Anastassios (Tassos) Anastassiadis
Doctorat (Sciences-Po, Paris, 2006), Agr茅gation d'Histoire (2002)
Tuesday 3-4pm
I started studying theoretical physics. Eventually thinking about space-time led me to history. I obtained graduate degrees in the US and France in French linguistics (Middlebury College/Paris-X Nanterre), History (EHESS/Sciences-Po) and Political Science (Sciences-Po). Following a postdoctoral fellowship at the (EfA) I taught in France (Sciences-Po, EHESS, EPHE) before moving to 91黑料网鈥檚 History Dept in 2011. I also served as the EfA Directeur d鈥橢tudes for the early modern and modern eras between 2016 and 2020. Given the journey, it is only natural that I have an interest in all aspects of nomadism, in intercrossing frames of reference as well as in educational systems.
Research
I am a historian of human mobilities and institutional inertias varying approaches of social, conceptual and connected history. My first interests involve the study of transnational networks of activists (religious and educational) and their role in institutional change and state formation, especially with regard to Greece within its Balkan and Mediterranean context. My study on the interaction between Religion and State in Greece during the ottoman age of confessionalization (the long 19th c.) is (with upcoming Greek and English versions). Being sensitive to the questions of Open Science and Open Data in the age of Digital Humanities, I have made available the collected and treated data in the form of an . More traditionally I have also published three edited volumes (, and ) and am currently finishing a work on the transnational contours of educational innovation in the Eastern Mediterranean. My interest in mobilities and鈥� Montreal, have led me to pilot an interdisciplinary and international research project at the crossroads of oral history, digital storytelling-archiving and public history which led to the production of a . Finally, over five years I co-piloted a research project on the ; I curated an exhibition at the and the Villa Kerylos in Nice and co-edited its as well as an original GIS tool. A collective volume offering the state of the question is scheduled to be published soon.
Research supervision:
Eastern Mediterranean 1700s-1930s (with a preference on topics of mobilities; religious interactions; education; statehood and war; France and the Eastern Mediterranean); Greece and Greek diasporas in Canada 19th-21st c.
Recently Supervised students:
Phd:
Christos Konstantopoulos , A Forgotten Pandemic on a Forgotten Front: the Entente forces and the "Spanish" influenza on the First World War's Macedonian Front (2023-ongoing, FRQSC scholarship, Cotutelle EHESS, Paris)
Lukas Tsiptsios, Ambition imp茅riale et r茅alit茅 coloniale. De la Grande Id茅e 脿 la construction nationale en Mac茅doine : les projets des lib茅raux grecs du d茅but XXe si猫cle, 1904-1936 (2021-ongoing, FRQSC scholarship, Cotutelle Universit茅 de Normandie)
Dimitrios Machlouta, Organizing Resistance against Military Dictatorships: The Case of Greek political activism in Qu茅bec and France, 1967 鈥� 1974, (2020-ongoing, FRQSC scholarship, Cotutelle EHESS, Paris)
Yusuf Ziya Karabi莽ak, Local Patriots and Ecumenical Ottomans: The Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople in the Ottoman Configuration of Power during the Age of Revolutions, 1768-1828, (2014-2020, Cotutelle EHESS, Paris) Insight Arts Best Dissertation award, 91黑料网 Faculty of Arts, 2021
MA:
Theodore Aretakis, Intraethnic conflict and transethnic solidarity: Labour activism in Montreal鈥檚 鈥淕reek鈥� restaurants during the Quiet revolution, 2025-ongoing
Lucas Tsovras, Greek-canadian political activism in Quebec 1974-1995, SSHRC CGS-M scholarship, 2024-ongoing
Anthony Georgaros, The Orthodox Antimoderns: the Patriarchate of Constantinople and the Enlightenment Debate, 2023-ongoing
Grace Farran, Dance in Diaspora: The Making and Maintenance of Greek Identity through Dance in Montreal, 2023-2025
Stavroula Pabst, One (wo)man鈥檚 shopping is the same (wo)man鈥檚 history? Immigration, advertisement and consumption patterns in the Greek community of Montreal 1950s-1970s, 2017-2019
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As a historian of European and Mediterranean interactions and transactions I study the emergence of different modernities, between the 18th and mid 20th centuries. I teach entry level and lecture courses in European History ( HIST 215 - Modern Europe , , HIST 349 - Greece: From Ottoman to the EU , ). I also offer upper level thematic seminars on my specialization areas such as education (HIST 472 -History of European Education), or the Eastern Mediterranean ( HIST 436 - Topics: European History ), the history of state formation and institution building ( HIST 597D1 - Seminar: Modern Europe ), or the modern construction of Antiquity, i.e. a history of the development of archeology as a modern discipline, classics as an element of European education and culture, and tourism as a mass cultural consumption practice ( CLAS 404 - Classical Tradition , cross-listed as HIST 436 - Topics: European History ). Every now and then I like to honor some of my early career mentors and teach history of the Byzantine empire ( HIST 362 - Byzantine Hist&Historiography ), as well as the theory of historical practices and writing HIST 299 -The Historian鈥檚 Craft . I also offer more specialized courses on Modern Greek Culture and Society.