Dr. Constantin Katsakioris
Associate Professor of History
Constantin Katsakioris holds a PhD in contemporary history from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris (EHESS, 2015). He was a junior researcher at the EHESS in the project “African Elites Educated in the former Socialist Bloc” (2012-2015), a lecturer and visiting professor at the universities of Bayreuth and Leipzig in Germany (2015-2020), a member of the Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies, a fellow of the German Orient Institute in Beirut, Lebanon (2019-2021), and a senior PRIMUS researcher, principal investigator and lecturer in the Institute of World History at Charles University in Prague (2021-2023).
Katsakioris is also an associate member of the Centre for Russian, Caucasian and Central European Studies at the EHESS and of the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at Johannesburg University. He has published extensively in global and transnational history (Journal of Global History, Journal of Contemporary History, Journal of Modern European History, Cold War History), in Russian, Soviet and East European Studies (Cahiers du Monde Russe, Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Contemporary European History), as well as in African and Middle East Studies (Cahiers d’Études africaines, Canadian Journal of African Studies, International Journal of African Historical Studies, International Journal of Middle East Studies).