Dr Alexios Alecou Curriculum Vitae October 2016 ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus Adjunct Lecturer, Open University Cyprus Past Fellow, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London RESEARCH INTERESTS Postwar Greece and Cyprus Contemporary political history Colonialism and Britain Colonialism and De-Colonialization South European political history (parties, elections, institutions) EDUCATION PhD, POLITICAL HISTORY Department of Political Science and History Panteion University of Athens, January 2012 Degree: First class honours MA, POLITICAL SCIENCE & SOCIOLOGY Department of Political Science National Kapodestrian University of Athens, June 2005 Degree: First class honours Visitor studies at LSE (Scholarship of University of Athens) London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), April 2005 BA, POLITICAL SCIENCE & HISTORY Department of Political Science and History Panteion University of Athens, September 2003 Degree: Upper second PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS
Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of Social and Political Science, University of Cyprus (Sept. 2017-) Adjunct Faculty Member, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus (Sept. 2016-Jan. 2017) Visiting Lecturer, Open University Cyprus (Teaching: History of the Republic of Cyprus; Introduction to Sociology, Fall 2013- Jan. 2017) Visiting Lecturer, European University Cyprus (Teaching History of Cyprus, Fall 2012-spring 2014) Academic Consultant, Press and Information Office, Republic of Cyprus Coordinator of an EU co-funded project for the Digitalization of Cyprus newspapers, 1878-2013 (Jan. 2013-today) Ministry of Labour, Republic of Cyprus Coordinator of the EU co-funded project Introducing the Disability Evaluation System (ICF) in Cyprus. (2007-2012) Monographies Alecou, Alexios (2016). Communism and Nationalism in Postwar Cyprus, 1945-1955. Politics and Ideologies Under British Rule. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Editor in Edited Volumes Alecou, Alexios (ed.) (2016) Acceleration of History: War, Conflicts and Politics. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books Rowman & Littlefield. (forthcoming). The useful enemy: Essays on the construction of the Other [Ο Χρήσιμος Εχθρός: Δοκίμια για την κατασκευή του «Άλλου»]. Cyprus University Press, Nicosia. Other Books Alecou, Alexios (2012). 1948: Greek Civil War and Cyprus. Nicosia: Power Publishers. Alecou, Alexios (Ed.) (2016). The WWII through the Cypriot Press [Ο Β Παγκόσμιος Πόλεμος μέσα από τον Κυπριακό Τύπο]. Press and Information Office, Nicosia. ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS 1. Alecou, Alexios, Mavrou, Iosifina (2017) Refugees in Cyprus: Local Acceptance in the Past and Present. Social Sciences, 2017, 6(4), 111; doi:10.3390/socsci6040111
2. Alecou, Alexios (2016) Safeguarding through Stability: British constitutional proposals in post-war Cyprus. Journal of Human Rights in the Commonwealth, 2 (2), pp. 50-56. 3. Alecou, Alexios (2015) Enosis, the anticolonial movement and the referendum of 1950 [Ένωση, αντιαποικιακό κίνημα και το δημοψήφισμα του 1950]. History, Society and Politics Review, 1 (2015), pp. 67-88. 4. Alecou, Alexios (2015) Shaping Identities: The Cypriot Left and the Communist Party of Greece in the 1940s. Journal of Historical Sociology. DOI: 10.1111/johs.12102 5. Alecou, Alexios (2014). "The Church of Cyprus: Political Modulator and Financial Power". The International Journal of Humanities & Social Studies, 2 (7), pp. 171-181. 6. Alecou, Alexios (2014) British Law and Order in Cyprus. History Today, 64 (10), pp. 16-18. 7. Alecou, Alexios., Kapardis, Andreas. (2014). British Security: Confronting the communist and the nationalist threat in Cyprus, 1920-1955. Journal of European Academic Research, 2 (6), pp. 7112-7139. 8. Alecou, Alexios (2014) The Greek Civil War in Cyprus: Ideology, Tactics and the Division of Society. Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 23 (1), pp. 89-100. 9. Alecou, Alexios (submitted) Right-wing extremism: the case of post-war Greece and Cyprus. Commonwealth and Comparative Politics CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES 1. Alecou, Alexios (2017) Views of the Greek civil war in Cyprus, 1946-1949 [Όψεις του ελληνικού εμφυλίου στην Κύπρο, 1946-1949]. In The crucial decades of 1940 and 1950: Bicommunal and Intercommunal relations in Cyprus. Nicosia: Prometheus Research Institute. 2. Alecou, Alexios (2016). What accelerates History?. In A. Alecou (ed.), Acceleration of History: War, Conflicts and Politics. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books Rowman & Littlefield 3. Alecou, Alexios (2016) Cypriots at War: the enrolment of volunteers and the role of the Press [Οι Κύπριοι στον πόλεμο: Η κατάταξη των εθελοντών και ο ρόλος του Τύπου]. In Α. Αlecou (ed.), The WWII through the Cypriot Press. Nicosia: Press and Information Office. 4. Alecou, Alexios (2015) The political dimension of the journalist work of Costas Montis [Η πολιτική διάσταση του δημοσιογραφικού έργου του Κώστα Μόντη]. In Andreas Sophokleous (ed.), Costas Montis, Studies on his
