Kostis Kornetis joined the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies in September 2012 as Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow. He holds a doctorate in History and Civilization (European University Institute, Florence), an M.A. with Distinction in Southeastern European History (University College London), a B.A. in War Studies and Modern Greek (King’s College London), and a Vordiplom in History and Political Science (L.M.U., Munich). He spent research periods in France (Sorbonne/EHESS) and Spain (Salvador de Madariaga scholarship) and he was Visiting Global Scholar in History and Film Studies at NYU in 2001. Between 2007 and 2012, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor in History at Brown University. His research interests include the history of European authoritarian regimes and social movements in the 20th century, political cinema, as well as the analysis of oral testimonies. He has worked extensively on the history and memory of the 1960s, the methodology of oral history, and the use of film as a source for social and cultural history. His book Children of the Dictatorship: Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the Long 1960s in Greece was published by Berghahn Books in 2013.
