Dr. Alexandra Patrikiou

Dr. Alexandra Patrikiou earned her Bachelor's degree from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Crete. She completed postgraduate studies in European Studies at Panteion University (2003) and King’s College London (2005). In 2012, she obtained her PhD from Panteion University of Athens with a thesis titled "Representations of the Old Continent: The 'Dialogue' of Europe in Greece, 1941-46."

She has been the recipient of multiple scholarships, including the State Scholarship for Modern Greek History (2006-2009), a scholarship from the Foundation for Education and European Culture, Nikos and Lidia Tricha (2010-2011), and a library research grant from Princeton University, funded by the S.J. Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies. Under the supervision of Alexis Dimaras, she edited publication of the collected works of Alexandros Delmouzos (Language is Only a Means to an End, Athens 2014).

Dr. Patrikiou has published extensively in edited volumes and academic journals and has participated in conferences in Greece and abroad. Her research focuses on various aspects of 20th-century Greek social and political history and the pedagogical approaches to teaching these topics.

From 2017 to 2023, she worked as a senior researcher at the Jewish Museum of Greece, responsible for Holocaust Education. Since 2023, she has been an Assistant Professor at the Department of Educational Sciences and Social Work at the University of Patras.