Spyros A. Sofos is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at Southeast European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College, University of Oxford.
He has previously worked as a Senior Research Fellow at Kingston University where he set up and directed the University’s MSc in International Conflict, and at the University of Portsmouth. He has been a NATO Research Fellow and has taught Human Rights and Humanitarian Action at the University of Siena, Multiculturalism and Interethnic Relations at Tartu University, and Greek-Turkish Relations at Istanbul Bilgi University.
He has advised and worked with a number of NGOs on conflict transformation projects and has co-founded a not-for-profit organization promoting respect and understanding of cultural alterity in Southeastern Europe. His areas of research and practical expertise include conflict analysis and conflict transformation, post-conflict institutional architecture, identity, nationalism and interethnic conflict.
He has written extensively on Southeastern European politics, Turkey and on European Muslim communities. Spyros is editor of a book Series on Islam and Nationalism published by Palgrave Macmillan (with Umut Özkirimli) and of the Journal of Contemporary European Studies.
Selected publications:
- Changing identities in South East Europe, Palgrave Macmillan 2013. (with Othon Anastasakis and Renée Hirschon)
- Islam in Europe: Civic Networks and Public Spaces, Palgrave Macmillan 2012 [with Roza Tsagarousianou]
- Το βάσανο της Ιστορίας, Καστανιώτης 2008
- Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey
, London: Hurst and NY: Columbia University Press 2008. (with Umut Özkirimli)
- Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe
, Routledge 1996. (with B. Jenkins)
- Beyond the intractability of the Greek-Macedonian Dispute (contributor), Skopje 2012
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Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey – by Spyros A. Sofos |
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Nation and Identity in Contemporary Europe – by Spyros A. Sofos |
