The Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) is a scholarly organization for modern
Greek
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Greece
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studies in
North America. It was founded in 1968.
It is interdisciplinary, covering language, history, politics, economics, society, and the arts of modern Greece, broadly defined.
The MGSA sponsors the ''
Journal of Modern Greek Studies
The ''Journal of Modern Greek Studies'' is an academic journal founded in 1983, and is the official publication of the Modern Greek Studies Association. It is devoted to the study of social, cultural, and political affairs in modern Greece, define ...
'' (1983- , , e-), the only scholarly periodical to focus exclusively on modern Greece. It covers Greek history, society, politics, and culture from the late
Byzantine period
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to the present. ''
Choice Reviews
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'' has praised it as "a magnificent scholarly journal".
Its biennial symposia are a focus for scholars of modern Greece in North America.
List of presidents
The following have served as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association:.
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* 1970-73: Edmund Keeley
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* 1974-76: John A. Petropulos
* 1977-79: A. Lily Macrakis
* 1980-82: Edmund Keeley
Edmund Leroy "Mike" Keeley (February 5, 1928 – February 23, 2022) was an American novelist, translator, and essayist, a poet, and Charles Barnwell Straut Professor of English at Princeton University. He was a noted expert on the Greek poets C. ...
* 1983-85: Peter Bien
* 1986-88: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros
* 1988-90: Van Coufoudakis
* 1991-92: Michael Herzfeld
* 1993-95: Adamantia Pollis
* 1995-97: John Chioles
* 1997-99: Van Coufoudakis
* 2000-02: Peter Bien
* 2003-05: Thomas Gallant
* 2006-11: Stathis Gourgouris
* 2011-14: Gonda Van Steen
* 2014-17: Neovi Karakatsanis
* 2017-20: Franklin L. Hess
References
External links
MGSA official site
also available online a
MUSE (by subscription)
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Modern Greek studies
Learned societies of the United States