- Giannakopoulos, G. (2021). A world safe for empires? A. J. Toynbee and the internationalization of self-determination in the East (1912–1922). Global Intellectual History, 6(4), pp. 484–505. doi:10.1080/23801883.2018.1527185.
- Gazi, E., Giannakopoulos, G. and Papari, K. (2021). Rethinking Hellenism: Greek Intellectuals Between Nation and Empire, 1890–1930. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 39(1), pp. 163–189. doi:10.1353/mgs.2021.0008.
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2020). Re-staging the ‘Eastern Question’: Arthur J. Evans and the search for the origins of European civilization in the Balkans. History of European Ideas, 46(5), pp. 601–613. doi:10.1080/01916599.2020.1746081.
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2020). An Age of Ages: Nation, Empires and their Discontents. Contemporary European History, 29(2), pp. 232–242. doi:10.1017/s0960777320000016.
- GIANNAKOPOULOS, G. (2018). “MAKE BRITAIN GREAT AGAIN”: ANGLO-AMERICAN THOUGHT AND WORLD POLITICS IN THE AGE OF EMPIRES. Modern Intellectual History, 15(2), pp. 593–606. doi:10.1017/s1479244316000378.
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2018). Internationalism between national questions and imperial considerations: Henry Noel Brailsford and the transformations of Central and Eastern Europe (1898–1919). History of European Ideas, 44(2), pp. 244–259. doi:10.1080/01916599.2017.1381858.
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2016). Depicting the pain of others: Photographic representations of refugees in the Aegean Shores. Journal of Greek Media & Culture, 2(1), pp. 103–113. doi:10.1386/jgmc.2.1.103_1.
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2016). A British International Humanitarianism? Humanitarian Interventions in Eastern Europe (1875–1906). Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 34(2), pp. 299–320. doi:10.1353/mgs.2016.0028.
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Overview
Georgios is historian of international relations with a focus on nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain and Southeastern Europe. He is especially interested in the entwined trajectory of nationalism, empire, and internationalism in the first half of the twentieth century.
Georgios studied history and politics in Greece (Panteion University) and holds a PhD in Modern History from Queen Mary University of London. Prior to joining City he held research and teaching posts in Greece (University of the Peloponnese, Academy of Athens), Slovakia (Slovak Academy of Sciences), the USA (New York University) and the UK (Durham University, Edinburgh University, Anglia Ruskin University, King’s College London and the LSE).
He is a member of the Royal Historical Society and he serves in the executive committees of the Modern Greek Studies Association in the UK and the Greek Politics Specialist Group.
Qualifications
- PhD, Queen Mary University of London, UK, 2015
Employment
- Lecturer in Modern History, City University of London, Jan 2022 – present
Memberships of committees
- External Activities Officer, Greek Politics Specialist Group, Political Science Association, Oct 2021 – Oct 2023
- https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/1468229X, Journal "History", Oct 2021 – Dec 2022
- Executive Committee Member, Society for Modern Greek Studies, Jan 2021 – Dec 2022
Languages
English (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review), French (can read, speak and understand spoken), German (can read and understand spoken) and Greek, Modern (1453-) (can read, write, speak, understand spoken and peer review).
Expertise
Geographic Areas
- Europe - Southeast
- Europe - Western
Publications
Publications by category
Book
- Briggs, V., Paul, J., Giannakopoulos, G., Jensen, M.L. and Karstadt, E. (2012). Governing Diversities Democracy, Diversity and Human Nature. Cambridge Scholars Pub. ISBN 978-1-4438-3985-3.
Chapter
- Giannakopoulos, G. (2015). “Once upon a time in Asia Minor: Arnold and Rosalind Toynbee's Frames of the Greco-Turkish War in Anatolia (1919-22)”. Camera Graeca Photographs, Narratives, Materialities Ashgate. ISBN 978-1-315-57076-1.
Journal articles (8)
Professional activities
Online articles (2)
- Five things you should know about the Ottoman Empire. (2022). the Conversation
- Greece’s Fight for Independence Was Part of a Global Revolutionary Movement. (2022). Jacobin