Sakis Gekas

Candidate statement

Sakis Gekas (incumbent) (ΒΑ History, Ionian University; ΜΑ, Ph.D. History, University of Essex) joined York University as the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in 2009-10 teaching history of Modern Greece (including the summer abroad course in Greece), Greek migration and diaspora in the 20th century and courses in Mediterranean and European history. Sakis has published Xenocracy. State, Class and Colonialim in the Ionian Islands 1815-1864 (Berghahn 2017), and articles in Mediterranean Historical Review, the European Review of History, Historein, Ίστωρ and Μνήμων. In 2012 he co-founded the Greek Canadian History Project and helped ‘build’ the virtual museum of Greek immigration to Canada (Immigrec). Sakis served at the MGSA Executive Board in 2011-17 as chair of the Digital Communications and Social Media committee, and member (2013) and chair (2015) of the Symposium program committee; if elected again to the MGSA Executive Board, Sakis will be honored to contribute to the Publications committee and the Transnational Studies committee, help again with the organization of the Symposium, and overall represent Toronto and Canada at the MGSA and promote the goals of the Association.