London School of Economics and Political Science
Ph.D., International History
London School of Economics and Political Science
M.Sc., European History and Politics
University of Athens
B.A., History and Archaeology
Eirini Karamouzi is a Professor of Contemporary European History at The American College of Greece and an Associate Professor of Contemporary History at the University of Sheffield. She has held fellowships at the London School of Economics, Yale University, University of Oxford, University of Tampere and the European University Institute. She is the author of Greece, the EEC and the Cold War: The Second Enlargement (2014), co-editor of The Balkans in the Cold War (2017), and co-editor of Beyond the Euromissiles: The Global Histories of Anti-nuclear Activism (2025). She has published extensively in the Journal of Contemporary History, Cold War History and in the International History Review on issues related to the history of European integration, democracy, and protest in Southern Europe, as well as Greek foreign policy. She co-directs an AHRC network grant on global anti-nuclear activism and a Laskaridis-funded project on US–Greek relations in the “Metapolitefsi” (1974-2024). Her current research project, supported by the Onassis Foundation and Research England, deals with the historical role of tourism in Greece’s nation branding.
(co-authored with) D. Chorchoulis, Greece’s Foreign Policy in the 1980s (Papadopoulos, 2026) [in Greek]
“Reimagining Greece: Tourism, Modernization, and National Identity after the Second World War,” in S. Katsikas (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek History (Oxford University Press, 2026)
‘Terrorism, Civil Aviation, and US–Greek Relations: The Hijacking of TWA Flight 847.” Diplomatic History, 50/1 (January, 2026)
(co-edited with) L. A. Brunet, Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War (Berghahn Books, 2025)
(co-authored with) D. Grealy, “Selling the Junta Abroad: PR Campaigns and UK–Greek Relations during the Wilson Government, 1967–69,” Contemporary British History, 38.3 (2024): 383-403
(co-authored with) M. Pontiki & Y. Krasonikolakis, “Historical Portrayal of Greek Tourism through Topic Modeling on International Newspapers,” in Proceedings of the 8th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities and Literature (LaTeCH-CLfL 2024), 121-132
Greece’s Association to the EEC and the Role of Ioannis Pesmazoglou (National Bank of Greece, 2023) [in Greek]
“Negotiating the American Presence in Greece: Bases, Security, and National Sovereignty,” The International History Review, 44.1 (2022): 129-144
(co-edited with) S. Rajak, K. E. Botsiou & E. Hatzivassiliou, The Balkans in the Cold War. (Springer, 2017) Greek trans: Τα Βαλκάνια στον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο (Athens, 2019)
Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979. The Second Enlargement (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)