Fevronia K. Soumakis

Candidate statement

Fevronia K. Soumakis (incumbent) is the Director of the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College, CUNY. She holds a PhD in History and Education from Teachers College, Columbia University and has taught a wide range of courses at both Columbia University and Queens College. She is the co-editor with Theodore G. Zervas of Educating Greek Americans: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Pathways (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). 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 is currently the Secretary of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2023-2026) and is Associate Editor (Humanities) of the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (2024-2027).