Past fellows
Past fellows remain active members of the CHS community of scholars and are welcomed and invited to continue collaborating with the Center in various projects both in Greece and in the US. Here follows a list of the past fellows from all the CHS fellowships programs which are supported administratively and logistically by the CHS Greece. The list is organized first by chronology, then by program, and finally in alphabetical order. Please note that the biographical notes linked here reflect the information available at the time of each fellow’s appointment and have not been updated since their original publication.
Angelos Gkotsinas, Archaeologist, Ephorate of Antiquities of Ilia, Greek Ministry of Culture
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024-25Research topic during fellowship: Reconstructing Middle Helladic Central and Northwest Greece: Unearthing Ancient Socioeconomic Insights through Animal Diet, Seasonality and Mobility
Georgios Koukovasilis, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024-25Research topic during fellowship: Honoring the Best: Emotions, Statues, and the Language of Epigraphy in the Imperial Greek City
Sergios Menelaou, Postdoctoral Researcher, British School at Athens
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024-25Research topic during fellowship: Multifaceted Borders, Human Mobility, and Embodied Identities: Investigating Ceramic Interaction Networks in the Eastern Aegean Seaboard
Artemi Papandritsa, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology, Ionian University
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024-25Research topic during fellowship: Museum Tours for Inmates—the Ancient Greek Encounters
Kazuhiro Takeuchi, Independent Researcher
CHS–Institute for Historical Research Joint Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024–25Research topic during fellowship: A New Edition of Inscribed Attic Decrees: Inscriptiones Graecae II/III3 1, fasc. 9
Chrysa Theologou, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Philology, University of Ioannina
Fellow in Philhellenism 2024–25Research topic during fellowship: The Reception of the Philhellenic Movement of 1897 by the Daily Press and Literature
Evgenia Tsafou, Independent Scholar
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2024-25Research topic during fellowship: Archaeology of Mediterranean Cuisine: Cooking Traditions from the 2nd Millennium BCE in the Aegean
Giorgos Bourogiannis, Independent Researcher
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Shifting between scripts. The paradoxical advent of the Greek alphabet on Cyprus
Dafni Maikidou-Poutrino, Independent Researcher
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: The Isiac cults and religious connectivity along the river Strymon
Ioannis Nakas, Independent Researcher
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: The maritime cultural landscape of Roman Epirus: harbours, anchorages, settlements, and networks
Artemis Papatheodorou, Independent Researcher
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Alexander the Great among the Turcophone Greek Orthodox in 19th-century Ottoman Empire: the case of "Aleksandros Makedonyalı Meşhur Padişahın Nakliyeti" book (1843)
Elisavet Sioumpara, Greek Ministry of Culture
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Displaying monumental family dedications near the inventory lists of Athena on the Athenian Acropolis in the time of Lycurgus
Theodoros Koutsogiannis, Hellenic Parliament
Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: The Art of Philhellenism
Eleni Fassa, Democritus University of Thrace
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Gods on the move: divine mobility in Hellenistic and Roman Macedonia
Konstantinos Vlasopoulos, University of Crete
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Enslaved persons and cross-cultural interactions in first-millennium BCE Mediterranean
Ioannis Karakirisidis, University of Crete
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: The Sapphic Aphrodite: a multifaceted (ποικίλη) divinity
Chara Theotokatou, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Household is the Machine: Demarcating the spatial layout and social agency of Late Cypriot households
Despina Vertzagia, Panteion University
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2023-24Research topic during fellowship: Leo Strauss revisits Xenophon: The Esoteric Socratic Philosopher
Tina Kalantzopoulou, Belgian School at Athens
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: Narratives of Mountainous Areas in the Prehistoric Aegean: A Case-Study of the Dikte Mountains, Crete
Dimitrios Kanellakis, University of Cyprus
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: New Mimnermus
Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, University of Erfurt
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: Revisiting the Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the Archive of Stephanos A. Koumanoudes (1818-1899) in the National Library of Greece
Kristen Mann, Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: The Material Home in Geometric Greece
Maria Spathi, Society of Messenian Archaeological Studies
Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: The Sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis in Ancient Messene, Peloponnese. The Votive Deposit from the Campaign on Site in 2018
