Past Fellows

Here follows a list of the past fellows from all the CHS Fellowships Programs which are supported by the CHS Greece. 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.

  • Tina Kalantzopoulou, Belgian School at Athens
    Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23

    Research 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 2022-23

    Research topic during fellowship: New Mimnermus

  • Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, University of Erfurt
    Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23

    Research 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 2022-23

    Research topic during fellowship: The Material Home in Geometric Greece

  • Maria Spathi, Society of Messenian Archaeological Studies
    Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23

    Research 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 2022-23

    Research 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 2022-23

    Research 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 2022-23

    Research 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 2022–23

    Research topic during fellowship: The Platonic Forma Mundi Problem

  • Sophia Baltzoi, University of the Peloponnese
    Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23

    Research topic during fellowship: The Birth of Tragic Mask through Ritual Practices

  • Aggelos Mefsout, University of Crete
    Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022–23

    Research 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 2021–22

    Research 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 2021–22

    Research topic during fellowship: Elite fabrics from the grave circles of Mycenae

  • Natalia Koutsougera, Panteion University
    Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies 2021–22

    Research 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 2021–22

    Research topic during fellowship: The weaker the body, the stronger the protest

  • Panagiotis Androulakis, University of Crete
    Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22

    Research 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 2021–22

    Research topic during fellowship: The concept of self and otherness in ancient Greek courts

  • Eleni Mosiou, University of Crete
    Pre-doctoral Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2021–22

    Research 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 2021

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research topic during fellowship: Tragic ἄεθλοι.

  • Ioanna Moutafi, American School of Classical Studies
    Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2020–21

    Research 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 2019–2020

    Research 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 2019–2020

    Research 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 2019–2020

    Research 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 2019–2020

    Research topic during fellowship: Odysseus in Aeschylean drama: revisiting the fragments

  • Dimitrios Theocharis, University of Bolton
    CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2019–2020

    Research topic during fellowship: Women in Medicine. An epigraphic research

  • George Kotzoglou, University of the Aegean
    CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2018–2019

    Research 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 2018–2019

    Research 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 2018–2019

    Research topic during fellowship: Near-Eastern Echoes in Il. 16.33-35

  • Angelos Boufalis, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2018–2019

    Research topic during fellowship: Local Scripts in Archaic Macedonia

  • Dimitra Karamitsou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2018–2019

    Research topic during fellowship: A Psychological Study of Dreams in Hellenistic Poetry

  • Demetrios Kyritses, University of Crete
    CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2017–2018

    Research 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 2017–2018

    Research 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 2017–2018

    Research 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 2017–2018

    Research topic during fellowship: Nearchus' 'Nostos': Narrative Suspense in Arrian's Indikē

  • Androniki Oikonomaki, Centre for the Greek Language
    CHS–AUTH Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2017–2018

    Research 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 2016–2017

    Research 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 2016–2017

    Research 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 2016–2017

    Research 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 2015–2016

    Research 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 2014–2015

    Research 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 2014–2015

    Research 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 2013–2014

    Research 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 2013–2014

    Research topic during fellowship: Comic Money: the case of fragments

  • Panayiota Mini, University of Crete
    CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2012–2013

    Research topic during fellowship: The Roman Empire in Hollywood Cinema

  • Fevronia Nousia, University of Patras
    CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2012–2013

    Research topic during fellowship: Teaching the Byzantine Student: Palaeologan Scedographies

  • Nikolaos Haralambopoulos, University of Patras
    CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2011–2012

    Research 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 2011–2012

    Research 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 2010–2011

    Research 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 2010–2011

    Research 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 2009–2010

    Research topic during fellowship: Oriental Affinities in Early Greek Philosophy

  • † Olga Vartzioti, University of Patras
    CHS Fellow in Comparative Cultural Studies in Greece 2009–2010

    Research 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 2008–2009

    Research 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 2008–2009

    Research topic during fellowship: Project on Aristotelian Ethics