DIRECTOR OF THE PROGRAM:
Associate Professor K. Fleming

DIRECTOR OF GRADUATE STUDIES:
Associate Professor Yanni Kotsonis.

The Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies provides instruction in the language, literature, history, and politics of classical, Byzantine, and modern Greece. Students may pursue graduate study in Hellenic studies in conjunction with the Departments of Classics, Comparative Literature, History, and Politics.

Faculty

K. Fleming, Associate Professor, History, Program in Hellenic Studies, Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies; Director, Center for European and Mediterranean Studies; Associate Director, Remarque Institute; Director, Alexander S. Onassis Program in Hellenic Studies. Ph.D. 1995 (history), California (Berkeley); M.A. 1989 (religion), Chicago; B.A. 1988 (religion), Barnard College.
Modern Greek history; Balkans; late Ottoman history; nationalism; religion.

Yanni Kotsonis, Associate Professor, History. Ph.D. 1994 (history), Columbia; M.A. 1986 (Russian history), London; B.A. 1985 (history), Concordia (Montreal).
Russian and European history.

Phillip T. Mitsis, Alexander S. Onassis Professor of Hellenic Culture and Civilization. Ph.D. 1982 (classics and philosophy), Cornell; B.A. 1974 (classics and philosophy), Williams College.
Ancient philosophy.

Kostis Smyrlis, Assistant Professor, History, Program in Hellenic Studies. Ph.D. 2002 (history), D.E.A. 1996 (history of the Byzantine world and post-Byzantine), Paris I (Sorbonne); M.A. 1995 (Byzantine studies), Birmingham (UK); B.A. 1992 (law), Athens.
Byzantine empire, 9th to 15th centuries; economic history; emperor and subjects; state finances; law and land ownership; diplomatics.

Liana Theodoratou, Clinical Associate Professor; Director, Language and Cultural Program; Director, NYU in Athens. Ph.D. 1992 (classics and modern Greek literature), M.A. 1985 (classics and modern Greek literature), Pittsburgh; B.A. 1982 (classics), Athens.
Greek and Latin lyric poetry; Greek drama; modern Greek poetry.