Eirini Karamouzi, PhD
Professor, Associate Dean of Research & Innovation, Humanities Department, Frances Rich School of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (FRSAHSS) – Deree
Other Affiliation: Associate Professor in Contemporary European History - University of Sheffield
CONTACT INFO
EDUCATION
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
Research Area
Cold War History, modern Greek history, tourism, cultural heritage, peace movements, Greek-American diaspora.
Biography
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 (Berghahn, 2025). She has published extensively in the Journal of Contemporary History, Cold War History, and 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.
Select Publications
Books
- Greece’s foreign policy in the 1980s (Papadopoulos: Athens, 2026) (co-author Dionysis Chourchoulis) [in Greek]
- Greece’s Association to the EEC and the role of Ioannis Pesmazoglou (Bank of Greece: Athens 2023) [in Greek]
- Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979. The Second Enlargement (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014)
Edited Volumes
- Brunet, L. A., & Karamouzi, E. (Eds.). (2025). Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War. Berghahn Books.
- Rajak, S., Botsiou, K. E., Karamouzi, E., & Hatzivassiliou, E. (Eds.). (2017). The Balkans in the cold war. Springer. Translated also in Greek: Τα Βαλκάνια στον Ψυχρό Πόλεμο (Athens, 2019)
Special Issues
- ‘Selling Mediterranean Europe: tourism and national identity’, Journal of Tourism History (co-editor with Mary Ikoniadou and Gelina Harlaftis, forthcoming in 2026)
- ‘Historical Dimensions of Anti-Nuclear Activism in Africa’, The Thinker, 100:3 (2024) (co-editor with Anna-Mart Van Wyk and Luc Brunet).
- ‘Confronting the Past: The role of the European historian today’, Contemporary European History, 32:1 (2023) (co-editor with Emile Chabal)
Journal Articles
- Karamouzi, E. (2026). Terrorism, civil aviation, and US Greek relations: the hijacking of TWA flight 847. Diplomatic History.
- Karamouzi, E., Pontiki, M., & Krasonikolakis, Y. (2024, March). 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) (pp. 121-132).
- Karamouzi, E., & Grealy, D. (2024). Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK–Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967–69. Contemporary British History, 38(3), 383-403.
- Karamouzi, E. (2022). Negotiating the American presence in Greece: bases, security and national sovereignty. The International History Review, 44(1), 129-144.
- Karamouzi, E. (2021). ‘Out With the Bases of Death’: Civil Society and Peace Mobilization in Greece During the 1980s. Journal of Contemporary History, 56(3), 617-638.
- Karamouzi, E., & Chourchoulis, D. (2019). Troublemaker or peacemaker? Andreas Papandreou, the Euromissile Crisis, and the policy of peace, 1981–86. Cold War History, 19(1), 39-61.
Book Chapters
- ‘Reimagining Greece: Tourism, Modernization, and National Identity after the Second World War’, in Katsikas, Stefanos (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Modern Greek History (Oxford University Press, 2026)
- ‘Mobilising the World against Nuclear Weapons: Anti-Nuclear Activism since the 1970s’, in Nuti, Leopoldo and Ostermann, Christian (eds.), The Cambridge History of Nuclear Age (Cambridge, forthcoming, 2026) (co-author Luc-Andre Brunet).
