Dr Georgios Kazamias

Dr Georgios Kazamias

Visiting Senior Fellow

Hellenic Observatory

Room No
CBG 5.07
Languages
English, Greek
Key Expertise
Europeanisation, Economic History of Cyprus

About me

Georgios Kazamias, born Thessaloniki, Greece, 1964. BA 1987 (Thessaloniki, Greece), PhD 1990 (Bradford, UK). He is a Professor in Modern European History in the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus. Previous posts Balkan Studies Institute (Thessaloniki, 1993-94), University of Bradford, UK (1990-91, 1994-2000), University of Cyprus (2000-to date).

His research interests include Europeanisation, the history of the international relations of Greece and SE Europe (particularly in the second half of the 20th c.), Economic History of Cyprus (1878-1960), micro-history and oral history, digitisation of archives. His teaching interests include European History from the French Revolution till the 1990s and aspects of the contemporary history of Cyprus, including the Oral History of the 1974 Turkish Invasion of Cyprus.

He served as Dean of the School of Letters, University of Cyprus, 2011-2014.

His recent publications include,

Georgios Kazamias (2021). Η τουρκική εισβολή και ο ξεριζωμός των Κερυνειωτών μέσα από το αρχείο Προφορικής Παράδοσης του Κέντρου Επιστημονικών Ερευνών Κύπρου. Nicosia: Κέντρο Επιστημονικών Ερευνών Κύπρου. [The Turkish Invasion of 1974 and the uprooting of the Greek inhabitants of the region of Keryneia through the Oral History Archive of the Centre for Scientific Research], Nicosia, Centre of Scientific Research, 2021. ISBN 978-9963-0-8163-9. (in Greek),

and

Georgios Kazamias (2022). Η Ελλάδα και ο Πόλεμος της Κορέας (Greece and the Korean War). Athens: Εστία (Hestia Publishers). ISBN: 978-960-05-0000-0 . (Greek language).

A collective volume on Cyprus and the First World War (eds Η. Faustman - G. Kazamias) is forthcoming from Bloomsbury Publishing in 2024.