Alexander Kitroeff
Associate Professor of History
Hall 4
(610) 896-1051
akitroef@haverford.edu
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Education

D.Phil. Oxford University (1984)

M.A. University of Keele (1979)

B.A. University of Warwick (1974)

Research

My research and publishing focuses on nationalism and ethnicity in modern Greece and its diaspora, and its manifestations across a broad spectrum, from politics to sports. In 2018 the American University in Cairo Press is publishing my latest book The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt: from Muhamad Ali to Nasser. I recently completed a book-length ms. on the history of the Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America and I am preparing expanded, updated edition a book I published in 2010, a history of the Athens-based Panathinaikos sports association Ελλάς, Ευρώπη, Παναθηναϊκός: 100 Χρόνια Ελληνική Ιστορία - the revised and updated edition will be published by Kedros Publishers in Athens. My earlier publications include a book on the history of the Greeks in Egypt between the two world wars, a book on the Greeks in the Americas and a volume with articles on the history of the Jews in Greece. I am also continuing my collaboration with film director Maria Iliou for whom I have acted as historical consultant in four documentaries. Our current project is a 5-part history of the city of Athens, from 1821 to the present.

Teaching

My courses focus on the C20th-21st cultural and social history of Europe and the Mediterranean region, with an emphasis on national and ethnic identities:

  • Hist 114 The Modern Mediterranean
  • Hist 215 Sport & Society 
  • Hist 249 Refugees in C20th Europe
  • Hist 250 “White” Ethnicity in the United States 
  • Hist 270 From Empire to Nation: the Ottoman World Transformed
  • Hist 357 Topics in European History: Nationalism & Immigration
  • Hist 400 Senior History Seminar

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