Hellenic Research Fellowship Program (HRFP)

Prof. Maria Kaliambou
Yale University
Project title: "The Book Culture of Greek Americans"

Dr. Theodora Patrona
Independent Scholar
Project title: "Greek-American Women's Writing in the First Half of the Twentieth Century" (PowerPoint Slide show with audio; with the presentation in Slide Show mode, click the speaker on each slide to play audio.)
Book: Return Narratives: Ethnic Space in Late-Twentieth-Century Greek American and Italian American Literature

Prof. Stavroula (Avra) Xepapadakou
University of Crete
Project title: "Voices, Musics and Echoes of Expatriate Greeks in the Demakopoulos Collection"

Mr. Stavros Stavridis
Independent Scholar
Project title: "The Greek Genocide: Pontus and Smyrna and the Resettlement of Asia Minor Refugees 1916-1925"

Dr. Anastasia Stefanidou
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Project title: "Writing the Greek American Life: Memoirs of Second Generation Immigrants"

Dr. Valerie McGuire
Postdoctoral Fellow
New York University & The Council of American Overseas Research Centers (CAORC)
Project title: "Fascism's Mediterranean Empire: Italian Occupation and Colonial Modernity in the Dodecanese Islands, 1912-47"
Book: Italy's Sea: Empire and Nation in the Mediterranean, 1895-1945

Dr. Ilias Chrissochoidis
WZB Berlin Social Science Center
Project title: "From Greek Immigrant to American Paragon: The Life and Achievements of Spyros P. Skouras (1893–1971)"

Prof. Aida Gasimova
Baku State University
Project Title: "Avenue of Beholding Divine Beauty from the Ephebe to Shahid-bazi: A Case Study of the Topos in Azeri Turkic Sufi Poetry"

Mr. András Kraft
Doctoral Candidate
Central European University
Project title: "Between the Imminent End and Eternity: On the Byzantine Conception of Time"
Dissertation (table of contents): “The Apocalyptic Horizon in Byzantium: Philosophy, Prophecy, and Politics during the Eleventh through Thirteenth Centuries”

Mr. Panayotis (Paddy) League
Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard University
Project title: "A Commonplace Book in Uncommon Times: The Orality-Literacy Continuum and Musical Transcription in Late Ottoman Mytilene"

Dr. Anna Kouremenos
Independent Scholar
Project title: “Selective Memory and National Identity: (Mis)perceptions of the Roman Period in Modern Greece"
Article: “Ρωμαιοκρατία ≠ Roman Occupation: (Mis)perceptions of the Roman Period in Greece” inGreece and Rome (vol. 66, no. 1, pp. 37-60)

Dr. Stefano Gulizia
Independent Scholar
Project title: “The Printer’s Wine-Dark Sea: Venetian Book Trading and the Greek Diaspora”

Prof. Maria Oikonomou
University of Vienna
Project title: “Transcribing Borders: Elements of a Literature of Migration”

Mr. Panos Koromvokis
Doctoral Candidate
Project title: “The Greek-Americans: Ideological Remittances and State-building Philanthropy”

Mr. Christopher Kinley
Doctoral Candidate, Ohio State University
Project Title: “Under Their Watchful Eyes: The Experience and Memory of War and Occupation in Epirus, 1912-1922”
Article: “The Balkan War in Epirus: Religious Identity and the Continuity of Conflict”

Prof. Rigas Raftopoulos
Università degli Studi di Roma 3
Project Title: “When Pericles Went to Greece from America, or How the U.S. Discovered Greek People and Resistance”

Ms. Angeliki Tsiotinou
Doctoral Candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Project Title: “Tracing the Ethnic Preservation Movement in Post-Civil Rights Greek-American Periodicals”

Prof. Eugenia Georges
Rice University
Project Title: “The Influence of the Truman Doctrine and U.S. Soft Power on the Development of Greek Biomedicine in the Aftermath of World War II”

Mr. Stavros Stavridis
Independent Scholar
Project Title: “Greece and the Resettlement of Asia Minor Refugees during the post-1923 Period”

Dr. Vassiliki Vassiloudi
Democritus University of Thrace
Project Title: “Revisiting Greek Childhood in Distress: The Views and Intervention of the Greek Americans in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s”

Dr. Aimee Genova
Independent Scholar
Project Title: “The Politics of Revolution: Cretan Archaeologists and Revolutionaries of the 1890s”

Mr. Dimitris Machlouta
Doctoral Student, McGill University
Project Title: “Organizing Resistance against Military Dictatorships: The Case of Greek Political Activism in North America and Europe (1967-1974)”

