Brief Biographical Note
Victor Roudometof (PhD Sociology & Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh, 1996) was born in 1964 in Kavala, Greece. In addition to his doctorate, 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). In 1996-97 he was the recipient of the Mary Seeger O' Boyle Post-doctoral fellowship with the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University. Before coming to the University of Cyprus, he taught at the American College of Thessaloniki (Thessaloniki, Greece), Washington & Lee University (Lexington, VA), & Miami University (Oxford, Ohio). He is the author of Nationalism, Globalization and Orthodoxy: The Social Origins of Ethnic Conflict in the Balkans (Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2001) & Collective Memory, National Identity & Ethnic Conflict: Greece, Bulgaria & the Macedonian Question (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2002); the editor of The Macedonian Question: Culture, Historiography, Politics (Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 2000); & co-editor of American Culture in Europe: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998), Communities Across Borders: New Immigrants and Transnational Cultures (London: Routledge, 2002), The New Balkans: Disintegration & Reconstruction (Boulder, Colo.: East European Monographs, 2002) & Eastern Orthodoxy in a Global Age: Tradition Meets the 21st Century (Walnut Creek, CA: Alta Mira Press, 2005). His work has been translated and published in Greece, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia & Bulgaria.
He is the author of over 30 articles, volume chapters, encyclopedia entries, book reviews, review essays, etc. He has served as reviewer for several major sociology journals, incl. Cultural Sociology, Current Sociology, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Sociology of Religion & Nations and Nationalism. He also served as external reviewer for evaluations conducted by the European Science Foundation, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research & the US-based Academy for Educational Development. Since 2003 he is Associate Editor & Editorial Board Member of the Journal of Political & Military Sociology [JPMS]. As guest editor he has edited two special issues of the journal on The Politics of Collective Memory (2003) & Collective Memory & Cultural Politics (2007). 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 been elected Board Member for the International Sociological Association's Thematic Group #02: Comparative & Historical Sociology (2006 - 2010) & currently also serves as Newsletter Editor for the Group’s annual Newsletter. Since 2008, he is member of the International Advisory Board of the European Journal of Social Theory (London: Sage) and Associate Editor & member of the Advisory Board for the online journal Exploring Globalization, launched by Farleigh Dickinson University’s Global Issues Gateway. Since January 2008, he is Faculty Fellow with the Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.
