Fevronia K. Soumakis

Candidate statement

Fevronia K. Soumakis holds a PhD in History and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and currently teaches in the Modern Greek Program at Queens College, CUNY, where she is affiliated with the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. Her research interests include the history of education, immigration and ethnicity, and religion and education. Fevronia is the co-editor with Theodore G. Zervas of Educating Greek Americans: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Pathways (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) and is currently working on her next book project which examines the history of Greek American women, education, and philanthropy in the twentieth century. Her work on education and Greek Americans has appeared in The Greek Revolution and the Greek Diaspora in the United States (Kaliambou, ed., 2023) and Redirecting Ethnic Singularity: Italian Americans and Greek Americans in Conversation (Anagnostou, Kalogeras, and Patrona, eds., 2021). Fevronia has served as a member of the Transnational Studies Committee of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA). She has held leadership positions in Division F- History and Historiography of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), having served as Program Chair, Mentoring Chair, and Book Awards Committee Chair. Fevronia is the 2019 recipient of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Fellowship and is twice a recipient of the Queens College Open Educational Resources Fellowship (2019 and 2022).