Christos Aliprantis, Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich
Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: The Habsburg Empire and ‘Imperial Philhellenism’ in the Greek Revolution of 1821
Konstantinos Kalantzis, University of Thessaly
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: Picturing the Political: Photography, Crisis and Imagination in Contemporary Greece
Theodora Patrona, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23Research topic during fellowship: Borders, Migration, and Ethnicity in Historical Perspective: Greek Americans and Italian Americans in Context
Andreas Athanasakis, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23Research topic during fellowship: The Platonic Forma Mundi Problem
Sophia Baltzoi, University of the Peloponnese
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23Research topic during fellowship: The Birth of Tragic Mask through Ritual Practices
Aggelos Mefsout, University of Crete
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23Research topic during fellowship: Multiple Cult Epithets within the Polis: Apollo Delios as a Case Study
Eleni Salavoura, Greek Ministry of Culture and Sports
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: Eastern Attica in the Postpalatial times and a new Late Helladic IIIC cemetery at Porto Raphti
Stella Spantidaki, Hellenic Center for Research and Conservation of Archaeological Textiles in Athens
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: Elite fabrics from the grave circles of Mycenae
Natalia Koutsougera, Panteion University
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: Performative femininities in transnational urban dance styles: aspects of gendered resistance
Chryssanthi Papadopoulou, University of the Peloponnese
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: The weaker the body, the stronger the protest
Panagiotis Androulakis, University of Crete
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: Conspiracy narratives and authorial intervention in the ‘Roman Archaeology’ of Dionysius of Halicarnassus.
Roberta Dainotto, University of Crete
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: The concept of self and otherness in ancient Greek courts
Eleni Mosiou, University of Crete
Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22Research topic during fellowship: The case against Timocrates: legal issues and substantive arguments against the unsuitability of Timocrates' law (Dem. 24.17-109).
Francesco Scalora, Sicilian Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies "Bruno Lavagnini"
Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2021Research topic during fellowship: The diary of Cesare Vitali
Christos Aristopoulos, University of Cyprus
Center for Hellenic Studies–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: Panhellenism and Athenian Athletics.
Despoina Dretaki, University of Crete
Center for Hellenic Studies–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: Athletics in the Era of Peloponnesian War.
Georgios Podaropoulos, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Center for Hellenic Studies–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: The Poetics of Perspective on the Body in the Epinician Genre.
Paraskevi Salepi, University of the Peloponnese
Center for Hellenic Studies–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: The institutional environment of the National Olympic Academies and their dependence on resources.
Evangelos Tataridis, University of Crete
Center for Hellenic Studies–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: Orestes in Olympia.
Alexandros Velaoras, University of Patras
Center for Hellenic Studies–International Olympic Academy Pre-doc Fellow in Sport and Society 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: Tragic ἄεθλοι.
Ioanna Moutafi, American School of Classical Studies
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: The Bioarchaeology of the Early Mycenaean Period: An Interdisciplinary Study of Human Skeletal Remains from Ayios Vasilios (Laconia) and Kirrha (Phokis).
Nikos Tsivikis, Academy of Athens and Institute of Mediterranean Studies (Rethymno)
Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: An Early End to Antiquity in Roman Provincial Greece: Pagans and Christians in the Wake of the AD 365 Earthquake in Messene.
Theodore Antoniadis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: Contextualizing Mobility and Immigration in Roman Myth and Latin Epic.
Maria Nikolopoulou, National and Κapodistrian University of Athens
Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2020–21Research topic during fellowship: The reception of American literature in Greece in the long 1960s and the perception of Greece in the poetry of the Beats.
Katerina Panagopoulou, University of Crete
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2019–2020Research topic during fellowship: From Moving Beyond to Moving Without Boundaries: Monetary Conventions in Northern Greece (Archaic – Hellenistic)
Victoria Ferentinou, University of Ioannina
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2019–2020Research topic during fellowship: Transgressing Cultural Borders: The New Myth, Nanos Valaoritis, and the Greek Avant-Garde.
