Thursday, October 29 @ 2PM EDT

Dr. Thomas Gallant
Professor of Modern Greek History and Archaeology, Center for Hellenic Studies, University of California, San Diego

Thomas W. Gallant holds the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History and is Professor of Modern Greek History and Archaeology in the History Department and the Center for Hellenic Studies at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from Cambridge University in Classical Archaeology and has been a professor at universities in the US and Canada. He is the author of twelve books and over 50 articles; among his most recent books are Νεώτερη Ελλάδα. Από τον Πόλεμο της Ανεξαρτησίας μέχρι της μέρες μας (2017),The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 1768-1913: The Long Nineteenth Century (2015), Η εμπειρία της αποικιακής κυριαρχίας. Πολιτισμός, ταυτότητα και εξουσία στα Επτάνησα, 1817-1864 (2015), Modern Greece from Independence to the Present (2016), and the Violent August: the 1918 Anti-Greek Riot in Toronto/Οι Άγριες Μέρες του Αυγούστου (2018, 3rd bilingual edition), which has been made into an award-winning documentary film. In progress or forthcoming are Murder on Black Mountain: Love and Death on a Nineteenth Century Greek Island, Europe’s First Modern War: the 1897 Greek-Ottoman War, and Modern Greece from the War of Independence to the Present (3rd edition), and the edited collection of essays Harvesting the Gifts of the Sea: Aegean Societies and Marine Life. He has served on the Modern Greek Studies Association’s Executive Board multiple times and was President from 2003 to 2005. He was the Social Science editor of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies from 2015-2019 and he chaired the 2019 Symposium Program Committee. He is currently editor-in-chief of the ten-volume Edinburgh History of the Greeks and director of the collaborative project KACSHAP: the Kefalonia, Chios, and Andros Social History and Archaeology Project.

Dr. S. Victor Papacosma
ProfessorEmeritus of History and Director Emeritus, Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies, Kent State University

S. Victor Papacosma is Professor Emeritus of History and Director Emeritus of the Lemnitzer Center for NATO and European Union Studies at Kent State University, where he taught for 42 years until 2011. He received his A.B. from Bowdoin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University with a concentration in Balkan history. He has published extensively on Balkan issues, particularly on twentieth-century Greek politics and security issues.  Among his publications are The Military in Greek Politics: The 1909 Coup d’État, which also appeared in Greek translation, and ten coedited volumes of Lemnitzer Center conference proceedings, which focused on NATO and related security topics (e.g., NATO in the Post-Cold War: Does It Have a Future?; NATO and the Warsaw Pact: Intrabloc Conflicts; NATO after Sixty Years).  He served as an officer of the Modern Greek Studies Association and as its Executive Director for ten years (2004-2014). Since his retirement to Brunswick, Maine in 2011, he has been offering courses in the Midcoast Senior College.