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KATERINA G. LAGOS
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office address: home Address:
Dept. of History, Tahoe 3089 7380 Nob Hill Drive
California State University, Sacramento Carmichael, CA 95825
6000 j street phone: +1 (916) 944-2564
Sacramento, ca 95819-6059 mobile: +1 (916) 266-3263
office: +1 (916) 278-7103
e-mail:
EDUCATION:
2001-2005 DPhil St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Faculty: Modern History
Supervisor: Richard Clogg
Dissertation topic: “The Metaxas Dictatorship and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941”
Defended (Viva Voce): December 2003
1995 - 2000 PhD Candidate in History, New York University, NYC, NY. Primary Field: Modern European History
Minor Field: Ottoman History
Area of Specialization: Modern Greek History and Politics
PhD Comprehensive and Oral Exams: spring 1996
1993 - 1995 Master of Arts, New York University, NYC, NY.
Field of Concentration: Modern European History
Area of Interest: Modern Greek History and Politics
Supervisor: Speros Vryonis, Jr.
Qualifying Paper: “The Role of United States’ Involvement in Greek
Domestic Affairs Leading to the Junta Coup d’Etat of 21 April 1967”
1988 - 1993 Bachelor of Arts, with Departmental and University Honors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Major: Honors Political Science
Advisor: Michael McCann
Bachelor of Arts, with Departmental and University Honors, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Major: Honors History
Advisor: Peter Sugar
RESEARCH AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE:
2014 –present professor, Department of History, California State University,
Sacramento, CA.
Director, CSUS Hellenic Studies Center/Program, California State
University, Sacramento, CA.
co-Director, Annunciation Greek School Program, Sacramento, CA.
2009- 2014 Associate Professor, Department of History, California State University,
Sacramento, CA.
Director, CSUS Hellenic Studies Center/Program, California State
University, Sacramento, CA.
2003 – 2009 assistant professor, Department of History, California State University,
Sacramento, CA.
Director, CSUS Hellenic Studies Center/Program, California State
University, Sacramento, CA.
2003 Auxiliary Professor, Spring Quarter, University of Washington Study
Abroad Program, Co-Faculty, Ioannina, Greece, Comparative History of Ideas
Department, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
PAPERS:
2015- January 2-5, American Historical Association, New York City, NY
Topic: “The Thessaloniki Fire of 1917: The Role of Defensive Nationalism”
2013- November 14-17, Modern Greek Studies Association Biennial Conference, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Topic: “Defending Hellenic Identity: Interwar Fears and the Repression of Foreign and Minority School Education in Greece, 1924-41”
April 28–30, Symposium on Sephardic Jewry and the Holocaust: The Future of the Field, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Paper Topic: “Forced Assimilation or Emigration: The Case of Sephardic Jewry in Thessaloniki, 1917 – 1941”
2012- October 12-14, Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA), Modern Greek
Language Workshop, San Francisco State University, CA
Topic: “Modern Greek Language Teacher Training Program at Sacramento State
University”
June 7-10, American Association of Teachers of Modern Greek, National Standards
and Modern Greek Language Education Conference, Stanford University, CA
Paper Topic: “Modern Greek Language Teacher Training Program at Sacramento State
University”
April 26-27, South East European Studies Programme, St. Antony’s College,
Oxford/Simon Fraser University Conference, Greek Debt Crisis: Debt, Sovereignty,
and Civil Society, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Paper topic: “A Greek Default Lost in the Aftermath of the 1929 Stock-Market Crash”
February 17, South East European Studies Programme, St. Antony’s College,
Oxford, UK
Paper topic: “Minority Challenges to Greek National Identity: The Case of Greek
Jewry”
2011- October 13-16, Modern Greek Studies Association, New York University, NY
Paper topic: “Hellenism and Interwar Greek Education”
2010 – March 30, UC Berkeley, History Forum, Berkeley, California
