Lily Macrakis

Dean of Hellenic College

Lic. Phil.,  University of Athens-Archaeology and History
Institut Francais-Professorat de Francais-French Language and Literature
A.M.,  Radcliffe College-History
Ph.D.,  Harvard University-History

Lily Macrakis is the Academic Dean and a Professor of Modern European and Greek History at Hellenic College. Brookline, MA. since 2002. A graduate of the University of Athens, Dr. Macrakis received her Ph.D. from Harvard University in Modern European and Balkan History. From 1962 to 2002 she was Professor of Modern European and Greek History at Regis College, in Weston, MA, .while also serving as Chairman of the Department of History for twenty years. She has taught as visiting professor at Harvard University, Boston College, the University of Crete and the University of the Aegean. As a Bunting Institute Fellow in Cambridge and later as a Fulbright Scholar in Greece she conducted research and wrote a study on the early life of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos for which she was awarded the Biography Prize by the Academy of Athens. Her other publications include. "An Annotated Bibliography on Modern Greek History" (2000)"The MGSA Bulletin", editor and contributor, "Women and Men in Greece," co-editor (1983), "New Trends in Modern Greek Bibliography", co-editor and contributor (1982),"A Profile of Cretan Civilization" in Nelles Guide (1990), and several articles on modern Greek subjects. She has served as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) and as Chairman of its biennial symposia while contributing articles and book reviews in its periodical Modern Greek Studies. Through her work and publications she hoped to promote Modern Greek Studies in this country, a field not well-known in the US at the time of the creation of the MGSA.

Curriculum Vitae pdf

Courses: 

• Ancient Greek History and Culture
• Modern Greek History (1453 to the present)
• Modern European History (1789 to the present)
• World History
• Travels in Greece - Landscape and Culture
• The Writer as Historian