#  Dr. Nicolas Prevelakis 

Associate Director of Curricular Development of the Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, DC)

 

 

 



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Nicolas Prevelakis is the Associate Director of Curricular Development at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Associate Senior Lecturer on Social Studies at Harvard University's Committee on Degrees in Social Studies, and Faculty Associate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in Moral and Political Philosophy from the University of Paris-Sorbonne (Paris IV) and a second Ph.D. in Political Sociology from Boston University. His research focuses on the history of political philosophy, religion and politics, and nationalism. He has published articles and encyclopedia entries on social and political theory, secularization theory, nationalism and ethnicity, modern Greek history, and conceptions of the self in Christian thought. He is the author of *Liberalism: Returning to Its Roots and Recommitting to the Common Good* (Institut Montaigne, 2025) and co-author (with Nikoletta Tsitsanoudis-Mallidis) of *Phovoglossa* (Kastaniotis, 2022). He is a member of the Sectoral Scientific Council on Creativity, Arts and Humanities, General Secretariat for Research and Innovation (GSRI), Ministry of Development, Greece. Nicolas has been closely collaborating with CHS Greece for more than a decade, leading the design of the Center's academic and other activities in Greece and the United States, and actively contributing to the development, academic organization, and coordination of various CHS-Harvard initiatives in Greece, as well as in Cambridge, MA, and Washington, DC.



 

 

 





 

 

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