Alexander Kitroeff

Teaching

Professor Kitroeff's teaching is informed by my training and research in the modern history of nationalism and ethnicity in Europe and especially the Balkans and the Mediterranean region. His two introductory level courses examine Mediterranean world from the emergence of Byzantium through the rise of western Europe in the 1500s and the the ways the Mediterranean world responded to the challenges of modernity. Kitroeff's four intermediate level courses examine the impact of nationalism in the Balkans in the C19-20th; the transformation of the Ottoman world into nation states; civil wars in C20th Europe; national identity and sport. At the advanced level he offers a course on the theories of nationalism and another courseon the emergence of the idea of a unified Europe.

Research

Kitroeff's research revolves around the study of national and ethnic identity in modern Greece and its diaspora. I have published three books on these topics, The Greeks in Egypt, 1919-1937: Ethnicity & Class (London, 1989); Griegos en América [The Greeks in the Americas] (Madrid, 1992); Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics (New York, 2004) as well a number of chapters in collected volumes and articles in scholarly journals, in English, Greek and French. He is currently completing a short history of modern Greece and my future projects include a study of Greek nationalism and a history of the Greeks in the United States.

Recent publications:

Books:

• Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity and the Olympics (New York: Greekworks, 2004)

Articles:

• "Greek American Identity in the 1980s" in Eric Bruneau, Ioanis Hassiotis, Martine Hovanessian & Claire Mouradian Eds. Arméniens et Grecs en Diaspora: approches comparatives Athens: L’École Francaise d’ Athènes,(2007) pp. 299-306.
• "Modern Greece and the Olympics: Politics and Sport" in International Olympic Academy Proceedings of 41st Session 27 July – 11 August 2005 (Athens: IOA, 2006), pp. 213-223.
• "E Metapolemike Metanastefsi" [Post-War Emigration] in Ioannis Hasiotis et. al. Eds. Oi Ellines stin Diaspora 15os-21os ai. (The Greeks in the Diaspora C15-20th) (Athens: Parliament of Greece, 2006), pp. 75-91.
• "The Press as a Source for the History of the Greeks in the United States" in Loukia Droulia ed. The Greek Press Since 1784: Historical & Theoretical Perspectives (Athens: INE/EIE, 2005), pp. 371-379.