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Areas of Specialization
Medieval and Early Modern Russian History and Culture
Greek-Russian Cultural Contacts
Western Influences on Greek and Russian Cultures
Indulgences (Syngkhorohartia) in Eastern Orthodoxy
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
The Modern Balkans
Modern Eastern Europe
The Byzantine and Ottoman Empires
Prof. Nikolaos Chrissidis
Assistant Professor of History
Southern Connecticut State University
Department of History
Degrees
Ph.D. 2000 Yale University (History)
M.Phil. 1994 Yale University (History)
M.A. 1992 Yale University (History)
B.A. 1990 Aristotle University, Thessalonike (History)
Principal Publications
"A Jesuit Aristotle in Seventeenth Century Russia: Cosmology and the Planetary System in the Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy." In: Jarmo Kotilaine and Marshall Poe, eds. Modernizing Muscovy: Reform and Social Change in Seventeenth-Century Russia. (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2004).
Articles “Brothers Leichoudes,” “Sylvester Medvedev,” “Slavo-Greco-Latin Academy,” in: James Millar, editor-in-chief, The Encyclopedia of Russian History , 4 vols. (New York: Macmillan Reference, 2003).