Neovi M. Karakatsanis

Candidate statement

Neovi M. Karakatsanis (incumbent) is a Chancellor’s Professor of Political Science and Director of the Honors Program at Indiana University South Bend. Her work has appeared in South European Society and Politics, Armed Forces and Society, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Democratization, and Mediterranean Quarterly. She is the author of The Politics of Elite Transformation: The Consolidation of Greek Democracy in Theoretical Perspective and of American Foreign Policy towards the Colonels’ Greece: Uncertain Allies and the 1967 Coup d’État (with Jonathan Swarts). She has served as coeditor of the Journal of Political and Military Sociology and is currently a book review editor of Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters. A former President, Vice President, and Secretary of the Modern Greek Studies Association who has served in numerous other positions, including as Local Arrangements Chair and Program Committee Co-Chair for several MGSA Symposia, she will serve the MGSA and its members with enthusiasm.