CURRICULUM VITAE Name: A. Lily Macrakis Dean of Hellenic College 50 Goddard Avenue Brookline, MA 02445 Office: (617) 850-1253 Office Fax: (617)850-1477 Email: lmacrakis@hchc.edu Languages Ancient Greek, Modern Greek, French, Italian and German EDUCATION: Ph.D. Harvard University, Dissertation: Cretan Rebel: Eleftherios Venizelos in Ottoman Crete (1864-1898) (Fields: Ancient Greek History, Byzantine History, Balkan History, European Diplomatic History) A.M., Radcliffe College, History Lic. Phil., University of Athens, Archaeology and History (Honors) Cambridge Proficiency, Language and Literature (Honors) Professorat de Francais, Language and Literature (Honors) Diploma, Krikou Preparatory School, Athens (Valedictorian) Positions: Hellenic College Dean 2002 Regis College 1962-64 Lecturer 1964-85 Assistant/Associate Professor 1964-85 Chairman Department of History 1986 Professor of History 1990-98 Director International Relations Studies 1966-98 Founder and Director Greek Studies Program 1969-90 Founder and Co-Director European Studies Program Visiting Professor and Researcher 1961-63 Bunting Institute Fellow, The Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College 1982-83 Harvard University Classics Department 1988-89 Aegean University, International Fellowship Program 1988-89 University of Crete, Department of History 1952 Research Assistant to Dr. H. Robinson, Agora Excavations, American School of Classical Studies, Athens 1953 Research Assistant to Dr. Yannis Miliades, Director, Acropolis Museum, Athens 1956-58 Bibliographer, Widener Library, Harvard University
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, GRANTS: Athens University Scholarship, 1950-52 Radcliffe College Fellowship, 1954-55 Bunting Institute Fellowship, 1961-63 Milton Traveling Research Fellowship, Harvard University, 1963 Pi Gamma Mu, 1966 Who is Who in American Women; Marquis Who is Who; International Who is Who; an Who is Who? Fulbright Grant for research abroad, 1987 Academy of Athens Biography Prize for the biography of the Greek statesman Eleftherios Venizelos, 1990. The Gerondelis Foundation Grant, 1990 and 1991 The Maliotis Foundation Grant, 1990 and 1992 PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES: Membership on Regis College Committees: Education Policy and Curriculum, (Chairman) Faculty Council, (Chairman) Personnel Policy Library Cultural Affairs, (Chairman) American Association of University Professors (AAUP), Regis Chapter, President Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA), President MGSA Symposium at Harvard University, (Chairman) Editor, MGSA Bulletin, Chairman, MGSA Symposium, on the 150 th anniversary of the Greek War of Independence, Harvard University The International Chamber of Commerce, Symposium on The One Thousandth Anniversary of the Christianization of the Russians, Chairman Tufts University Conference on The Hellenic Republic at Fifteen Years Occasional speech writer for Governor Michael S. Dukakis Committee of the annual Nicholas Christopher Memorial Lectureship, Harvard University The Bunting Institute Fellowship Selection Committee International Action Learning Program (Interlap) Board of Directors The Gennadius Library Organizing Committee for fund raising Journal of Modern Greek Studies and Modern Greek Studies Yearbook, Book Reviewer The East European Association-Executive Board, 1978-1980. The Maliotis Cultural Center Executive Committee, 1977-1980 Study in Greece-Advisory Board, 1972-1980. Columbia University, Modern Greek Studies Program-Advisory, 1977-1979. Harvard Danforth Seminars on the teaching of history-adv. Board, 1976-1977 The New England History Teachers Ass.-Executive Committee, 1974-1977. The Helicon Society President, 1971-1972. The Aegean Institute-Board of Directors, 1971 to present. The Society of Bunting Institute Fellows, 1970 to present. The Center for European Studies-Greek Study Group, Harvard University, Co-founder (with Roy Macrides) and coordinator, 1974-.
PUBLICATIONS: Eleftherios Venizelos: The Making of a National Leader (1864-1910), Athens, 1992, pp.559 and ill. (In Greek) An Annotated Bibliography on Modern Greek History, Modern Greece: A Bibliography, MGSA/Library of Congress publication, 2000. Venizelos in Crete, Proceedings of the VIth International Cretological Congress, Crete, 1991, pp.193-212. The Real Contribution of Venizelos in Akrotiri, in Eleftherios Venizelos-Society-Economics-Politics in his Time. Athens, 1990:pp.277-329. (In Greek) Profile of Cretan Civilization in Crete, Nelles Guide, Michele Macrakis, Ed., Munich, 1990: pp. 19-46. Eleftherios Venizelos, in Crete-History and Culture. Heraklion, 1989, Vol. II, pp. 493-502. (in Greek). One of our Own in the White House? an article for the Sunday edition of the Greek newspaper Vima on Dukakis chances for the Presidency. April 1988. Rigas Pheraios, Biographical Dictionary of Modern European Radicals and Socialists, vol. I; 1780-1815, London, 1986: pp.211-215. Discovering Teaching as a Vocation, Radcliffe Quarterly, June 1986. Comparative Prices in the Iliad: the Oxen Worth, Studies Presented to Sterling Dow on his Eightieth Birthday, Greek, Roman and Byzantine Monograph 10, Duke University, Durham,,1984, pp.211-215. Editor and Contributor, MGSA Bulletin, 1982-1985. Women and Men in Greece: A Society in Transition, co-editor (Johns Hopkins University Press), 1983 New Trends in Modern Greek Historiography, co-editor and contributor, MGSA, 1982. Preface, Greece in the 40s: A Nation in Crisis, John O. Iatrides, ed. Member of the edit. Committee, University Press of New England, 1981 (also translated in Greek), Themelio, 1986. Cretan Rebel, a Research in Progress, American School of Classical Studies Newsletter, Spring 1981. Eleftherios Venizelos Agonistes-A Study in Cretan Leadership (1864-1910), Athens, 1981. First presented at the Gennadius Library in May 1981 on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
SELECT PAPERS AND LECTURES: A series of lectures on Venetian Crete for the George Seferis Chair, Harvard University, Spring 1980 Venizelos and Ataturk an all-day seminar at the Foreign Service Institute, Department of State, April 1985. Venizelos in Crete, Keynote address, VIth Internatioal Cretological Congress, Crete, Greece, August 1986. Eleftherios Venizelos a commemorative session at the Unitated Nations on the 50 th anniversary of Venizelos death. Round table organizer and discussant, March 1987. Crete-an Illustrated Lecture, at the Smithsonian Institute, February 1991. Venizelos, Prince Goerge of Greece, and the Princess Marie Bonaparte of Greece, a round-table discussion at the Center for European Studies, Harvard University, May 1991.