Katerina Lagos

Candidate statement

Katerina Lagos (incumbent) is Professor of History and Director of the Angelo K. Tsakopoulos Hellenic Studies Program at California State University, Sacramento and the current President of the MGSA. 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 has two forthcoming edited volumes on the Greek Revolution and Greek environmental history. 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 two $20,000 grants to bring international participants to the 2019 and 2024 MGSA symposia. She strongly supports junior scholars and enjoys organizing academic conferences.