RESEARCH SECTION I: CULTURAL HISTORY
CO-ORDINATOR: Panagiotis Michailaris, Research Director

The section focuses upon the history of ideas, science and arts in the Greek world since 1453 as reflected in the fields of literary history, and the history of science, historiography, political ideas, religious painting, geographical culture and cartography. These are the main themes of research activities here, carried out since the establishment of the Department.

1) LITERARY HISTORY (15th-20th c.) (Ourania Polycandrioti, Senior Research Associate; Sophia Matthaiou, Junior Research Associate; George Tolias, Reasearch Director ; Anna Tabaki, Guest Research Associate; Alexandra Sfoini, Research Associate)
2) HISTORIOGRAPHY (15th-20th c.) (Triantafyllos Sklavenitis, Research Director; Ioannis Koubourlis, Guest Research Associate)
3) HISTORY OF SCIENCE (15th-20th c.) (Efthymios Nikolaidis, Research Director; Yannis Karas, Research Director Emeritus; Giorgos Vlachakis, Guest Research Associate)
4) GEOGRAPHICAL CULTURE AND HISTORY OF CARTOGRAPHY (George Tolias, Research Director)
5) RELIGIOUS ART (15th-19th c.) (Eugenia Drakopoulou, Senior Research Associate; Eleni Charchare, Guest Research Associate)
6) INSTITUTIONS AND IDEOLOGY IN MODERN GREEK SOCIETY (15th-19th c.)
(Panagiotis Michailaris, Research Director; Machi Paizi-Apostolopoulou, Research Director; Dimitris Apostolopoulos, Research Director Emeritus; Giouli Evangelou, External Research Fellow)