Dr Eirini Karamouzi
MSc, PhD, (London School of Economics)
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History
Full contact details
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
91Ö±²¥
S3 7RA
- Profile
-
I joined the University of 91Ö±²¥ in September 2014. I hold an MSc in European Politics and Governance and a PhD in International History, both from LSE. I have held a A.G. Leventis Fellowship at SEESOX, St Anthony's College, Oxford (2014-15), a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence (2013-14) and a Pinto Postdoctoral fellowship at LSE IDEAS (2011-12).
Before moving to 91Ö±²¥, I was a Lecturer of European Studies and History at Yale University and in 2019-2021, I was a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Tampere, Finland.My first book reveals the rationale behind Europe's decision to accept Greece in its circle and details the dynamics of the accession negotiations in the evolving environment of detente and the rise of the Left in Southern Europe.I am an expert in the history of European integration, Cold War, political and social history of Modern Greece, and Southern Europe.My second project focused on peace movements and the role of activism in nuclear policy. I was Principal Investigator of the two-year project (2016-2018), 'Protest as democratic practice: peace movements in southern Europe, 1975-1990' (Max Batley Fellowship Awards scheme) with Prof Ziemann and Prof Grasso (Politics). Dr Giulia Quaggio was the Postdoctoral fellow of the project. I published different pieces in International History Review, Journal of Contemporary History and Cold War History.Along with Luc-Andre Brunet we are running an AHRC networking grant (2022-2024) on ‘Global Histories of anti-nuclear activism in the Cold War’. We have published a special issue on Anti-nuclear activism in South Africa, and an edited volume (Berghahn, 2025), accompanied by a Open Learn MOOC on the same topic.My latest research looks at the role of tourism as an alternative way of telling Greece’s post-war social, economic and cultural history, and I am cooperating with visual arts and heritage experts, as well as graphic designers and architects to build a Digital Exhibition on ‘Imagining Greece’.
- Publications
-
Books
- . Palgrave Macmillan.
- Greece's Association Agreement to the EEC: the view of negotiations from the Ioannis Pesmazoglou archives. Athens: Bank of Greece.
Edited books
- Beyond the Euromissile Crisis Global Histories of Anti-Nuclear Activism in the Cold War. Berghahn.
- . Palgrave Macmillan.
Journal articles
- . Contemporary European History, 32(1), 1-2.
- . Cold War History.
- . Journal of Contemporary History.
- . Cold War History, 19(1), 39-61.
- . Contemporary European History, 25(3), 439-458.
- A Strategy for Greece: Democratization and European Integration, 1974-1975. Cahiers de la Méditerranée, 90, 11-24.
- . Diplomacy & Statecraft, 24(4), 597-618.
- . Cold War History, 11(2), 287-288.
- . Cold War History, 9(4), 547-549.
- Selling the junta abroad: PR campaigns and UK-Greek relations during the Wilson government, 1967-69. Contemporary British History.
- Historical Portrayal of Greek Tourism through Topic Modeling on International Newspapers. ACL Anthology.
- Rethinking southern Europe: society, networks and politics. Contemporary European History.
- Negotiating the American Presence in Greece: Bases, Security and National Sovereignty in the 1980s. International History Review.
Chapters
- , The European Experience (pp. 383-392). Open Book Publishers
- , The European Experience: A Multi-Perspective History of Modern Europe (pp. 383-371).
- Taking a stance The European Community and the Greek junta, GREEK JUNTA AND THE INTERNATIONAL SYSTEM: A CASE STUDY OF SOUTHERN EUROPEAN DICTATORSHIPS, 1967-74 (pp. 110-123).
- In Dujardin V, Bussière E, Ludlow P, Romero F, Schlenker D & Varsori A (Ed.), The European Commission 1986-2000 : History and memories of an institution (pp. 528-535). Publications Office of the European Union
- In Rajak S, Botsiou K, Karamouzi E & Hatzivassiliou E (Ed.), The Balkans in the Cold War Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan UK.
