Nicholas Doumanis

Nicholas Doumanis is a historian of Europe and the Mediterranean world. Born in Australia in 1964, he studied at the University of Sydney and the University of New South Wales, where he acquired his PhD.

Nicholas is currently a Professor of History and the Illinois Chair in Hellenic Studies at the University of Illinois Chicago. He was formerly an Associate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, and has lectured in European history at Macquarie University and the University of Newcastle. Nicholas is a recipient of the Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship at Princeton University. Doumanis was awarded the Fraenkel Prize (London) in Contemporary European History for Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean. He has since published: Italy, Inventing the Nation which was translated into Italian by Il Mulino press: Una Facia Una Razza, and more recently A History of Greece covering the span of paleolithic to contemporary Greece. His latest book is Before the Nation with Oxford University Press. Nicholas is currently editing The Oxford Handbook of Europe 1914-1945 and writing a history of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Bronze Age to the present for Wiley Blackwell in its History of the World series. Doumanis is the Founder and Director of the Greek-Australian Archive of NSW, Australia. Nicholas is also a member of the Australian Committee for the restitution of the Parthenon Marbles. Doumanis is also an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney, and was the former Senior Editor of The Journal of Religious History.