Academic work

By following this link to my Slideshare account, you will find all of my graduate research work.

- Presentations done for the University of Macedonia, the Sorbonne Nouvelle and New York University.

Topics: the occupation of Ireland and Palestine; the occupation of the now French region of Alsace by Germany; the Cosa Nostra mafia; the History of the right to bear arms in the US; the early coverage of the Islamic State by US media; the Greek diaspora to the US; Ireland's musical legacy in relation to its war History; the cultural policies of Greece, France and the European Union; Greek and African-American immigration to the North of the US in the 1910s-1920s.


- My first graduate dissertation on the role of The Times and The Irish Times in the 1921 Anglo-Irish agreement. 

In the 20th century, Anglo-Irish relations were more strained than ever, with Ireland’s centuries-old wish for autonomy becoming more and more pressing after the 1916 Republican Easter Rising. Rising Irish nationalism was met by the British government with confused approaches and policies, leading to a large-scale civil war never officially recognised by Great-Britain; the truce of 11 October 1921 put a stop to it, and then the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 6 December 1921 settled Anglo-Irish relations, to the greatest relief of all or almost. This research studies the influence of The Times and The Irish Times on these two major events.
 

- My second dissertation on the Black The Chicago Defender and the Greek The National Herald newspapers in the US, and what was their role in the immigration and settlement of their respective ethnic communities to the North of the United States in the early 20th century. 

This research aims at emphasizing differences and similarities in the adaptation of two ethnic communities in the United States that are seldom compared: Greek Americans and African Americans. More precisely, this study will focus on the time period of the 1910s-1920s, where a massive migration took place to the North of the United States, coming from Greece as well as segregationist Southern States. The adaptation to the American North as well as the cultural retention of these communities will be studies through the lens of their ethnic press – two representative newspapers were chosen: The Chicago Defender for the Black community and The National Herald for the Greek community.