Modern Greek Studies Association

Dr. Alex Tipei

Professeure adjointe

Université de Montréal
Dept. of History

Degrees

Indiana University, PhD 2016

Institut des langues et cultures orientales-Paris, DEA, 2006

Ecole Normale Superieure-Paris, Pre-doctoral diploma, 2006

University of Illinois, BA, 2004

Principal Presentations and Publications

Unintended Nations: France’s Empire of Civilization, Southeast Europe, & the Post-Napoleonic World, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2025.

“Accusations of Tyranny & the Foreign Financing of Infrastructure in the Early Greek State: Mobilizing the Imperial Past in Pursuit of French Informal Empire,” in What Binds Must Also Separate: Infrastructural Development, Corruption, Xenophobia, & Colonial Anxieties in Nineteenth-Century South-Eastern Europe, Silvia Marton & Andrei-Dan Sorescu (eds.), Central European University Press, forthcoming.

“What Did Romanianness Mean to Ion? Moving Beyond Methodological Nationalism through Keith Hitchin’s Pedagogy,” Journal of Romanian Studies, 6:2(2024): 217-237.

“Korais’s Greece & Napoleon’s Empire: The Egyptian Campaign, Race Science, & the Europeanization of an Idea,” in From the Napoleonic Age to the Age of Empires: Empire after the Emperor, Thomas Dodman & Aurélien Lignereux (eds.), (Palgrave, 2023).

“‘And Mama Studied with Me’: Elementary Education, Modernization, Gendered Curricula, & the Reconfiguration of the Public & Private in the Danubian Principalities & Greek lands, 1810s-1840s,” East European Politics & Societies, 31:1 (2023): 239-263.

“Cum să-ți faci prieteni și să ‘influența’ franceză și Balcanii, anii 1815-1830”
Revista Istorică, 32:4-6 (2021): 373-398.

"How to Make Friends and Influence People: Elementary Education, French 'Influence,' and the Balkans, 1815-1850," Modern Intellectual History,15:3 (Nov., 2018): 621-649.

“Audience Matters: ‘Civilization-Speak,’ Educational Discourses, & Balkan Nationalism, 1815-40,” European History Quarterly, 48:4 (Fall, 2018): 658-685.

"Why All Humanists Should Go to Prison," The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 16 2016 (print and online).

“Care and the Politics of Sentiment” (invited comment), The Workshop (Proceedings of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 4 (June, 2016): 70-72.

“Civilization and the Xenos” (invited comment), The Workshop (Proceedings of the Indiana Center for Eighteenth-Century Studies) 3 (June, 2015): 41-42.