“Greece’s 1821 Revolution and American support.”
Lecture by Historian Dr. Alexander Kitroeff.  March 19th, 2021

The Consulate General of Greece in Boston, under the auspices of the Greek Embassy in Washington, co-hosted a lecture featuring a prominent historian to commemorate the bicentennial of the 1821 Greek Revolution. Dr. Alexander Kitroeff, professor of history at Haverford College and a member of CYA’s Academic Advisory Roundtable, discussed the American philhellenic movement.

Dr. Alexander Kitroeff was born in Athens, Greece in 1955 and completed his high school and university studies in the United Kingdom. He has a D.Phil. in Modern History, from Oxford University, 1984. After doing his national service in Greece, moved to the United States in 1986 to pursue an academic career. Taught at the Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies Center at Queens College, the Hellenic Studies Program at Princeton University, the History Department at Temple University, the History Department, and the Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University, and began teaching at Haverford College in 1996. His research and publishing focus on nationalism and ethnicity in modern Greece and its diaspora, and its manifestations across a broad spectrum, from politics to sports.

Source: Haverford College,

“Reflections on 1821’: A discussion with Historian Mark Mazower.”

Under the auspices of the Embassy of Greece in Washington and on the occasion of the bicentennial of the Greek War of Independence, Historian Mark Mazower, professor of History at Columbia University, is exploring, with Nicolas Prevelakis, assistant director of Curricular Development at the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University, how the understanding of the Greek uprising has been changed by recent scholarship. Ambassador of Greece in the USA Alexandra Papadopoulou, offered the introductory remarks.

Mark Mazower, Ira D. Wallach Professor of History, specializes in modern Greece, 20th-century Europe, and international history. He read classics and philosophy at Oxford, studied international affairs at Johns Hopkins University’s Bologna Center, and has a doctorate in modern history from Oxford (1988). He comments on international affairs and reviews books for the Financial Times, the Nation, the London Review of Books, the New York Review of Books and others. He is the founding director of the Columbia Institute for Ideas and Imagination at Reid Hall in Paris, which opened in 2018, and brings together scholars with leading artists, writers, composers, and filmmakers from around the world.

Source: Columbia University, Department of History,

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