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Name: Alexandra Position: Assistant Professor
Surname: Patrikiou Subject: History of Education
Email: apatrikiou@upatras.gr Phone: 2610 969748

Dr Alexandra Patrikiou received her Bachelor’s degree from the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete and postgraduate degrees in European Studies from Panteion University (2003) and King’s College, London (2005). In 2012 she completed her PhD thesis, «Representations of the Old Continent. The “dialogue” of Europe in Greece, 1941-46», at Panteion University of Athens. She has been awarded the State Scholarship for Modern Greek History (2006-2009), a scholarship from the Foundation for Education and European Culture, Nikos and Lidia Tricha (2010-11) and a library research grant for Princeton University, funded by S.J. Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Under the supervision of Alexis Dimaras she has prepared an exhibition for school books (2010) and the publication of the collected works of Alexandros Delmouzos (Language is only a means to an end, Athens 2014). From 2017 to 2023 she worked as a senior researcher at the Jewish Museum of Greece, responsible for the teaching about the Holocaust in primary and secondary education. She has published in edited volumes and academic journals and she has participated in conferences in Greece and abroad. Her main research interests focus on various aspects of the social history of 20th century Greece, as well as the ways of teaching them in the classroom.

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Dr Alexandra Patrikiou received her Bachelor’s degree from the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete and postgraduate degrees in European Studies from Panteion University (2003) and King’s College, London (2005). In 2012 she completed her PhD thesis, «Representations of the Old Continent. The “dialogue” of Europe in Greece, 1941-46», at Panteion University of Athens. She has been awarded the State Scholarship for Modern Greek History (2006-2009), a scholarship from the Foundation for Education and European Culture, Nikos and Lidia Tricha (2010-11) and a library research grant for Princeton University, funded by S.J. Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Under the supervision of Alexis Dimaras she has prepared an exhibition for school books (2010) and the publication of the collected works of Alexandros Delmouzos (Language is only a means to an end, Athens 2014). From 2017 to 2023 she worked as a senior researcher at the Jewish Museum of Greece, responsible for the teaching about the Holocaust in primary and secondary education. She has published in edited volumes and academic journals and she has participated in conferences in Greece and abroad. Her main research interests focus on various aspects of the social history of 20th century Greece, as well as the ways of teaching them in the classroom.

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Education:
  • October 2005–July 2012: PhD thesis, Panteion University of Political and Social Sciences, Athens; title: ‘Representations of the Old Continent. The ‘dialogue’ for Europe in Greece, 1941-1946’; (distinction).
  • September 2003–September 2004: Master of Arts in European Studies, King’s College, London; (merit).
  • September 2002–September 2003: Postgraduate Program of Studies ‘European Union and Developing Countries’ organized by the International Relations Institute of the Panteion University of Athens and the 2nd Jean Monnet Chair of European Union; (18,5/20).
  • September 1998–September 2002: Bachelor of Arts in Modern and Contemporary History, Department of History and Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Crete (8,02/10).
Position – Subject:

Assistant Professor in the Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work, University of Patras. Subject: History of Education in Greece
Scientific fields of interest:

History of Education, Didactics of History, History of Jews of Greece, History of the Holocaust, Social history
Employment history:

Professional and Research experience (selection) 

  • Patra, March 2023 – : Assistant Professor, Department of Education and Social Work, University of Patra.
  • Athens, January 2017 – 2023: Head of Holocaust Education and Research, Jewish Museum of Greece.
  • Athens, April 2017 –: Adjunct Lecturer, Sports Studies: History, Sociology, Anthropology (Postgraduate Course), Hellenic Open University, Greece.
  • Athens, July – December 2017: Interviews, conducted for Freie Unversitat, Berlin, program “Memories of Occupation in Greece”.  
  • Athens, February 2013 – June 2014: Post-doctoral Researcher on History of Ideas and Education, University of the Peloponnese funded by the Greek State and the European Union. 
Main research work:

Teaching Experience

  • “Social and Political Functions of Physical Education”, postgraduate course, Sports Studies: History, Sociology, Anthropology, Hellenic Open University, Greece 
  • “History of the Greek Jewry, 19th-20th century”, undergraduate course, Political Science and History Department, Panteion University (2017).
  • “Views on the Idea of unified Europe, 19th – 20th century”, Post-Graduate Seminar, Political Science and History Department, Panteion University (2014– 2016).

Publications (selection)

  • “Escaping the Death Train: The Survival Strategies of Errikos Botton”, Henning Borggräfe and Akim Jah (eds), Deportations in the Nazi Era, De Gruyter 2022, pp. 383-401 (in English). 
  • “They Should Leave: Jews as Enemies of New Europe in the Collaborationist Press of Thessaloniki, 1941-43″, in Despoina Papadimitriou and Serafim Seferiadis (eds.), Unknown Aspects of History. Papers Dedicated to Giani Gianoulopoulo, Athens 2012, pp. 245-258 (in Greek).
  • «’Europe of the New Europe’. Representations of the Old Continent in a collaborationist newspaper of Salonica, 1941-1944», Istor (15), 2007: 107-139 (in Greek).
Postgraduate:
Undergraduate:

Alexandra Patrikiou teaches three undergraduate courses:

Modern and Contemporary Greek History (ESW_415)

Didactics of History (ESW_352)

History of Education in Greece (ESW_129)

