Brief Biographical Note
Victor Roudometof is associate professor of sociology with the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus. His studies include Economics (B.A. University of Macedonia 1987), Sociology (M.A. Bowling Green State University, 1990) & History (M.A. University of Pittsburgh, 1994). As a graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh he was awarded the 1992-93 interdisciplinary fellowship of the University's Program in Cultural Studies; as well as the Gerondelis Foundation pre-doctoral fellowship (Spring 1996). After receiving his PhD in Sociology & Cultural Studies (University of Pittsburgh, 1996) he was the recipient of the 1996-97 Mary Seeger O' Boyle Post-doctoral fellowship with the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. He joined the University of Cyprus as assistant professor in 2003. He previously held appointments with the American College of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece), Washington & Lee University (Lexington, VA), & Miami University (Oxford, Ohio).
He is the author of Collective Memory, National Identity & Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria & the Macedonian Question (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002) & Nationalism, Globalization and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001). He has edited or co-edited five volumes on Americanization, transnationalism, nationalism & religion as well as several issues of refereed journals. His work has been translated and published in Greece, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia & Bulgaria. His publication record includes over 100 articles, volume chapters, encyclopedia entries, book reviews & review essays. He has served as reviewer for 22 major social science journals, incl. Cultural Sociology, Current Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Religion & Nations and Nationalism. He has served as external reviewer for evaluations conducted by major research centers as well as for international publishers & for governmental organizations. He is currently a member in the editorial boards of the European Journal of Social Theory (London: Sage), Journal of Levantine Studies (Jerusalem: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Nations and Nationalism (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, London School of Economics) and the online journals Religions & the International Journal of Bio-Sciences and Technology. Since January 2008, he is Faculty Fellow with Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology. Since 2006, he serves as Cyprus Correspondent for EUREL – Sociological and Legal Data on Religion in Europe and as Cyprus Program Director for the European Values Study. He has also served as Board Member of the International Sociological Association's Working Group on Comparative & Historical Sociology (2006-2010).
