Full List of Academic Activities

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1. Various Appointments:

1999 - 2000 Visiting Associate, Center for International Studies, University of      Pittsburgh.

2000 (Jan. - Aug.) Visiting Research Associate, Department of Sociology,      University of Pittsburgh.

2002 (May 15 - June 30), Visiting International Scholar, Miami University,      Oxford, OH.

1999 - 2000 Associate Advisor, Foundation for Hellenic Academic Studies      (HELLAS), Pittsburgh, PA.

2. Conference Activities:

1992 Discussant, Section on Youth, American Sociological Association Annual      Meetings, August, Pittsburgh, PA.

1992 Roundtable Organizer and Presider, Roundtable on "Cultural Theory",      10^th Anniversary Conference of the journal Theory, Culture, and Society,      Seven Springs, PA.

1994 Discussant, Sessions 9 & 10 on Nationalism & Globalization, World      Congress of Sociology, July, Bielefeld, Germany, Research Committee 16      (Sociological Theory).

1995 Organizer, Graduate Student Colloquium, Department of Sociology,      University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA.

1995 Roundtable Organizer and Presider, refereed roundtable "The Ethnic      Revival and the New World Order", North Central Sociological Association      Annual Meetings, April, Pittsburgh, PA.

1998 Presider, Roundtable 18 "Culture and Territory", Culture Section      Refereed Roundtables, American Sociological Association Annual Meetings,      August, San Francisco, CA.

2000 Panelist, Faculty Workshop "Individuals and their Global Communities:      Changing Paradigms of Identity", Monday May 22, 2K56 Posvar Hall,      University of Pittsburgh.

2000 Organizer, Presider & Discussant, special panel "Southeastern Europe at      the Dawn of the 21^st Century", American Sociological Association Annual      Meetings, Washington DC.

2001 Discussant, Social Science History Association Annual Meetings, Chicago,      Panel on Macro-historical Dynamics.

2005 Organizer / Presider, Panel ST 14 "Greek Orthodoxy and Modernity:      Reassessing the Boundaries", bi-annual Congress of the International      Society for the Sociology of Religion, Zagreb, Croatia.

2005 Discussant, Panel ST 13 "Reconfiguring Church - State Boundaries in      Greece", bi-annual Congress of the International Society for the Sociology      of Religion, Zagreb, Croatia.

2005 Organizer of two Panels on Collective Memory and Cultural Politics for      the 37^th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology,      Stockholm, Sweden.

2005 Organizer (with Vered Vinitzky - Seroussi) of a panel on Collective Memory and Commemoration for the 37^th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden.

2005 Discussant, Panel on Collective Memory and Cultural Politics, 37^th World      Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Stockholm, Sweden.

2008 Organizer (with Willfried Spohn) of a panel on Globalization, Religion and      Collective Identities: Theoretical, Historical and Comparative Perspectives,      for the International Sociological Association's 1^st Interim Conference,      Barcelona, Spain.

2008 Organizer (with Dee Britton) of a panel on "Multiple Cosmopolitanisms:      Intersections of Globalization, Transnationalism and the Nation - State",      38^th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, Budapest,      Hungary.

2008 Organizer (with Dalia Abdelhady) of a panel on "(Re-) Asserting Memory      in a Global Age", 38^th World Congress of the International Institute of      Sociology, Budapest, Hungary.

2009 Discussant, Session 19/4: Religiosity Within Parish and Beyond, bi-      annual Congress of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion,      Santiago de al Compesta, Spain.

2010 Organizer of a session on "Inter-Civilizational Configurations and      Encounters: Towards a Historical Sociology of Globalization", for Thematic      Group #02 Comparative and Historical Sociology, World Congress of      Sociology, Goetheburg, Sweden.

3. Cyprus Seminar Series (Lectures & Presentations at the University of      Cyprus):

2007 Panel Organizer, panel on the Greek edition of The New Balkans,      University of Cyprus, Nicosia, November 26. Keynote speaker: Aristotelis      Tziampiris (University of Pireaus, Greece).

2008 Organizer & Coordinator, Lecture by Dalia Abdelhady (Southern      Methodist University, TX, USA), University of Cyprus, Nicosia, April 8 (co-      sponsored by Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies Department).

2008 Organizer & Coordinator, Lecture by Alexander Agadjanian (Russian      University of the Humanities), University of Cyprus, Nicosia, November 4.

4. Reviews & Evaluations:

1993 Reviewer for the 1994 Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meetings.

2001 Reviewer, Academy for Educational Development, US State Department      (Washington, DC), responsible for evaluating 14 proposals for institutional      co-operation between US and European Universities.

2003 Reviewer, PSC-CUNY Faculty Research Grant Committee, City University      of New York.

2004 External Reviewer, Reappointment Committee, Department of Urban      Planning, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio.

2004 Reviewer, European Science Foundation (ESF) Standing Committee for      the Social Sciences, Peer Review Evaluation of Exploratory Workshop      EW04.

2006 Referee for the Humanities Council of the Netherlands Organization for      Scientific Research (Vidi Program, Innovation Research Incentives Scheme      2006).

2002 - Present, Referee for the following academic journals:

1. Journal of Political and Military Sociology (Independent journal, G. Kourvetaris Publ. / Northern Illinois University) (2002, 2004, 2005, 2006).
2. Geopolitics (London: Frank Cass Publ.) (2004).
3. Ecology & Society: A Journal of Integrative Science for Resilience and Sustainability (electronic journal) (2004).
4. International Politics (London: Palgrave / Macmillan) (2004).
5. Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Official Journal of the Modern Greek Studies Association (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press) (2004, 2005, 2006).
6. Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion (electronic journal) (2005).
7. Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Official Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) (2005).
8. Cultural Sociology, Official Journal of the British Sociological Association (London: Sage) (2006).
9. Ethnic and Racial Studies (London: Routledge) (2006).
10. Nations and Nationalism, Official Journal of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK) (2006, 2007)
11. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (London: Routledge / Francis & Taylor) (2007).
12. Current Sociology, Official Journal of the International Sociological Association (London: Sage) (2007).
13. Theoria: A journal of Social and Political Theory (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, in association with the University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa) (2006).
14. Sociology of Religion, Official Journal of the US-based Association for Sociology of Religion [ASR], (Association of Sociology of Religion Publ.) (2007).
15. Holocaust and Genocide Studies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, published in association with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum) (2007)
16. History and Memory, edited at the Eva and Marc Besen Institute for the Study of Historical Consciousness, Tel Aviv University (Indiana University Press) (2007).
17. Social Compass: International Review of Sociology of Religion (London: Sage), Official journal of the International Society for the Sociology of Religion (2008).
18. South European Societies and Politics (London: Routledge) (2008).
19. Slavic Review (University of Illinois at Urbana) (2008).
20. Journal of Sociology (London: Sage) (2009).
21. American Sociological Review (American Sociological Association Publ.), Official Journal of the American Sociological Association (2009).