Paper Topic: “Educational Policies in Interwar Greece: Greek Jewry, Slavo-
Macedonians, Catholics and the Politics of Hellenization”
February 20, Sacramento State University, History and Humanities Forum,
Sacramento, California
Paper Topic: “Educational Policies in Greece: Greek Jewry, Slavo-Macedonians, and
Catholics during the Metaxas Dictatorship”
2009- February 20, Sacramento State University, History and Humanities Forum,
Sacramento, California
Paper Topic: “Resistance and Relief in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944”
2006 - May 26-28, South East European Studies Programme, St. Antony’s College, Oxford,
UK
Panel Chair: “Culture, Education, and (Trans-)Nationalism”
2005- November 3-5, Modern Greek Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois
Paper topic: “The Policies of Hellenization and Sephardic Jewry in Thessaloniki, 1917-1941”
June 17-19, South East European Studies Programme, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, UK
Panel Chair: “Culture, Education, and (Trans-)Nationalism”
April 20-21, ASEN, London School of Economics, London, UK
Panel Chair: “The Hapsburg Empire and After”
January 6-9, American Historical Association, Seattle, Washington
Panel Chair: “Sports and the Politics of National Identity”
2004- December 28-29, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens
Paper topic: “Educational Policies and Assimilationist Agenda in Greece during the Interwar Period, 1919 – 1941”
May 28, European Studies Center, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Paper topic: “Nationalizing the Jewish ‘other’: cultural perceptions of Greek Jewry
during the Metaxas Dictatorship”
2003 - October 16-18, Modern Greek Studies Association, Toronto, Canada
Paper topic: “Paradigms of inclusion and exclusion: the Metaxas dictatorship and Greek Jewry, 1936-41”
January 28, European Studies Center, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Paper topic: “Paradigms of Inclusion and Exclusion: Perceptions of the Jews during the Metaxas Dictatorship”
2002 - November 19, European Studies Center, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Paper topic: “Press, Censorship and Media Depictions of the Jews during the Metaxas Dictatorship”
2001 - November 23, European Studies Center, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford
Paper topic: “Perception and Treatment of the Greek Jews by the Metaxas Dictatorship and the Ministry for Foreign Affairs, 1936 – 1941”
2000 - February 16, Rancho Cordova, CA. Speros Basil Vryonis Center for Hellenic Studies
Paper topic: “Metaxas’ Censorship of the Press and its Effect on Greek Jews”
1999 - November 6-8, Modern Greek Studies Association, Princeton University, New Jersey
Paper topic: “Metaxas’ Conceptualization of the Jews in Greece in the Context of his
‘Third Great Greek Civilization’”
PUBLICATIONS:
2014 Article: “Forced Assimilation or Emigration: The Case of Sephardic Jewry in
Thessaloniki, 1917 – 1941” in The Journal of Modern Hellenism, vol. 31, winter
2014, forthcoming.
Article: “Minority Challenges to Greek National Identity: The Case of Greek
Jewry” in Southeast European Studies Programme Occasional Papers Series, St.
Antony’s College, Oxford, forthcoming.
2011 Review Article: “Surveying the History of Modern Greece”, In Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, volume 26/27, 2010/2011.
Book review: Thanos Veremis and John Koliopoulos. Modern Greece: A History Since 1821. History: Reviews of New Books, volume 39, issue 2, February 2011.
2010 Book Review: Steven Bowman, The Agony of Greek Jews. East European Jewish Affairs, volume 40, issue 2, 2010.
2008 Book Review: Steven Bowman, editor, The Holocaust in Salonika, Eyewitness Accounts. Translated with introductions and notes by Isaac Benmayor. In Journal of Modern Greek Studies, vol. 21, no 1, May 2008, pp. 233- 235.
2007 Article: “The Metaxas Dictatorship and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941,” Journal for Modern Hellenism, vol. 23-24 (2006-2007): 45-80.
2005 Article: “The Hellenization of Sephardic Jews in Thessaloniki in the Interwar Period, 1917 -1941”, in Themes in European History: Essays from the 2nd International Conference on European History. Athens: ATINER, 2006.
