Courses

•  KIA-H-3 Political and Social History of Modern Greece (from the  Eastern Question to the Macedonian Question) Post-graduate seminar course

•  I -220 Modern Greek History

•  I-267 Modern European History

•  PA/S-026: Historical Demographics

Biography

Spyros Karavas was born on the island of Chios in 1954. He studied history at the University Lumieres-Lyon 2 (France) and was awarded his Ph.D. by the same University in 1989. Since 1990, he has taught History in the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean. He specializes in modern and contemporary political history. His research interests and publications concern Modern Greek history (19^th and 20^th centuries) and, more specifically, issues of historical demography and electoral behaviour, the geography of Greek national claims in relation to the role undertaken by the Greek national historian, Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos, as well as the Macedonian Question and its historiography.

Selected Publications

2001: "Le campagne elettorali in Grecia (1844-1967)", Memoria e Ricerca, Rivista di storia contemporanea, vol. 8, July-December 2001, special issue: La campagna elettorale nell' Europa mediterranea, pp. 51-77.

2002: "The ethnographic adventures of Hellenism (1876-1878)", part I (1876-1877), Ta Istorika, vol. 19, no. 36, June 2002, 23-74 (in Greek).

2003: "The ethnographic adventures of Hellenism (1876-1878)", part II (1877-1878), Ta Istorika, vol. 20, no. 38, June 2003, pp. 49-112(in Greek).

2004: "Konstantinos Paparrigopoulos and the territorial demands of the nation (1877-1885)", Historiography of modern and contemporary Greece, 1833-2002, Acts of the 4^th International History Conference, ed. Paschalis M. Kitromilidis - Triantafyllos E. Sklavenitis, Athens, KNE-EIE, 2004, pp. 149-169 (in Greek).

2006: "The tale of Penelope Delta and the secrets of the Macedonian Struggle", in P. S. Delta: Contemporary approaches to her work, ed. A.P.  Zannas, Athens, Estia, 2006, pp. 193-289 (in Greek).

2008:  "Great Bulgaria and the 'little idea", in <<In the year..>> 1878 / 1922, Athens, Society for Students of Modern Greek Culture and General Education, Founder: Moraitis School, 2008, pp. 11-81 and appended texts pp. 143-168 (in Greek).

2010: "Blessed are they who shall possess the earth". Land-ownership plans for expropriating consciences in Macedonia, 1880-1909, Athens, Vivliorama, 2010 (in Greek).