Distinctions and Awards

Researchers of the Institute of Historical Research (IHR) consistently stand out for the high level of their scholarly work, which is recognized both in Greece and internationally. Over the past five years, members of the IHR have been honored with important awards, fellowships, and appointments to academic committees and international organizations, underscoring the Institute’s ongoing presence and contribution to historical research and the humanities.

Awards and Distinctions of IHR Researchers (2020–2025)

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Dimitris Apostolopoulos

Academy of Athens Award (without a corresponding call) for his overall research work (2024)

Honorary Doctorate from the School of Classical and Humanities Studies, Democritus University of Thrace (2023)

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Anastasia G. Yangaki

“Avrilia Komninou” Award of the Class of Letters and Fine Arts of the Academy of Athens for her study “‘Speaking Ceramics’: Bacini as Containers of Hidden Messages and Expressions of Memory,” Byzantina Symmeikta 32 (2022), Supplement, pp. 1–122
(https://ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/bz/article/view/29676)

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Christina Kokkinia

Elected Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute, Berlin (2020)

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Sophia Kremydi

Archer Milton Huntington Medal Award of the American Numismatic Society (ANS) for outstanding contribution to numismatic scholarship (2021)

“Georgios Oikonomou” Award of the Academy of Athens for her monograph Autonomous Coinages under the Late Antigonids

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Machi Paizi

Honorary Doctorate from the Department of Greek Philology, Democritus University of Thrace (2024)

Fellowships

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Dimitra Andrianou

Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (2024–2025)

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Myrina Kalaitzi

Visiting Research Fellowship at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, for her research project The Sculptures of the “Tomb of Aristeus” in the Southwestern Necropolis of Ancient Zeugma/Seleukeia (2026)

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Nikolaos Livanos

Visiting Research Fellowship at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University, for his project “Diplomatic Edition of the Corpus of Greek Documents of the Monastery of Dionysiou on Mount Athos, 1500–1800” (2025)