Hellenic Heritage Foundation Endowed ChairModern Greek History
York University
Department of History
Ph.D. 1982 University of Cambridge (Classical Archaeology)Diploma 1978 University of Cambridge (Classical Archaeology )
B.A. 1976 Western Michigan University (Anthropology)
Modern Greek Social History and Cultural AnthropologyHistory of Crime, Law, and Violence in Greece
Ionian Islands and British Imperialism
Modern Greece: From Independence to the Present
The Greek Diaspora
Topics in Modern Greek History: A Research Seminar
1.The War of Independence
2. The Civil War
3. Greece in the Age of Liberalism
4. Greek Societies, 1719-1922
Experiencing Dominion: Culture, Identity, and Power in the British Mediterranean. (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2002). Winner of the "2003 Best Book Prize" from the Modern Greek Studies Association for the most outstanding book in MGS published between 1999 and 2003.
Modern Greece. ( London : Arnold Press, New York : Oxford University Press, 2001).
Risk and Survival in Ancient Greece: Reconstructing the Rural Domestic Economy. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1991).
“Hard, Soft and Naked: Power and the Discourse of Law in the British Empire ,” Historien, 2004.
”To Ionio Krato kai Koinonia,” in Sintomi Istoria tis Neoellenikis Kinonias, 1800-2000 , Edited by Antonis Liakos , (Athens : forthcoming).
"Honor, Masculinity, and Ritual Knife-fighting in Nineteenth Century Greece," American Historical Review , 105, 2 (April, 2000), 359-382.
"Crime, Violence, and Reform of the Criminal Justice System During the Era of Trikoupis." In O Harilaos Trikoupis and I Epochi Tou, edited by K. Aroni-Tsihli and L. Triha, 401-10. Athens: Papazisis, 2000.
“Commentary,” Journal of Modern Greek Studies , 17,1 (1999), 203-205.
"Brigandage, Piracy, Capitalism and State-formation: Transnational Crime in an Historical World-systems Perspective," in States and Illegal Networks , edited by Joshua Heyman and Alan Smart, editors. London : Berg Press, 1999, 23-61.
"Murder in a Mediterranean City : Homicide Trends in Athens , 1850-1936," Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora 23.2 (1997), 7-28.
"Greek Exceptionalism and Contemporary Historiography: New Pitfall and Old Debates," Journal of Modern Greek Studies , 16:1 (1998), 17-27.
(With George Esenwein) "The Crisis in European History: One Possible Way Forward," Perspectives , December 1996.
"The Historical Setting," in Greece : An Area Studies Handbook (Washington D.C.: Library of Congress, 1995), 1-82.
"Collective Action and Atomistic Actors: Labor Unions, Strikes and Crime in Greece in the Post-war Era," in Greece in the 21st Century , edited by Theofanis Stavrou and Dimitri Constas (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995), 243-321.
"Turning the Horns: Cultural Metaphors, Material Conditions, and the Peasant Language of Resistance in Ionian Islands (Greece ) during the Nineteenth-century," Comparative Studies in Society and History , 36: 4 (1994), 220-237.
"Agency, Structure, and Explanation in Social History: the Case of the Foundling Home on Kephallenia , Greece , during the 1830s," Social Science History, 15:4 (Winter, 1991), 479-508.
"Peasant Ideology and Excommunication for Crime in a Colonial Context: The Ionian Islands ( Greece ), 1817-1864," Journal of Social History , 23 (1990), 485-512.
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