More information about these courses (in Greek) you may find here.
  • “The Oral History Archive of the Jewish Museum of Greece: Creation and Prospects”, E. Hekimoglou and G. Antoniou (eds), On Greek Jewry, Athens: Alexandria, 2002, pp. 221-230. [in Greek]
  • “A Microcosm in the Center of Athens: The Jewish Primary School of Athens (1940-43)”, Dokimes (forthcoming). [in Greek]
  • “Massacres of Jewish Populations in 1821” in A. Klapsis et al. (eds.), 1821: The Greek War of Independence, Vol. B: The Revolution on the Battlefields, Athens: Pedio, 2021, pp. 74-77. [in Greek]
  • “Jewish Political Union Party” (entry) in Katerina Dede, Leonidas Kallivretakis, Lina Louvi, Ilias Nikolopoulos, and Sotiris Rizas (eds.), Historical Dictionary of Greek Parliamentary Parties, 1844-1967, EIE and Vouli Foundation, 2022. [in Greek]
  • “‘When Reality Surpasses Imagination’: Educational Visits to the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum”, Contemporary Issues, issues 150-151-152, 2021, pp. 62-70. [in Greek]
  • “Evdoxios Doxiadis, State, Nationalism and the Jewish Communities of Modern Greece” (Book Review), Historein, 2019, vol. 18, no. 1 (doi.org/10.12681/historein.18705).
  • “Volker Prott, The Politics of Self-Determination: Remaking Territories and National Identities in Europe, 1917-1923” (Book Review), The Historical Review/La Revue Historique, 2017, vol. 14, pp. 257-259.
  • Alexandra Patrikiou and Haris Athanasiadis, “Towards the Road of True Pedagogy for the Youth of the Nation. School Conflicts in the Public Sphere (1900-1901)”, Issues in the History of Education, 2017, pp. 100-123. [in Greek]
  • “On the Historiography of the Language Question”, Historein, vol. 16, nos. 1-2: Greek Historiography in the 20th Century. Opening a Research Agenda, 2017, pp. 102-119.
  • Alexandra Patrikiou and Philip Carabott, “The Practice of Hostage-Taking and its Interpretations: An Initial Approach”, in Polymery Voglis et al. (eds.), December 1944: The Past and its Uses, Athens: Alexandria, 2017, pp. 193-219. [in Greek]
  • Greece of Modernity. Social Crises and Ideological Dilemmas, edited by Kaiti Aroni-Tsichli, Stefanos Papageorgiou, and Alexandra Patrikiou, Papazisis, Athens, 2014. [in Greek]
  • Alexandros Delmouzos Collected Works. Language is Only a Means, supervised by Alexis Dimaras and edited by Alexandra Patrikiou, Society for the Study of Modern Greek Culture and General Education and Institute of Neohellenic Studies/Manolis Triantafyllidis Foundation, Athens, 2014. [in Greek]
  • “Revisiting the ‘Trial of the Accents’ During the Occupation” in Kaiti Aroni-Tsichli, Stefanos Papageorgiou, and Alexandra Patrikiou (eds.), Greece of Modernity. Social Crises and Ideological Dilemmas, Papazisis, Athens, 2014, pp. 187-205. [in Greek]
  • “Axis New Europe” in Artemis Psaromiligkos and Vasiliki Lazou (eds.), From Hitler’s New Europe to Merkel’s Eurozone, vol. a, special supplement of the Investor newspaper (January 12, 2013), pp. 29-49. [in Greek]
  • “The Ties that Bind the Balkan Peoples”, Turkish Review, 4/3: 352-3.
  • “Views on the Quisling and In-exile ‘New Europe’: The Greek Case, 1941-44”, in Teresa Pinheiro, Beata Cieszynska, and Eduardo Franco (eds.), Ideas of/for Europe. An Interdisciplinary Approach to European Identity, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2012, pp. 303-312.
  • “The Greek Delegation at the Hague Congress”, in Jean-Michel Guieu and Christophe Le Dréau (eds.), The Congress of Europe at The Hague (1948-2008), Euroclio, P.I.E. Peter Lang, Brussels et al., 2009, pp. 223-232.
  • “Expulsion: Jews as Enemies of the New Europe in the Occupied Press of Thessaloniki, 1941-43”, in Despina Papadimitriou and Serafeim Seferiadis (eds.), Unseen Aspects of History. Texts Dedicated to Giannis Gianoulopoulos, Assini, Athens, 2012, pp. 245-258. [in Greek]
  • “Searching and Not Finding It: Seeking the True Identity of Textbooks”, Artists and Writers in Readers, 1860-1960, National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation, Athens, 2010, pp. 13-17. [in Greek]
  • “For the Day After the War: The ‘Dialogue’ on Europe in Athenian Newspapers of 1940”, in “In the Year…” 1936 – 1894 – 1940, Society for the Study of Modern Greek Culture and General Education, Athens, 2009, pp. 229-256. [in Greek]
  • “‘Europe of the New Europe’: Depictions of the Old Continent in a Quisling Newspaper of Thessaloniki, 1941-44”, Istor 15 (2009), pp. 213-245. [in Greek]
  • “A ‘New’ Historical Period in the Making: Aspects of Public Discourse in the Newspapers Nea Evropi and Apogevmatini in Occupied Thessaloniki”, in The Underground Press in Northern Greece, Document Exhibition – Symposium Proceedings, Cultural Foundation of the Union of Daily Press Journalists of Macedonia-Thrace, Thessaloniki, 2009, pp. 138-148. [in Greek]