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John Sakkas (London, 23 August 1965) is Professor of Modern History in the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean, Greece. He earned his BA in history from the Aristoteleio University of Salonica in 1988 and his doctorate from the University of Hull. His Ph.D.(1993) was supervised by the famous British historians John Saville, E. P. Thompson and Eric Hobsbawn. He also holds an MA in Social History from Lancaster University (1989).

His research focuses on modern history with an emphasis on the Mediterranean and the Middle East.He is the author of "Britain and the Greek Civil War, 1044-49. British Imperialism, Public Opinion and the Coming of the Cold War" (Verlag, 2013) and of articles in Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, Études Helléniques/Hellenic Studies, Thetis etc. Since 2015 he has been director of the Postgraduate Program "Government, Development and Security in the Mediterranean" at the Department of Mediterranean Studies, University of the Aegean.

He has been appointed to the Academic Board of the Defense and Security College and of its Doctoral School, Brussels, and to the Historical Royal Society in Britain. He has lectured in various European Universities through Erasmus and undertaken projects relating to the geopolitics in the Middle East. He is also a regular collaborator of the European Commission in evaluating and monitoring European research projects.

In recent years he studies poetry and its relation with history and philosophy. In 2018 he published in Greek his poetic collection entitled 'The Gates of the Roads of Day and Night".