• Fotini Asimakopoulou

    AsimakopoulouBasic Information:

    Title: Professor
    Area of Specialization: History

    Contact details:

    Phone No: 210-3688ο54
    Φαξ: 210-3688057

    E-mail: fasimakop@ecd.uoa.gr

    Contact address: Navarinou 13a, 3th floorNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens Department of Early Childhood Education

    Academic information

    Education
    Undergraduate studies:

    • 1983. Panteios University.

    Postegraduate studies:

    • 1989. Diplôme d’Études Approfondies (D.E.A.), Paris 1–Panthéon–Sorbonne.
    • 1996. Ph.D., Paris 1–Panthéon–Sorbonne.
     

    Research interests

    • History of ideas: Racial Theories (19th century)
    • History of the Balkans (19th century)
    • History of Greek engineers and their role in the modernization of Greece (19th/early 20th c.).
     

    Courses and Seminars

    Undergraduate

    • Greek history, 19th century
    • Greek history, 20th century
    • Methodological issues in historical science
    • History and illustrated books
    Graduate

    • Nation, ‘race’, education
     

    Selected Publications
    Books

    • Gobineau et la Grèce, Peter Lang, series “Studien zur Geschichte Südosteuropas”, v. 15, 1999.
    • «The Muslim minority in Thrace», in F. Assimakopoulou & S. Christidou-Lionaraki, The Muslim minority in Thrace and the Greek–Turkish relations, Athens, Livanis-Nea Synora, 2002, pp. 209-350 (in Greek).
    • The Archive of Alexander Lykourgos (1827-1875), Archbishop of Syros and Tenos. Introduction, extensive summaries of his correspondence and comments, vol. A΄, Preface by Michael B. Sakellariou, ed. Academy of Athens, Modern Greek History Research Centre, Athens 2014, 734 pp. (in Greek) (in collaboration with Elisabeth Kontogiorgi).
    • Athos and Panslavism, Introduction and commented edition of archival material, Archive of Alexander Lykourgos (in Greek), ed. Academy of Athens, Modern Greek History Research Centre (transcription of archival material by Vallia Rapti) (forthcoming).

    Articles

    • «Arthur de Gobineau and Jacob Philipp Fallmerayer: two allies» (in Greek), Ta Istorika, 31 (1999): 331-348.
    • «Arthur de Gobineau commenté par Alexis de Tocqueville», The Tocqueville Review / La Revue Tocqueville, XXII-2 (2001): 197-219.
    • «Éducation et politique au XIXe siècle: Les élèves grecs dans les Grandes Écoles d’ingénieurs en France», in Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu and al. (eds), Multicultural Science in the Ottoman Empire, series “Collection de Travaux de l’Académie Internationale d’Histoire des Sciences”, v. 69, Turnhout, Brepols, 2003, pp. 121-138 (in collaboration with K. Chatzis).
    • «Students in France engineers in Greece. The word of the Greek engineers, 19th/early 20th c.» (in Greek), Neoellinika Istorika, KEINE’s journal/Academy of Athens, 1 (2008): 111-130 (in collaboration with K. Chatzis).
    • «Élève en France, enseignant en Grèce. Les enseignants de l’École polytechnique d’Athènes (1837-1912) formés dans des écoles d’ingénieurs en France», in A. Cardoso de Matos, M. P. Diogo, I. Gouzévitch and A. Grelon (eds), The quest for a professional identity: engineers between training and action, Lisbon, ed. Colibri/CIDEHUS-UE/CIUHCT, 2009, pp. 25-41 (in collaboration with K. Chatzis and Anna Mahera).
    • «Implanter les “Ponts et Chaussées” européens en Grèce: le rôle des ingénieurs du corps du Génie, 1830-1880», special issue «Agustín de Betancourt y Molina (1758-1824)», in Quaderns d’Història de l’Enginyeria, 10 (2009): 331-350 (in collaboration with K. Chatzis and Georgia Mavrogonatou).
    • «Dutrône (1796-1867) “Défenseur des faibles et des opprimés”, un faiseur de projets à l’âge romantique», Neoellinika Istorika, KEINE’s journal/Academy of Athens, 2 (2010): 229-269 (in collaboration with K. Chatzis).
    • «Technical terminology in the military journals of the 19th century: the question of interpretation» (in Greek), 3 (2013) Neoellinika Istorika, KEINE’s journal/Academy of Athens, 3 (2013): 219-240.
    • «The ‘pure’ society: from Gobineau to the Greek society of the 21st century», in Efi Avdela et al. (eds.), Racial theories in Greece. Reception and uses in sciences, politics, literature and art history during the 19th and 20th centuries, Irakleio, University of Crete Editions and Editions of the School of [Filosofiki Sxoli] of the University of Crete, 2017, pp. 175-214.
    • «The Spread of Gobineau’s Racial Ideas to Greece in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries», στο Giuseppe Motta (ed.), Dynamics and Policies of Prejudice from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-first Century, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, pp. 219-234.
    • «Charles Hippolyte de Paravey (1787-1871), un scientifique légitimiste et catholique au XIXe siècle», (forthcoming in Almagest).

     

    Additional Information

    • 1988-1989 & 1994-1996. Fellowship for PhD Research of the ‘Leventis-Foundation’, Paris.
    • 1991-1994. Fellowship for PhD Research of the ‘Onassis Foundation’, Athens.
    • 1997-2007. Collaborator at the project Education of the Muslim Minority Children in Thrace (co-financed by the European Union and the Greek Ministry of Education).
    • 2009-10 and 2012-13. Research Visitor at the CAPHÉS, C.N.R.S./École Normale Supérieure, Paris.
    • 2003-2013. Collaborator at the project Archbishop of Syros Alexandros Lykourgos (1827–1875) archive, Academy of Athens.
    • 2018-present. Μember of the Executive Board of the Historical Archive of the University of Athens.