Elizabeth Davis & Katerina Zacharia to serve as Co-Editors of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (January 2027 - January 2030)

The MGSA is pleased to announce that Elizabeth Davis and Katerina Zacharia will assume the positions of Co-Editors of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies beginning in January 2027 and continuing through January 2030. Both are highly accomplished scholars, and the Executive Board is confident that, together, they will lead the JMGS successfully through the next editorial term. We greatly appreciate Elizabeth and Katerina’s dedication to the field of Modern Greek studies and their willingness to step forward in support of the scholarly mission of the MGSA.

Elizabeth Davis (PhD, University of California, Berkeley) is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University, where she is affiliated with the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies and is also active in the Princeton Athens Center. At both centers, she organizes and participates in events and research collaborations with anthropologists, archaeologists, historians, and other scholars, as well as with artists and students based at universities in Greece, Cyprus, and throughout the Greek diaspora. Her work in anthropology is situated at the intersections of psyche, body, history, knowledge, and power, and is distinguished by experientially grounded ethnography of Greek and Cypriot communities. 

Elizabeth has served on the MGSA Executive Board as well as on the JMGS Editorial Board. She has served twice on the Executive Board (2008–2011, as Chair of the Graduate Studies Committee; and 2020–2023, as Chair of the Administration Committee), during which time she gained extensive familiarity with theJMGS through regular meetings and discussions with its editors. For the MGSA, she has also served as Chair of the Edmund Keeley Book Prize Committee (2022) and as a member of the Program Committee for the MGSA’s biennial symposia on three occasions. For the JMGS, Elizabeth served as Associate Editor of Social Sciences (2012-2019) with prior experience of the Journal by serving on the Editorial Board. She is an accomplished scholar who has published numerous books, book chapters, articles, and an edited volume, including The Time of the Cannibals: On Conspiracy Theory and Context (Fordham, 2025), Artifactual: Forensic and Documentary Knowing (Duke, 2023), and Bad Souls: Madness and Responsibility in Modern Greece (Duke, 2012). (For a fuller description see her curriculum vitae.

Katerina Zacharia (PhD, University College London) is Professor of Classics at Loyola Marymount University, where her scholarship and teaching engage critically with questions of identity, migration, and cultural exchange in both ancient and modern Greek contexts. Her research examines ethnic identity formation, religious practice, and social hierarchies in classical Greece, while her pedagogical work bridges antiquity with contemporary issues of displacement, belonging, and cross-cultural encounter. Through extensive collaboration with the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, she has developed robust programs that connect academic inquiry with public engagement, creating pathways for students and community members to explore Greek cinema as a lens for understanding migration, diaspora, and cultural memory.

Katerina’s editorial experience includes service on the Editorial Board of Text and Presentation (2005–2010) and as a manuscript referee for Classical Philology,Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, and other peer-reviewed publications. For the MGSA, she has served on the Executive Board (2020–2023). She is also an active scholar, with publications including Converging Truths: Euripides’ Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition (Brill, 2003), as well as her edited volumeHellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity (Ashgate, 2008; Routledge, 2016), and articles on Greek cinema, tourism, and cultural heritage.  (For a fuller description and a link to her curriculum vitae, please see: .)

Finally, we express our deepest gratitude to Artemis Leontis for her sustained dedication and commitment to the JMGS. Her careful stewardship of the Journal is one of the reasons it was awarded the 2025 Greek State Literary Prize (Honorary Distinction) by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture’s Literary Awards Committee, in recognition of its “contribution to the dissemination of modern Greek studies internationally.” Artemis served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal beginning in 2024, Editor of Arts & Humanities (2013–2016 and 2016–2019), and earlier as Associate Editor (1999–2006). She has maintained the Journal’s high standards while expanding its scope and offerings, and she will be overseeing the publication of the May 2027 issue. We thank Artemis for her many years of outstanding service and wish her all the best in the future.

Katerina Lagos, President

Modern Greek Studies Association