journalist work, pp. 47-54. Nicosia: Mass Media & Communication Institute. 5. Alecou, Alexios (2013) The foundation of the Communist Party of Cyprus [Η ίδρυση του Κομμουνιστικού Κόμματος Κύπρου]. In G. Giorgis and Y. Katsourides (eds), The Cypriot Left in the first period of the British Rule, pp. 87-97. Athens: Taxideftis. 6. Alecou, Alexios (forthcoming). The political and ideological role of the Church of Cyprus, 1960-2012 [Ο πολιτικός και ιδεολογικός ρόλος της Εκκλησίας της Κύπρου, 1960-2012]. In Y. Katsourides (ed.), Institutions of the Republic of Cyprus. Athens: Taxideftis. 7. Alecou, Alexios (forthcoming). The challenging behavior of Cypriots in the early years of the British rule [Η παραβατική ταυτότητα των κυπρίων στα πρώτα χρόνια της Αγγλοκρατίας: κατασκευή ή πραγματικότητα;]. In A. Alecou (ed.), The Useful Enemy: essays on the construction of the Other. Nicosia: University of Cyprus Press. With A. Kapardis. OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1. (2015). Book Review of Noah Riseman (2012). Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press). Army History, Winter 2015, pp. 49-50. 2. (2015). Book Review of Catherine Corrigal-Brown (2012). Patterns of Protest: Trajectories of Participation in Social Movements. (Stanford, Ca.: Stanford University Press). Political Studies Review, 13:2, p. 280. 3. (2015). Book Review of Yiannos Katsourides (2014). History of the Communist Party in Cyprus: Colonialism, Class and the Cypriot Left. (London: I. B. Tauris). Reviews in History (review no. 1723). DOI: 10.14296/RiH/2014/1723. Date accessed: 6 February, 2015. 4. (2015). Book Review of Andreas Sophokleous (2014). The Press censorship in Cyprus during the British Rule (1878-1960) [Η Λογοκρισία του Τύπου στην Κύπρο επί Αγγλοκρατίας (1878-1960)] (Nicosia: En Typois). Cyprus Bibliophilia, Vol. Θ, Issue 34, p. 44. 5. (2009). "The influence of the Greek civil war on the division of the Greek- Cypriot community s local society. http://www.lse.ac.uk/europeaninstitute/research/hellenicobservatory/pdf /4th_%20Symposium/PAPERS_PPS/HISTORY%20II/ALECOU.pdf CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS 1. Conference presentation, The Greek civil war as a political battlefield in Cyprus 1946-1949. Conference of the Department of Political Science and
History, Panteion University Athens «Dimensions of the Greek Civil War 1946-1949», 7-12 December, 2016. 2. Conference presentation, Radicalization of the far-right in Cyprus. Conference of the Prometheus Research Institute, University of Cyprus, Frederic University and University of Nicosia «Social, Economic and Political History of Cyprus», 18-19 June, 2015. 3. Introduction to the conference Acceleration of History: War, Conflicts and Politics, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London and European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, 21 March 2015. 4. Conference presentation, Far-right in Greece and Cyprus: Evolution and radicalization in the '40s, Conference «The extreme right in Cyprus, Greece and Turkey», Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Cyprus, 1 November 2014. 5. Conference presentation, The political dimension of the journalist work of Costas Montis, Conference «The journalist work of Costas Montis», Institute of Mass Media, University of Nicosia, 24 October, 2014. 6. Conference presentation, The Unification referendum of 1950 as a milestone of the anticolonial movement of Cyprus, Conference «100 years since the referendum of 1914», Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, 20-21 November, 2014. 7. Conference presentation, The founding of the Communist Party of Cyprus, Conference «The Cypriot Left during the first period of the British Colonialism», Prometheus Research Institute and Department of History and Archaeology, University of Cyprus, 24-25 April, 2012 8. Conference presentation, The influence of the Greek Civil War on the division of the Greek Cypriot community s local society, Conference «Exploring the History of Cyprus 1878-2010», Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, March 2011. 9. Conference presentation, The influence of the Greek civil war in crystallization of Left and Right in Cyprus, 1945-1950, Conference «4 th Hellenic Observatory PhD Symposium on Contemporary Greece and Cyprus», London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), June 2009. CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR ORGANIZATION 'Acceleration of History: War, Conflicts and Politics, 21 March 2015, University of London and European University Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus. GRANTS AND RECOGNITION
Visiting Fellowship, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, School of Advanced Studies, University of London, January 2014-December 2015 Member of Board of Editors, Cogent Arts & Humanities Journal PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS Board Member of the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (Cybc), 2012-2013 Vice-President of the Parole Board of Cyprus, 2010-2013 Member of the Scientific Board of the Research Institute Promitheas, 2011- today Vice-President of the Board of the Research Institute for Strategic Development (RISD), 2013 Member of the Hellenic Political Science Association (HPSA), 2003