Dionysos Alexiou, University of Cyprus and University of Nicosia
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2019–2020Research topic during fellowship: Phaedra and Hippolytus: the intertextual journey of the mytheme in 21st century theatrical plays
Zoi Kalamara, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2019–2020Research topic during fellowship: Odysseus in Aeschylean drama: revisiting the fragments
Dimitrios Theocharis, University of Bolton
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2019–2020Research topic during fellowship: Women in Medicine. An epigraphic research
George Kotzoglou, University of the Aegean
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2018–2019Research topic during fellowship: On the Linguistic Fingerprints of Empires: linguistic borrowing, grammatical thought, and language contact in the languages of the Eastern Mediterranean
Christos Tsironis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2018–2019Research topic during fellowship: From the era of empires to the second modernity: contesting hegemonies, migration and human rights. A note on the first article of the UDHR
Apostolia Alepidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2018–2019Research topic during fellowship: Near-Eastern Echoes in Il. 16.33-35
Angelos Boufalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2018–2019Research topic during fellowship: Local Scripts in Archaic Macedonia
Dimitra Karamitsou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2018–2019Research topic during fellowship: A Psychological Study of Dreams in Hellenistic Poetry
Demetrios Kyritses, University of Crete
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2017–2018Research topic during fellowship: Authority subverting itself. ‘Erratic’ rulership as a historical problem and the case study of 9th-century Byzantium
Anna Rosenberg, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2017–2018Research topic during fellowship: People on the move in the 20th century in Southeastern Europe
Maria Chriti, Centre for the Greek Language
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2017–2018Research topic during fellowship: Aristotle as a name-giver: the cognitive aspect of his theory and practice
Vasileios Liotsakis, Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2017–2018Research topic during fellowship: Nearchus' 'Nostos': Narrative Suspense in Arrian's Indikē
Androniki Oikonomaki, Centre for the Greek Language
CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2017–2018Research topic during fellowship: Ἀχαιοί, Ἀργεῖοι, Δαναοί: Revisiting the system of denomination of the Greeks in the Homeric epics
Lena Arampatzidou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2016–2017Research topic during fellowship: C.P. Cavafy and the Poetics of Aestheticism: from the Hellenistic tradition to the fin-de-siècle Aesthetics of Artificiality
Maria Kouri, University of Peloponnese
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2016–2017Research topic during fellowship: National Hellenic Museum (Chicago): swinging between ethnicity, nationality and ecumenism
Ioannis Fappas, Archaelogical Museum of Thebes
CHS Fellow in Hellenic Studies in Greece 2016–2017Research topic during fellowship: Archaeology through Archives: The Archaeological Research in Boeotia through Original Historical Archives
Georgios Kazantzidis, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2015–2016Research topic during fellowship: Mental Illness in Antiquity: Between rational medicine, magic and the gods
Aggeliki Rosi, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2014–2015Research topic during fellowship: Theatrical and cinematic versions of colonial imagery in France of the interwar years
Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis-Mallidis, University of Ioannina
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2014–2015Research topic during fellowship: Language representations of Greek financial crisis in public sphere (media and internet)
Nikos Mpozatzis, University of Ioannina
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2013–2014Research topic during fellowship: 'Beware of Greeks bearing bonds' or culturalizing the financial crisis: Occidentalist practices in the representation of Greece in a Vanity Fair article
Athina Papachrysostomou, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2013–2014Research topic during fellowship: Comic Money: the case of fragments
Panayiota Mini, University of Crete
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2012–2013Research topic during fellowship: The Roman Empire in Hollywood Cinema
Fevronia Nousia, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2012–2013Research topic during fellowship: Teaching the Byzantine Student: Palaeologan Scedographies
Nikolaos Haralambopoulos, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2011–2012Research topic during fellowship: Doors Wide Shut, The blues of the rejected lover
† Epameinondas Vampoulis, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2011–2012Research topic during fellowship: The influence of Archimedes in early modern science and philosophy
Georgia Gotsi, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2010–2011Research topic during fellowship: What do Frontiers Divide? Reflexions on the Immigrant Voice in Contemporary Greek Fiction
Irene-Sophia Kiapidou, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2010–2011Research topic during fellowship: Historiography in Byzantium: texts, writers, aims and writing principles
Spyros Rangos, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2009–2010Research topic during fellowship: Oriental Affinities in Early Greek Philosophy
† Olga Vartzioti, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2009–2010Research topic during fellowship: Ancient and modern meanings of the Greek concept of politismos
Effimia Karakantza, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2008–2009Research topic during fellowship: Elektra's Menos. Sophokles vs Stein in the 2007 Production of Elektra by the National Theatre of Greece
Pavlos Kontos, University of Patras
CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2008–2009Research topic during fellowship: Project on Aristotelian Ethics