Tom Papademetriou

Candidate statement

Tom Papademetriou (incumbent) currently serves as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association having begun his term during the Covid pandemic and leading the MGSA during its successful 2022 Toronto Symposium. Papademetriou is the Constantine and Georgiean Georgiou Endowed Professor of Greek History at Stockton University. His research focuses on non-Muslims under Ottoman rule, and he teaches the history of the Ottoman Empire and modern Greece. As Director of the Dean C. and Zoë S. Pappas Interdisciplinary Center for Hellenic Studies, he leads a collaborative of six endowed Hellenic Studies professors, works with university administration, is liaison to the Greek-American community, and raises funds. He established the Constantelos Hellenic Collection and Reading Room, assisted in establishing foreign exchange agreements with universities in Athens, Thessalonike, and Nicosia, has organized international symposia in Delphi, Istanbul, and Nicosia, and a travel seminar at the Centre for Asia Minor Studies. He co-chaired the Local Arrangements Committee when Stockton University hosted the 25th Symposium of MGSA in 2017.