(a) British Policy in SE Mediterranean (17th-19th centuries); (b) Greek Historiography and History of Ideas; (c) Nationalism, Identities and Anthropological Approaches of History; (d) Social and Economic History of the Balkans (e) Environmental History
Title of Appointment: Modern History
DPhil, Oxford University (St. Antony’s College),1988
Rank:Professor
Sector:Modern and Contemporary History, Folklore, and Social Anthropology
Telephone: 2310997470
Fax: 2310997266
Email: vkg@hist.auth.gr
Cooperation Hours: TU 11:00-13:00 WE 15:00-16:00
Office: 401
Short CV:
Basil C. Gounaris (Vasileios K. Gounaris) is Professor of Modern History (2009), Director of the Laboratory for the Auxiliary Sciences of History (2018) and Chair (2019) at the Dept. of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He holds a BA (1983) in History and an MA (1985) in Modern and Medieval I History from AUTH and a DPhil (1988) from Oxford University (St Antony’s College), where he studied on a scholarship by the Ismene Fitch Charitable Trust (1985-88). From 1990 to 2001 he was the Director of the Centre for Macedonian History & Documentation in Thessaloniki (Museum of the Macedonian Struggle). From 2000 to 2005 he taught Social and Economic History as Associate Professor at the Department for Balkan Studies (University of Western Macedonia). In 2009-10 he was Visiting Professor at King’s College, University of London and in 2013 Senior Visiting Scholar (Onassis Foundation USA) at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, George Washington and York (Canada). From 2011 to 2015 he was the Dean of Humanities and member of the Governing Board at the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki. Since 2012 he is a member of the AUTH Quality Assurance Unit and Counselor of Education at the Hellenic Open University. He served as full member (2014-2020) and as Deputy Chair (2018-2020) of the Sectorial Scientific Council (Arts and Humanities) of the National Council for Research and Innovation and is (since 2018) member of the Advisory Committee of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. He is also member of the editorial board of the journals: Clio (2004-), Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2009-13), Südost-Forschungen (2015-), national representative and board vice-chair (2021-23) of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (Council of Europe). He is the single author of eight monographs, dozens of peer-reviewed articles and the editor of eight collective volumes. Two of his monographs have been awarded by the Academy of Athens. In 2019 he won an award of excellence for his contribution to the study of Humanities by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Basil C. Gounaris (Vasileios K. Gounaris) is Professor of Modern History (2009), Director of the Laboratory for the Auxiliary Sciences of History (2018) and Chair (2019) at the Dept. of History and Archaeology, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He holds a BA (1983) in History and an MA (1985) in Modern and Medieval I History from AUTH and a DPhil (1988) from Oxford University (St Antony’s College), where he studied on a scholarship by the Ismene Fitch Charitable Trust (1985-88). From 1990 to 2001 he was the Director of the Centre for Macedonian History & Documentation in Thessaloniki (Museum of the Macedonian Struggle). From 2000 to 2005 he taught Social and Economic History as Associate Professor at the Department for Balkan Studies (University of Western Macedonia). In 2009-10 he was Visiting Professor at King’s College, University of London and in 2013 Senior Visiting Scholar (Onassis Foundation USA) at Yale, Princeton, Columbia, George Washington and York (Canada). From 2011 to 2015 he was the Dean of Humanities and member of the Governing Board at the International Hellenic University in Thessaloniki. Since 2012 he is a member of the AUTH Quality Assurance Unit and Counselor of Education at the Hellenic Open University. He served as full member (2014-2020) and as Deputy Chair (2018-2020) of the Sectorial Scientific Council (Arts and Humanities) of the National Council for Research and Innovation and is (since 2018) member of the Advisory Committee of the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation. He is also member of the editorial board of the journals: Clio (2004-), Journal of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies (2009-13), Südost-Forschungen (2015-), national representative and board vice-chair (2021-23) of the Observatory on History Teaching in Europe (Council of Europe). He is the single author of eight monographs, dozens of peer-reviewed articles and the editor of eight collective volumes. Two of his monographs have been awarded by the Academy of Athens. In 2019 he won an award of excellence for his contribution to the study of Humanities by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
Excavations Research:
