Dr. Christos Aliprantis

Short Bio

I am an Associate Professor of Political Science and International Relations, as well as Interim Executive Director of the Michael and Kitty Dukakis Center for Public and Humanitarian Service at Anatolia American University. 

I studied history in Athens, Vienna, and Budapest, and earned his Ph.D. in modern European history from the University of Cambridge, writing my dissertation on the origins of transnational political policing in Europe during the Age of Revolution, 1830-1870. 

Prior to joining Anatolia American University, I was a Max Weber Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, a Marie Sklodowska Curie Research Fellow at Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Associate at Ruhr University Bochum, and an Early Career Fellow at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University in Greece. While at Anatolia, in 2025, I also served as a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at George Washington University and as a Visiting Research Fellow at the Seeger Center of Hellenic Studies at Princeton University.

In addition to my interest on the early history of transnational security and policing, I also conducted research afterwards on policing and intelligence during the Cold War investigating coercive state institutions in postwar Greece as well as Greek-US police and security relations from the Cold War to the present.