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Andreas Bouroutis is a Political Scientist and Historian. He teaches at the Hellenic Open University (Historiography – Master’s in Modern and Contemporary History) and as a Visiting Professor at Michigan State University in the USA (War and Revolution – College of Social Science). He is a fellow of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and a member of the Center for European and Eurasian Studies (CERES).
He holds a degree in Economic Sciences from the University of Athens (EKPA), a Master’s specialization in Political Analysis (Department of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), and completed his doctoral thesis at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki [European Schools in Thessaloniki (1888-1943). Cultural and Social Transformation in a City of the Late Empire].
Since 2016-2017 he has taught various courses at the Department of Political Science, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Contemporary Diplomacy and Politics in the Eastern Mediterranean, Human Rights Policies, Refugees and Migrants, International Organizations, and the Holocaust and Historical Memory).
He has been a fellow in Germany (2013), Italy (2016, 2019), and Greece (2019), as well as at international research institutions (Latsis Foundation 2014, Yad Vashem Holocaust Research Institute 2018, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia 2019). In 2020-21, he was the Scientific Director of the postdoctoral research program “Postwar Transformation of Thessaloniki and the Fate of Jewish Property.”
He has published three monographs. His second monograph, The Holocaust in Thessaloniki. The Italian Stance and the Jewish Students of Umberto Primo, was published by Alexandria Editions in Athens in 2020 and was shortlisted for the State Book Awards. His third monograph, Jewish Properties. The State and Collaborationism in Thessaloniki, was published by Alexandria Editions in Athens in 2023, and is currently in its second edition.
In June 2025, the first volume of his study on the Middle East, titled The Arab-Israeli Conflict. The Age of Wars 1917-1973, will be published by Alexandria Editions.
He has published articles in international and Greek scientific journals (Cogent Arts and Humanities, Yad Vashem Studies, Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, Balkanistica, Political Science Review, TA HISTORIKA) and in collective volumes in Greece and abroad.
His research interests focus on social and economic history and politics, conflicts, human rights, and migration flows (Europe – Middle East), as well as Jewish communities in Greece and the Balkans
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