Patrikiou Alexandra

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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