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Dr. Nikos Michailidis

Dr. Nikos Michailidis completed his PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University, and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Boğaziçi University in Turkey, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Panteion University in Greece. He has years of experience as a professor at Princeton University and the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and is a dedicated educator and mentor. His particular interests and skills are in speech-writing, political analysis, Greek philosophy, and ethnography. Dr. Michailidis has contributed think-pieces to the biggest newspapers in Greece and has also been a political pundit on news programs in Greece.

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Dr. Vicky Hioureas

Dr. Vicky Hioureas completed her PhD in History from Princeton University, and holds Master’s degrees in Classics and Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of California, Irvine and King’s College London, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. Classical literature, philosophy, history, and argumentation are some of her greatest interests, and she enjoys sharing this passion with her students.

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Nikolaos Michailidis Photo

Dr. Nikos Michailidis

Dr. Nikos Michailidis completed his PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University, and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Boğaziçi University in Turkey, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Panteion University in Greece. He has years of experience as a professor at Princeton University and the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and is a dedicated educator and mentor. His particular interests and skills are in speech-writing, political analysis, Greek philosophy, and ethnography. Dr. Michailidis has contributed think-pieces to the biggest newspapers in Greece and has also been a political pundit on news programs in Greece.

Vicky's photo

Dr. Vicky Hioureas

Dr. Vicky Hioureas completed her PhD in History from Princeton University, and holds Master’s degrees in Classics and Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of California, Irvine and King’s College London, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. Classical literature, philosophy, history, and argumentation are some of her greatest interests, and she enjoys sharing this passion with her students.

The feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic
Patrick Leigh Fermor, English Writer
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
The light of Greece opened my eyes,
penetrated my pores,
expanded my whole being.
Henry Miller, American writer
We are all Greeks. Our laws, our literature,
our religion, our arts have their root in Greece”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, English Poet
As you set out for Ithaka
hope your road is a long one,
full of adventure, full of knowledge.
Ithaca, Constantinos P. Cavafy
Education is the kindling of a flame,
not the filling of a vessel
Socrates
The sea was sapphire coloured, and the sky burned
like a heated opal through the air;
We hoisted sail; the wind was blowing fair.
For the blue lands that to eastward lie.
Oscar Wilde, Writer