Dr. Athanasios Grammenos
Independent Scholar
Project Title: “Diasporas in International Relations: The Case of Greek Americans”

Ms. Ioanna Kipourou
Doctoral Candidate, University of Graz, Austria
Project Title: “'Mr. Greek' — The Making of a San Franciscan Civic Leader: A Memoir of Peter G. Boudoures (1893-1982)"

Dr. Theodora Patrona
Teaching Fellow, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Project Title: "Setting the Scene: The Obscure Greek-American Cultural Production of the Early Twentieth Century"

Prof. Fevronia Soumakis
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Queens College, CUNY
Project Title: “The Political and Social Activism of Katy Vlavianos and the Ladies Philoptochos Society”

Dr. Konstantina (Nadia) Georgiou
Independent Scholar, U.K.
Project Title: "Gatekeeping Networks and Patronage: The Role of Diasporic Greek Americans in the Promotion and Dissemination of Translated Modern Greek Literature"

Prof. Mary Ikoniadou
Senior Lecturer, Leeds Beckett University
Project Title: "Greek American Emigré Periodicals in the 1960s: Seeking Emigré Articulations on Greece’s Past, Present, and Future"

Mr. Panagiotis Karagkounis
Doctoral Candidate, University of Manchester
Project Title: "Forced Resettlement, Humanitarianism and the 'Logic of Development': The Greek Case and the Near East, 1920s-1950s"

Mr. Panos Koromvokis
Doctoral Candidate, Panteion University
Project Title: “Behind the Counter: Representations of the Greek-American Diner in 20th-Century Greek America”

Ms. Despoina Panagiotidou
Doctoral Candidate, Indiana University, Bloomington
Project Title: "Nationalizing Kalamatianós and Performing 'Greekness' in Modernist Art Music"

Mr. Thanasis Sotiriou
Doctoral Candidate, University of Crete
Project Title: "Byzantine Local Aristocrats and Turkish Conquerors in Asia Minor (1260-1330)"

Mr. Lukas Tsiptsios
Doctoral Candidate, University of Rouen Normandie and McGill University
Project Title: "Imperial Ambition, Colonial Reality: Projects of a Greek Liberal Elite at the Beginning of the 20th Century"

Mr. Tomos Evans
Doctoral Candidate, University of Birmingham, UK
Project Title: "Greek Antiquity and Advocating Greek Independence in Early Modern Europe"

Dr. Stavroula Kiritsi
Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Project Title: "Dimitrios Moschos’ Neaira: A Greek ‘New Comedy’ in Renaissance Italy"

Dr. Justin Willson
Postdoctoral Fellow, Cleveland Museum of Art
Project Title: "Maksim Grek’s (d. 1556) Writings on Art in Greek and Slavonic"

Over the years the University Library has hosted a number of visiting scholars outside the Library Research Fellowship Program whose access to the resources of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection contributed to their scholarship and creative works.

2008: Mr. Kostis Karpozilos

• Dissertation: Ελληνοαμερικανοί εργάτες, κομμουνιστικό κίνημα και συνδικάτα (1900-1950). Αναζητώντας τον εργατικό εξαμερικανισμό στα χρόνια της μεγάλης ύφεσης (University of Crete, 2010)
• Documentary Film: Ταξισυνειδησία: η άγνωστη ιστορία του Ελληνοαμερικανικού ριζοσπαστισμού = Greek American Radicals The Untold Story (2012)
• Book: Κόκκινη Αμερική:  Έλληνες μετανάστες και το όραμα ενός Νέου Κόσμου 1900-1950 (Red America: Greek Migrants and the Vision of a New World 1900-1950)

2008: Prof. Susan Heuck Allen

• Book: Classical Spies: American Archaeologists with the OSS in World War II Greece

2009-2010: Ms. Evangelia Kindinger

• Dissertation (2012) and Book (2015): Homebound: Diaspora Spaces and Selves in Greek American Return Narratives

2012: Ms. Stavroula Toska

• Documentary Film: Beneath the Olive Tree (2015)

2014: Prof. Adam Goldwyn

• Research on Joseph Eligia and Rae Dalven

2018: Ms. Ioanna Kipourou

• Dissertation research on borderland mobility and cultural citizenship in Greek American and Latinx narratives

2019: Mr. Andonis Piperoglou

• Postdoctoral research on Greek migrants in the English-speaking world (Australia, Canada, and the United States) with a focus on the dynamics of identity and acculturation

2022: Prof. Gonda Van Steen

• Book: The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946–1951
• Online Talk: "Five Years of Feeding: A Recently Published New Source on the Living Conditions of the Children of Late 1940s Greece"

2024: Vasilis Petikas

• Research on working-class Greek-American literature and poetry