
Methodology of Teaching World History (graduate) (UCLA)
Southeastern Europe, 1500-1918 (UCLA)
Southeastern Europe, 1918-present (UCLA)
Modern Balkans in Historical Perspective (Deep Springs College)
Introduction to New Testament Exegesis (Deep Springs College)
Intensive Introductory New Testament Greek (Deep Springs College)
Western Civilization, ancient period to the Renaissance (Loyola Marymount)
Western Civilization, the Renaissance to the modern period (Loyola Marymount)
Western Religious Traditions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam (UC Riverside)
Islam and the West (UC Riverside)
Introduction to Islam (UC Riverside)
History of the Middle East: Survey (as teaching assistant, UC Berkeley)
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
AMERICAN ACADEMY of RELIGION
AMERICAN HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION
ASSOCIATION FOR THE STUDY OF NATIONALITIES
MIDDLE EAST STUDIES ASSOCIATION
MODERN GREEK STUDIES ASSOCIATION
LANGUAGES:
ENGLISH, FRENCH, GREEK, HEBREW, ITALIAN, SPANISH, TURKISH
REFERENCES:
Administrative/Exective:
Monique Canto-Sperber, Directrice Émerite, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Tom Carew, Dean of the Faculty, New York University
Richard Foley, Vice Chancellor, Dean of the Faculty emeritus, New York University
David McLaughlin, Provost, New York University
John Sexton, President, New York University
Joseph Juliano, Vice Provost & Associate Vice Chancellor, New York University
Celeste Schenck, President, American University in Paris
Academic:
Dimitri Gondicas, Executive Director, Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
Antony Molho, Professor Emeritus, Brown University & European University Institute
David N. Myers, Chairman, Department of History, UCLA
Mark Mazower, Chairman, Department of History, Columbia University
Gilles Pécout, Chairman, Department of History, École Normale Supérieure, Paris
Larry Wolff, Director, Center for European & Mediterranean Studies, NYU