2003 Book review: Joachim Joachim. Ioannis Metaxas: the Formative Years, 1871-1922 (Mannheim, Bibliopolis: 2001). In Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, vol 16/17, 2000-1, pp. 641-644.
COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS:
2014 April 10, Capitol Public Radio, “Insight”
Topic: “The Greeks on the Road to World War I”
2013 October 1, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Topic: “Nikos Tselementes: The Father of Modern Hellenic Cuisine”
September 28, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church Greek School Program,
Sacramento
Topic: “Introduction to Rebetiko Music”
2012 October 28, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Master of Ceremonies for Oxi Day Celebration
2011 October 29, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Topic: “The Metaxas Dictatorship and ‘Oxi’”
2010 May 4, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Topic: “Greece Under Nazi Occupation: The Famine of 1941-1942 and the Greek War
Relief Association”
2008 November 4, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Topic: “Patriotism and Politics: American Elections and Greek Dictatorships”
March 23, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Topic: “Difficulties and Dilemmas of Greek Independence, 1821 – 1828”
2006 March 26, Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, Sacramento
Topic: “Perceptions and Reactions of the Greek War of Independence in the United States, 1821-1828”.
2005 May 7, American Hellenic Professional Society, Sacramento
Topic: “Historical Interpretations of the Greek Civil War, 1943-1949”
EXHIBITS/LECTURE SERIES:
2014 April, University Library Gallery
Topic: “The Greeks on the Eve of World War I”
2010 October-November, University Library Gallery
Topic: “The Creative Photograph in Archeology”
March-May, University Library Gallery
Topic: “Resistance and Relief: Axis Occupied Greece, 1941-1944”
2008 January – March, University Library Gallery
Topic: “Hellenism and Orthodoxy: Sacred Images”
2006 September-October, University Library Gallery
Topic: “Images of Macedonia: From Antiquity to the Present”
2004 March–May, University Library Gallery
Topic: “The Olympic Games: The Greek Connection, 776 BC – 2004 AD”
AWARDS - HONORS:
2014 College of Arts & Letters, Outstanding Community Service Award
2006-2007 Research and Creative Activity Award
2005-2006 Pedagogy Enhancement Award
1998 - 1999 Dissertation Grant, Remarque Institute for European Studies and
the Alexander S. Onassis Center For Hellenic Studies, New York
University, NY, NY
1996 - 1997 Alexander S. Onassis Foundation Dissertation Scholarship, Athens
1996 Carnegie Mellon Summer Research Scholarship
1995 - 1996 Onassis Center Dissertation Scholarship, Alexander S. Onassis
Center for Hellenic Studies, New York University, NY, NY
1995 Carnegie Mellon Summer Research Scholarship
1994 - 1995 Onassis Center Scholarship, Alexander S. Onassis Center for
Hellenic Studies, New York University, NY, NY
1993 - 1994 Fellowship in Residence, New York University, NY, NY
1993 - 1994 University Fellowship, New York University, NY, NY
1993 BA in History, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
Departmental and University Honors
BA in Political Science, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Departmental and University Honors
1991 Golden Key Honors Society
1990 Harry S. Truman Scholarship, regional candidate
Rotary Foundation Scholarship, regional candidate
LANGUAGES:
Fluency - English, Greek
Proficiency - French
DEPARTMENT/UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES:
Hellenic Studies Committee, Director
Research and Creative Activities Subcommittee, Chair
History Department Assessment Committee, Chair
History Department Scholarship Committee, Member
PROFESSIONAL COMMITTEES:
Annunciation Greek School Program, Sacramento, Executive Committee Member
University of Washington Hellenic Studies Program Visiting Committee, Member
West Coast Hellenic Studies Consortium, Member
Executive Board, Modern Greek Studies Association, Member
Hellenic Educational Committee, West Coast Metropolis, Member
ASSOCIATIONS:
American Historical Association
Modern Greek Studies Association
Phi Beta Delta Honor Society
Leadership 100
American Hellenic Professional Society
Marquis’ Who’s Who
Cambridge Who’s Who