Research & Professional Achievements
Research & Professional Achievements
My research focuses on the intersection of history, political science, international relations, and sociology, focusing on state formation, policing, migration, and nationalism in Europe from the nineteenth century to the present.
Transimperial political policing in Eastern Europe: Austria(-Hungary), Prussia/Germany, and Russia in their entangled and transnational police and security relations between 1815 and 1914. I secured a research grant from the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Berlin) to conduct research on this area between July and September 2026. This piece of research forms part of much wider project originating from my PhD dissertation and dealing with transnational political policing across nineteenth century Europe.
Imperial Transitions in the early Cold War: the UK and the USA in Thessaloniki (Greece), 1946-49: alongside Dr. Oliver Ayers (Northeastern University London) and Dr. Maria Kyriakidou (Anatolia American University), we are currently (August 2025 to August 2026) running a joint British Academy-Leverhulme Trust-funded research project dealing with the presence of the UK and the USA in Thessaloniki (Greece) during the Greek Civil War (1946-49) and mapping the swifting British and American presence in the city. A digital map using geospatial (GIS) methods to depict this presence is being prepared, in addition to an international symposium on Thessaloniki and Northern Greece as a Cold War borderland in 1946-49, which is scheduled to take place in London on 18 May 2026.
with Panayis Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Uniformed Societies, 1944-2024. Contemporary Sociological and Historical Approaches (Athens: Patakis, 2026, in Greek)
with Anna Ross (eds.), State-Making in An Age of Revolution, 1830-1880 (London: Liverpool University Press/Proccedings of the British Academy, 2025)
“The Tourist Police and Nation Building in Contemporary Greece (1935-1974)”, Journal of Tourism History, accepted and forthcoming
"Policing Subversion in post-Napoleonic Europe: Austria and the Greek revolution of 1821-30", Journal of Modern European History, 21/2 (2023), pp.251-265
“The Austrian political police abroad in the age of revolutions, 1830-67: a microhistorical approach”, Central Europe, 21/1 (2023), pp.20-35
“Transnational Policing after the 1848-49 Revolutions: The Habsburg Empire in the Mediterranean”, European History Quarterly, 50/3 (2020), pp.412-437
“Political Refugees of the 1848-49 Revolutions in the Kingdom of Greece: Migration, Nationalism and State-formation in Nineteenth century Mediterranean”, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 37/1 (2019), pp.1-33
“Lives in exile: Foreign political refugees in early independent Greece (1830-53)”, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, 43/2 (2019), pp.243-261
“Afterlives of Enlightened Absolutism: Commemoration of Maria-Theresa and Joseph II in the Politics of Liberal Reformin Late Imperial Austria”, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire, 26/2 (2019), pp.305-330
“The Greeks and Transnational Political Policing in Europe during the Age of Revolutions”, in: Nikos Christofis, Leonidas Moiras, Alekos Lamprou (eds.), The Greek War of Independence. Impact, Perceptions, and Transformation Within and Beyond the Empire (New York-Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2026), pp.209-232
“The Training of the Security Corps and the “State of Lawfulness”, 1944-1967”, in: Christos Aliprantis, Panayis Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Uniformed Societies, 1944-2024. Contemporary Sociological and Historical Approaches (Athens: Patakis, 2026, in Greek), pp.121-154
with Panayis Panagiotopoulos, “Approaching the Uniformed Corps in the 20th and 21st century. Introductory Observations from the Viewpoint of Sociology and History”, in: Christos Aliprantis, Panayis Panagiotopoulos (eds.), Uniformed Societies, 1944-2024. Contemporary Sociological and Historical Approaches (Athens: Patakis, 2026, in Greek), pp.13-49
with Anna Ross, “Introduction”, in: Anna Ross, Christos Aliprantis (eds.), State-Making in An Age of Revolution, 1830-1880 (London: Liverpool University Press/British Academy, 2025), pp.1-14
“Extraterritoriality, political policing and the origins of military intelligence in Central Europe, 1815-1871”, in: Anna Ross, Christos Aliprantis (eds.), State-Making in An Age of Revolution, 1830-1880 (London: Liverpool University Press/British Academy, 2025), pp. 220-243
"Policing political dissidence in Mediterranean port-cities during the long Age of Revolutions (1815-1871)", in: Laura DiFiore, Elisabetta Abignente (eds.), Spies in European Culture between Reality and Tales (1815-1914) (London: Bloomsbury, 2025), pp.59-81
with Christopher Clark, "Greece and 1848: Direct responses and underlying connectivities", in: Paschalis M. Kitromilides (ed.), The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848). Reappraisals and comparisons (London-New York: Routledge, 2021), pp.95-108