#  Administrators 

 



The management and arrangement of the Center's affairs, as well as all matters related to its goals and activities, and the formulation of its academic, research, and cultural policy, are exercised by its Administrators (in alphabetical order):

 

 



  [### Mark Elliott

 ](/administrators/mark-c-elliott)Vice Provost for International Affairs

Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History

 

 

 

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   [### Maria Zoie Lafis

 ](/administrators/maria-zoie-lafis)Executive Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC)

 

 

 

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   [### Mark Schiefsky

 ](/administrators/mark-schiefsky)Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC)

C. Lois P. Grove Professor of the Classics

 

 

 

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