Application deadline: May 8, 2024

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Applications are now open for the Center for Hellenic Studies’ new cycle (June 2024-May 2025) of the Early Career Fellowships in Hellenic Studies in Greece and Cyprus program...

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CHS Greece's third annual Research Workshop in Nafplio successfully concluded earlier this month. The workshop hosted a group of 14 participants who have been CHS fellows in Greece for the 2022-2023 academic year and other CHS-affiliated researchers. Participants presented a topic of interest related to the research project that is part of their affiliation with CHS and engaged in out-of-class group activities. The workshop was coordinated by Evan Katsarelis (CHS Greece & University of Athens) and Melina Tamiolaki (University of Crete). This three-day event offered the Center in Greece... Read more about CHS Greece Research Workshop 2023 completed

Guest post by Kristen Mann, Early Career Material Culture Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: The Material Home in Geometric Greece

During the ninth to seventh centuries BC Aegean people radically transformed their social fabric and landscape, emphasizing communal identity and paving the way for the later laws, institutions, and philosophies so emblematic of ancient Greece and its legacy today. As a consequence of growing settlement densities, social codes of interaction became more articulated, while the stresses of an expanding...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Kristen Mann on interpretations of domestic life in the prehistoric settlement of Zagora in Andros

Guest post by Christos Aliprantis, Early Career Fellow in Philhellenism 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: The Habsburg Empire and ‘Imperial Philhellenism’ in the Greek Revolution of 1821

Philhellenism has been widely recognized as a highly influential intellectual and political movement of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, which brought together more often than not classicist aesthetics, liberal ideas, and Christian principles. The Philhellenic mobilization in Europe and North America in favor of the Greek cause above all during the Greek...

Read more about Learn about our fellows’ research projects: Christos Aliprantis on the Philhellenic movement in the Habsburg empire and the advantages of the CHS Fellowship

Guest post by Maria Spathi, 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

The sanctuary of Artemis Limnatis was founded in Early Hellenistic times on the southern slope of Ithome, far from the city center but within the vast fortification wall of the city of Messene. Philippe Le Bas discovered the cult site in the first half of the 19th century. The identification is confirmed by a...

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Guest post by Aikaterini-Iliana Rassia, Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-2023

Research topic during fellowship: Revisiting the Ancient Greek Inscriptions in the Archive of Stephanos A. Koumanoudes (1818-1899) in the National Library of Greece

Scattered inscriptions lying in ruins, whether found in their original archaeological setting or embedded within the walls of public buildings, houses, and in Orthodox churches or Muslim mosques, are preserved in the old notebooks of scholars who made a concerted effort to record, study and collect Greek...

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Guest post by Dimitrios Kanellakis, Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-2023

Research topic during fellowship: New Mimnermus

Recent discoveries of lyric fragments have excited both classical scholars and the general public. Our generation has been lucky enough to welcome the ‘new Simonides’ (1992), ‘new Archilochus’ (2005), ‘new’ (2004) and ‘the newest Sappho’ (2014), and these poets have gained immense popularity which has been ‘cashed out’ in new translations, conferences, edited volumes,...

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Guest post by Tina Kalantzopoulou, Early Career Fellow in Hellenic Studies 2022-2023

Research topic during fellowship: Narratives of Mountainous Areas in the Prehistoric Aegean: A Case-Study of the Dikte Mountains, Crete

My research consistently focuses on the economy, subsistence, social, and political organization of rural prehistoric communities, particularly those located in marginal and/or mountainous areas. The principal aim of my current postdoctoral research, facilitated by the fellowship with the CHS, is understanding the nature of the occupation of...

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Guest post by Konstantinos Kalantzis, Visiting Scholar in Comparative Cultural Studies 2022-23

Research topic during fellowship: Picturing the Political: Photography, Crisis, and Imagination in Contemporary Greece

The project I am pursuing during my CHS Fellowship in Comparative Culture Studies explores contemporary Greek political imagination through the scope of visual culture. By visual culture, I refer to how people experience vision and visibility, their uses of imagery, cameras, and social media, but also, I refer to how I use visual media ethnographically...

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Guest post by Theodora Patrona, 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

In mid-February 2022 I applied for a CHS Fellowship in Comparative Cultural Studies. Being a junior member of staff (Special Teaching Fellow-"ΕΔΙΠ") of the School of English, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Ι was surprised to note the affinity of my research field -Greek and Italian migration to the US and their return...

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Application deadline: March 2, 2023

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Application deadline: February 13, 2023

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