Alexander Kitroeff

Alexander Kitroeff is Professor Emeritus of History at Haverford College in Pennsylvania. He received a D.Phil. in history from Oxford University in 1984. He specializes in the history of identity in Modern Greece and especially its diaspora. He has taught at the Center for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at Queens College, City University of New York, at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies at Princeton University, at the Onassis Center for Hellenic Studies at New York University, at the American College of Greece College Year in Athens. He served on the editorial board of the Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora from 1980 through 2013 when it ceased publication.

The titles of his books are: The Greeks in Egypt: Ethnicity & Class 1919-1937 (Ithaca Press, 1989); Griegos en América (MAPFRE, 1994); Wrestling with the Ancients: Modern Greek Identity & the Olympics (Greekworks, 2004); Hellas Evropi Panathinaikos 100 Chronia Helleniki Istoria (Greekworks, 2010); The Greeks and the Making of Modern Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2019) also published in Arabic by Biblioteca Alexandrina and in Greek by Papasoteriou Books; The Greek Orthodox Church in America: A Modern History (Northern Illinois University Press, 2020), The History of AHEPA 1922-2022 A Century of Service (HAU, 2022 & 2nd edition Holy Cross Orthodox Press, 2023).

In 2022 he received the Archbishop Iakovos Award for Excellence from the Greek-American organization Leadership 100. He is completing a biography of Greek-American maestro Peter Tiboris and working on a book on Greek-owned diner restaurants in America.