Iakovos
Michailidis
Professor

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School of History and Archaeology

2310 997973

Short CV Presentation

Iakovos Michailidis serves as a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the School of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). During the academic year 2012-2013, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. In the academic year 2019-2020, he received a Fulbright scholarship and was a Visiting Researcher at George Washington University in the USA. That same year, he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an Expert for the Western Balkans at the European Economic and Social Committee of the European Union. He is the Vice President of the Supervisory Council of the Greek General State Archives. He is also the head of the Research Center of the Society for Macedonian Studies and a member of many Greek and European scientific networks and organizations, such as the European thematic history network Clioh/Cliohnet. He is an honorary member of the “Parnassos” Literary Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Historical Museum and the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace

Short CV Presentation

Iakovos Michailidis serves as a Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the School of History and Archaeology of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTh). During the academic year 2012-2013, he served as a Visiting Professor at the University of Cyprus. In the academic year 2019-2020, he received a Fulbright scholarship and was a Visiting Researcher at George Washington University in the USA. That same year, he was an Academic Visitor at the University of Oxford. He has worked as an Expert for the Western Balkans at the European Economic and Social Committee of the European Union. He is the Vice President of the Supervisory Council of the Greek General State Archives. He is also the head of the Research Center of the Society for Macedonian Studies and a member of many Greek and European scientific networks and organizations, such as the European thematic history network Clioh/Cliohnet. He is an honorary member of the “Parnassos” Literary Society and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Historical Museum and the Folklife and Ethnological Museum of Macedonia-Thrace

Contact

School of History and Archaeology

2310 997973

Studies

Publications

2019

“Escaping Nazi Horror: Jewish and Christian Refugees in Cyprus” in Ιsrael Affairs, 25 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2019.1670452

Conferences

2018

“Cleansing the Nation War-Related Demographic Changes in Macedonia” in Katrin Boeckh and Sabine Rutar (eds.), The Wars of Yesterday. The Balkan Wars and the Emergence of Modern Military Conflict, 1912-13, (2018), pp. 326-343

Book Chapters

2018

“Reporting from the Frontline. The war correspondents in the Balkan Wars (1912-1913)” Media History (2018), https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13688804.2018.1519389

Journal Papers

2018

Children of Odysseus: Greek refugees in Middle East and Africa (1941-1946) (Metaixmio Publications: Athens, 2018) (in Greek)

Books

2018

Asia Minor Catastrophe (Papadopoulos: Athens, 2018) (in Greek)

Books

Research Interests

-Modern and Contemporary Greek History -Modern and Contemporary Balkan History -Modern and Contemporary European and Global Histroy

Professional Experience

Courses

Skills

Projects

Knowledge Exchange. Europe and the Black Sea Region, ca. 1750-1850, Horizon 2020, Marie Skłodowska-Curie RISE, 1.01.2017-31.12.2020

Politics of Memory and Memory Cultures of the Russian Ottoman War 1877/1878: From Divergence to Dialogue, Seventh Framework Programme, Marie Curie Actions, 1.02.2016-31.01-2018

Greece from WWII to the Cold War, Programme Thalis, 1.01.2012- 31.12.2015