Christina Koulouri - Biography#

Professor in Modern and Contemporary History and Rector of Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences (Athens, Greece). She studied at the University of Athens (Department of History and Archaeology), the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne where she also received her PhD. She was Senior Research Fellow at Université de Paris I-Panthéon-Sorbonne (2010), Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University (2017) and at the University of Regensburg (2019). Awarded with the Nikos Svoronos Prize (1993), the Delphi Prize (2012), and the Vikelas Plaque (2018).

Coordinator of many national and international research projects. From 1999-2016, she was the chair of the History Education Committee of the Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE) and general coordinator of the Joint History Project (JHP). Recently, coordinator of the project “Realms of memory of the Greek Revolution, 19th -20th centuries” (funded by the Hellenic Parliament Foundation for Parliamentarism and Democracy, 2017-2020) and co-cordinator of the project The forgotten decades: Greek-German relations from the late 1950s to the 1980s - University partnership between Panteion University of Athens and the University of Regensburg, funded by DAAD (2020-2022). Since 2020, member of ESETEK, the advisory council on research and innovation to the government of Greece.

Lecturer at many international conferences in Greece, Western and Southeast Europe, USA, Japan and China. Author of several books and articles on the teaching of history, the history of historiography, school textbooks, national identity, public history and the history of sports and the Olympic Games. She is also the editor of six workbooks (alternative educational materials) for the teaching of modern and contemporary history in Southeast Europe which have been translated into ten languages. Among her publications are Dimensions idéologiques de l'historicité en Grèce (1834 - 1914). Les manuels scolaires d'histoire et de géographie, Frankfurt, Studien zur Geschichte Südosteuropas 7, 1991; Sport et société bourgeoise. Les associations sportives en Grèce 1870-1922, Paris : L’Harmattan, 2000, 301 p. Her last book received the National Essay Prize in Greece and was translated in English: Historical Memory in Greece, 1821-1930. Performing the Past in the Present (Routledge 2022).