Katerina Lagos

Candidate statement

Katerina Lagos is Professor of History and Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento. She is a modern Greek historian with expertise in the interwar period, minorities, education, fascism, dictatorships, and Jewish history. She has published several book chapters and articles, including “Forced Assimilation or Emigration: Sephardic Jewry in Thessaloniki, 1917–1941" (2015)”, "Interwar Greece: Its Generals, a Republic, and the monarchy" (2020) and "Patterns of Uncontrolled Borrowing and Defaults: Contextualizing the Greek Economic Crises of 1843, 1893, and 2010” (2021). Her book publications include a co-edited volume with Othon Anastasakis, The Greek Military Dictatorship 1967-1974: Revisiting a Troubled Past (Berghahn, 2021), a monograph entitled The Fourth of August Regime and Greek Jewry, 1936-1941 (Palgrave, 2023), and is currently working on a second co-edited volume with Christine Philliou entitled The Greek Revolution: Ottoman Transits and the Modern World. From 2016-2022, Katerina was the social sciences book review editor for the Journal of Modern Greek Studies. Additionally, Katerina served on the MGSA Executive Board from 2014-2020, and was Vice-President from 2017-2020. In 2019, Katerina hosted the MGSA international symposium in Sacramento, California. She is especially proud of securing a $20,000 grant to bring international participants to the 2019 MGSA symposium in Sacramento. She strongly supports junior scholars and enjoys organizing academic conferences.