2011 Subject: The Heroes of the Hellenes. The afterlife of the irregular wars.
Description: A project of research and authorship
Funding: Foundation of the Greek Parliament
Role: Coordinator of a team of five historians
Budget: 10,000 Euros
Deliverables: conference, editor Ήρωες των Ελλήνων. Οι καπετάνιοι, τα παλικάρια και η αναγνώριση των εθνικών αγώνων (Athens: Idryma tis Voulis, 2014), pp. 337.
2014-15 Subject: Μines, olives and monasteries (ranking 1st of 110 proposals)
Description: An 18 month project of research, authorship and dissemination.
Funding: General Secretariat for Research and Technology
Role: Principal investigator (team of 28 senior and junior researchers)
Budget: 178,000 euros.
Deliverables: 11 papers, GIS, documentary, conference, seminars, lectures, edited volume Mines, Olives and Monasteries: Aspects of Halkidiki’s Environmental History (Thessaloniki: Epikentro & Faros, 2015), σ. 327.[1]
2019-2020 Subject: A Demon to Trust: Refashioning the ‘Greek Genius’ in Modern Times
Description: A 24 month project of research, authorship and dissemination.
Funding: Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation.
Role: Principal investigator (team of 18 senior and junior researchers)
Budget: 180,000 euros.
Deliverables: 18 papers, GIS, documentary, conference, seminars, lectures, edited volume (in progress)
2019-2021 Member of the Greek (AUTH) Research Team, Strengthening European Integration through the Analysis of Conflict Discourses: RePast - Revisiting the Past, Anticipating the FutureRepast Horizon 2020.
[1]https://repository.ihu.edu.gr/xmlui/bitstream/handle/11544/12425/Mines,%...
Links: academia.edu
Selected Publications:
- “Unwanted Legacies: Greece and the Great War”, Othon Anastasakis, David Madden and Elizabeth Roberts (επιμ.), Balkan Legacies οf the Great War. The Past is Never Dead (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), σ. 66-80.
- Εισαγωγή και επιμέλεια Mines, Olives and Monasteries: Aspects of Halkidiki’s Environmental History (Θεσσαλονίκη: Επίκεντρο και Φάρος, 2015).
- “The Alexei Obrescoff Case: The Levantine Backstage of British Mediation in the Russo-Turkish War (1768-74)”, The International History Review, 38.4 (2016), 675-693.
- «Η πειρατική επιδρομή του 1826 στη Χαλκιδική και η άγνωστη μάχη της Ορμύλιας», Μακεδονικά, 42 (2017), 513-520.
- «‘Σύνδεσμος Ελλήνων Αξιωματικών’ (1906): Τα πρώτα βήματα του στρατιωτικού κινήματος», Νεοελληνικά Ιστορικά, 5 (2018), 279-302.
- “Blood Brothers in Despair: Greek Brigands, Albanian Rebels and the Greek-Ottoman Frontier, 1829-1831”, Cahiers balkaniques, 45 (2018), 191-216.
- (με τη Marianna D. Christopoulos), “Reassessing the Greek National Schism of World War I: The Ideological Parameters”, The Historical Review, 15 (2018), 235-268.
- «Καλοί Χριστιανοί αλλά απρόθυμοι σύμμαχοι: Η αγγλική πολιτική κατά τον Κρητικό Πόλεμο», Θεματικὸς τόμος: Ὁ Κρητικὸς Πόλεμος (1645-1669). Ὄψεις τοῦ πολέμου στὸν χῶρο καὶ τὸν χρόνο, Στέφανος Κακλαμάνης (ἐπιμ.) Κρητικὰ Χρονικὰ 39 (2019), 15-27.
- Δεν είν’ ο περσινός καιρός… Έλληνες κλεφταρματολοί και αλβανοί στασιαστές, 1829-1831 (Αθήνα: Εθνικό Ίδρυμα Ερευνών, 2019).