Dr Konstantina Maragkou is a Senior Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow. She received her PhD and an MPhil from the University of Cambridge and a BA in Modern History, Economic History and Politics from the University of London. Between 2008 and 2014, she was a lecturer in Modern European History at Yale’s History Department and has also held fellowships at the LSE’s Hellenic Observatory, Princeton University, New York University’s Remarque Institute and the Hellenic Foundation for Foreign and European Policy (ELIAMEP).
Her research interests include Human Rights, the Cold War in the Balkans, Southern European dictatorships, Western Europe since 1945, and Modern Greek History. Her current project investigates the impact of the Greek Colonels’ dictatorship (1967-74) on the rise of the international human rights movement.
Dr Konstantina Maragkou teaches the following courses:
At undergraduate level:
HY116 - International History since 1890