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Graduate Studies
The SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies supports advanced study opportunities at the MA and PhD level through partnerships with the Departments of Global Humanities, History, and Archaeology.
Research topics
SFU faculty members of the SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies are available to supervise research topics on Hellenic themes from antiquity, through the Byzantine and Ottoman periods, to modern-day Greece. Students apply and are registered through the departments of Humanities, History and Archaeology. Thanks to our many generous donors, graduate students working with our faculty receive comprehensive funding and institutional support packages that give them the tools they need to succeed both inside and outside the academy.
Explore your options
Contact one of our members below, about your proposed research topic.
Evdoxis Doxiadis
- Topics: Modern Greece; Social history; Gender; Minorities; Mediterranean history; and Balkan history
- Current students: Naz Vardar (PhD History)
Evan Freeman
- Topics: Byzantine and medieval art and architecture, icons and their modern receptions
Sabrina Higgins
- Topics: Late Antique Egypt; Marian Studies; Early Christian architecture; Religious transformation; Sacred landscapes; Greco-Roman religions; and Byzantine art and monastic archaeology
- Current students: Aurora Camaño (PhD Archaeology) and Goran Sanev (PhD Archaeology)
James Horncastle
- Topics: Refugee and Migration Studies; Modern History of Greece; International Relations; Yugoslav Studies; Identity Formation
- Current students: George Gikas (MA Global Humanities)
Dimitris Krallis
- Topics: Byzantine Studies; Social, political, economic and intellectual history; and Modern reception of Byzantium
- Current students: Jovana Andjelkovic (PhD History), Juliette Halliday (MA History), Ethan Schmidt (PhD Individualized Interdisciplinary Study), Nine Houle (MA Global Humanities)
Spyros Sofos
- Topics: Collective action; nationalism, Islamism and Populism - Cultural and Political Dimensions; Islam and the "West" - History, and Muslim Communities in Europe and North America; Conflict (with a particular interest in the Middle East and SE Europe); Turkish and Greek Politics and Culture; Critical theory
- Current students: George Gikas (MA Global Humanities)
For information about program requirements and admissions, please visit the Graduate Studies website, or contact the admitting department (Global Humanities, History or Archaeology) directly.
Past students
- Mete Oguz, PhD History (2023): "Looking beyond the Queen of Cities: A Study of Roman Paphlagonia in the Middle Ages." Supervised by Dimitris Krallis.
- Tiffany VanWinkoop, MA, History (2021): "Blueprints of Power: Roman Statecraft and Politics in Konstantinos VII's Book of Ceremonies." Supervised by Dimitris Krallis.
- Aleksandar Jovanović, PhD, History (2019): "Michael VIII Palaiologos and the Nikaian Generation: Roman Political Culture in the Years of Exile." Supervised by Dimitris Krallis.
- Jeffrey Greenall, MA, History (2019): "Acting Virtuously: Ceremonial Displays of Imperial Virtue in Byzantium." Supervised by Dimitris Krallis.