Nicholas Doumanis

Nicholas Doumanis is a historian of Europe and the Mediterranean world. Born in Australia in 1964, he studied at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, where he acquired his PhD.

Nicholas is Hellenic Foundation and Illinois Chair in Hellenic Studies and Professor of History at the University of Illinois Chicago. He was an associate professor of history at the University of New South Wales, an ARC Research Fellow at the University of Sydney, and lecturer in European history at the University of Newcastle. He was awarded the Fraenkel Prize (London) in Contemporary European History for [https://www.amazon.com/Myth-Memory-Mediterranean-Remembering-Fascisms/dp/0333682327 ''Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean''], a book which was later translated into Italian by Il Mulino press under the title [http://ilmiolibro.kataweb.it/schedalibro.asp?id=489422 ''Una Facia Una Razza'']. He has also published: ''Italy, Inventing the Nation'' with Arnold Press, [http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/a-history-of-greece-nicholas-doumanis/?K=9781403986139 ''A History of Greece''] with Palgrave Macmillan, which covers the span of Paleolithic to contemporary Greece, and [http://global.oup.com/academic/product/before-the-nation-9780199547043;jsessionid=B5900B88A6134C506628DD32614EC486?cc=us&lang=en& ''Before the Nation''] with Oxford University Press, which describes everyday life in the late Ottoman Greek world. He edited 'The Oxford Handbook of Europe 1914-1945'' ''in 2016, and most recently co-authored'' The Edinburgh History of the Greeks, 20th and early 21st centuries: Global Perspectives ''with Emeritus Professor Antonis Liakos of the University of Athens.'' ''He is now writing a history of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Palaeolithic to the present for Wiley Blackwell in its'' 'History of the World' ''series''. Doumanis is the Founder and Director of the Greek-Australian Archive of NSW, Australia, is a member of the Australian Committee for the Return of the Parthenon Sculptures, and was the editor of The Journal of Religious History. Provided by Wikipedia