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 144-168). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 14-34). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 87-116). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 169-183). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 63-86). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 1-13). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 184-195). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 117-143). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974–1979 (pp. 35-62). Palgrave Macmillan UK
- Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979 The Second Enlargement Introduction, GREECE, THE EEC AND THE COLD WAR, 1974-1979: THE SECOND ENLARGEMENT (pp. 1-+).
- Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979 The Second Enlargement Conclusion, GREECE, THE EEC AND THE COLD WAR, 1974-1979: THE SECOND ENLARGEMENT (pp. 184-195).
- Telling the whole story: America, the EEC and Greece in the 1970s In Varsori A & Migani G (Ed.), Europe in the International Arena during the 1970s. Entering a different World (pp. 355-374). 2011: Peterlang.
- Routledge
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
- , Greece, the EEC and the Cold War 1974-1979 Palgrave Macmillan
Book reviews
- . Social History, 42(1), 131-133.
Conference proceedings papers
- At last, our voice is heard in the world’: Greece and the Six Nation Initiative during the Euromissile Crisis. Margins for Manoeuvre The Influence of Smaller Powers on the Cold War Era
- Taking a stance: The European Community and the Greek junta Eirini Karamouzi. The Greek Junta and the International System A Case Study of Southern European Dictatorships, 1967-74. London
Other
- Fighting for Peace: Greece, Italy and Spain in the 1980s. Fighting for Peace: Greece, Italy and Spain in the 1980s.
- . Palgrave Macmillan.
- Research group
-
Research supervision
- Current Students
- Completed students
-
- Carla Gutierrez Ramos - Organised Labour and Nationalism in the Long 1970s: Class, Democracy and the Sub-state Nations of Scotland and Galicia
- Teaching activities
-
Undergraduate:
- HST112 - Paths from Antiquity to Modernity
- HST117 - The Making of the Twentieth Century
- HST287 - From World War to Cold War: Europe 1945-1968
- HST3144/45 - Ending the Cold War in Europe 1973-1991
Postgraduate:
- HST6062 - Cold War Histories
- Professional activities and memberships
-
- - Editor
- - Editorial Board
- - Fellow
- - Co-Director
- - Executive Board
Previous administrative roles:
- Deputy Director of Research
- Level 2 Tutor
- Member of Postgraduate Committee
- Theme Leader, ThinkCreate
- Public engagement
I am involved in a project on at LSE IDEAS. I co-edited a report on and have contributed to History Matters blog.
Along with Dr Sarah Miller-Davenport and colleagues from the English department we ran the Cultures of the Cold War network. Each year we host a distinguished visiting speaker series: Rethinking the Cold War in cooperation with LSE IDEAS.
This exciting new initiative is a collaboration between the at LSE IDEAS and the network at the University of 91Ö±²¥, two leading centres in the UK for the study of the Cold War. This lecture series will bring prominent academics to present their latest research on the Cold War at both universities. Drawing on a range of approaches, including political, social, cultural, and social aspects of the Cold War, this initiative aims to deepen our understanding of the Cold War and to foster fruitful intellectual exchange both within the UK and internationally.
In November 2019, I curated an exhibition ‘’ at the Hellenic Parliament Foundation that ran for a year. It was accompanied by the publication of a bilingual catalogue, a series of educational programs for schools with more than 3000 students attending, and a series of events with universities across the country.
The exhibition was inaugurated with the President of the Hellenic Parliament.
In the media:
I have provided expert comment to Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and talked about Greece and Europe to BBC radio 5, BBC 91Ö±²¥ and Monocle.
Contributing to Kathimerini on historical issues pertaining to Greece, the Balkans and the EU.
I wrote a piece for the Royal Historical Society:
Dr Eirini Karamouzi discusses this issue and her book, ‘Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979. The Second Enlargement’. 
A Three Question Interview with Eirini Karamouzi 
Greece and EEC membership: Was it a mistake?