Professional Experience:
Director and Research Lead, Hellenic Heritage Foundation Greek Canadian Archives at York University, September 2022 – Present.
Assistant Professor of History, Division of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi, September 2016 – August 2022.
Assistant Director in the Academic Enrichment Program, Academic Enrichment Program at New York University Abu Dhabi, September 2021 – August 2022.
Coordinator of Academic Development in the Academic Enrichment Program, Academic Enrichment Program at New York University Abu Dhabi, September 2019 – August 2021.
Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Division of Arts and Humanities at New York University Abu Dhabi, August 2014 – August 2016.
Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, Fordham University, Fall 2013.
Part-time Adjunct Instructor, Department of History, New York University, Summer I 2013.
Publications:
In progress, The Russian Mediterranean: Shaping Sovereignty and Selfhood on the Island of Paros, 1768-1789. Under Contract with Edinburgh University Press.
“Formations of Resistance,” in Paschalis Kitromilides and Constantinos Tsoukalas (eds.) The Greek Revolution: A Critical Dictionary (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2021): pp. 100-119.
“New Horizons of Political Possibility: Greek Political Imagination after the Russo-Ottoman War of 1768-1774,” in Dimitris Stamatopoulos (ed.) European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans: War, Nationalism and Empire from Napoleon to the Bolsheviks (London and New York: I.B. Tauris, 2020): pp. 37-63.
“Καταδεικνύοντας τη συνάφεια των έργων του Ιώσηπου Μοισιόδακα και του Δημήτριου Καταρτζή: Μια επαναξιολόγηση της επιρροής των Ορλωφικών στην ελληνική σκέψη” (Contextualizing the Writings of Iosipos Moisiodax and Dimitrios Katartzis: A Reassessment of the Influence of the Orlov Revolt on Greek Political Thought),” in Dimitris Stamatopoulos (ed.) Πόλεμος και Επανάσταση στα Οθωμανικά Βαλκάνια (War and Revolution in the Ottoman Balkans) (Athens: Επίκεντρο [Epikentro], 2019): pp. 73-107.
“Review: Paschalis Kitromilides, Enlightenment and Revolution: The Making of Modern Greece (Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England: Harvard University Press, 2013),” European History Quarterly, vol. 47, No. 1 (2017): pp. 153-155.
Education:
New York University (New York, NY)
Ph.D. in Modern European History (Spring 2014)
Dissertation: Nationness in the Absence of a Nation: Narrating the Prehistory of the Greek National Movement, 1762-1792.
Committee: Katherine Fleming (chair), Yanni Kotsonis, Larry Wolff, Stefanos Geroulanos, and Tom Gallant.
York University (Toronto, ON)
M.A. in History (Fall 2006)
Supervisor: Tom Gallant
University of Toronto Scarborough (Toronto, ON)
Hon. B.A. in History (Spring 2005)
Fellowships and Honors:
NYU Abu Dhabi, Office of Inclusion and Equity, Fund for Inclusion and Innovation Award, 2022
NYU, Office of Global Inclusion, Diversity, and Strategic Innovation, Faculty Innovation and Anti-Racism Microgrant, 2021-2022
NYU Abu Dhabi, Undergraduate Research Program, Post-Graduation Practical Training Grant, 2021, 2020, and 2018
NYU Abu Dhabi, Arts & Humanities Division, Course Relief Award, 2020 (Spring Term)
NYU Abu Dhabi, Grant for Publication Committee, Publication Grant, 2019
Modern Greek Studies Association, John O. Iatrides Dissertation Prize, 2015
NYU Abu Dhabi, History Department, Supplementary Research Grant, 2015
Hellenic-American Chamber of Commerce Honorarium, 2014
Remarque Institute Doctoral Fellowship, 2013-2014
Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium Travel Grant, 2013
Dean’s Student Travel Grant, 2013
Henry Mitchell McCracken Fellowship, 2007-2012
Visiting Graduate Student Fellowship at the Global Research Institute at NYU in London, 2011
Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium Travel Grant, 2009
Marie Curie Fellowship for Early Stage Research, 2009
Dean’s Student Travel Grant, 2009
History Department Summer Travel Grant, 2008
Dean’s Student Travel Grant, 2008
Ontario Graduate Scholarship (Declined), 2007-2008
Dean’s Supplementary Fellowship, 2007
York University Entrance Scholarship, 2005
HACUA Prize for Outstanding Presentation, 2005
Invited Talks:
“The Greek Revolution of 1770,” New Approaches to the Greek War of Independence. The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Athens, July 5, 2018.
“‘Spanish Castles’ in the Aegean: Greek Political Imagination in the Russian Archipelagic Principality, 1770-1774,” The Res Publica Series.
European University at St. Petersburg: St. Petersburg, April 12, 2018.
“Sound Philosophy and Mutual Love: Greek Philosophy in 18th Century Bucharest,” A Europe of Diasporas Conference. The Palace of the
National Military Circle: Bucharest, November 25, 2016.
“Sovereignty and Political Imagination in the Russian Mediterranean,” Nordic Workshop in Helsinki. University of Jyväskylä: Helsinki,
December 3, 2015.
“New Horizons of Political Possibility: Greek Responses to the Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca.” HSE Centre for Source Studies, National Research
University Higher School of Economics: Moscow, January 21, 2015.
“The Orlov Revolt: Prequel to the Greek War of Independence” at “Up from the Ashes – March 25, 1821: ‘We Are All Greeks,’” Holy Trinity
Cathedral Center: New York, March 25, 2014.
“A ‘Russian Swagger’ in the Mediterranean: The Orlov Brothers’ Efforts to Foment Revolution in Ottoman Europe.” at “The Mediterranean as Movement: Greeks and Russians,” Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University: New York, March 29, 2013.
Conference Presentations:
“’Catherine will Grant You Liberty’: The Orlov Conspiracy.” 53rd Associate for Slavic, East European, & Eurasian Studies Convention. New Orleans (Virtual). December 1-3, 2021.
“Faith, Freedom, and Fatherland: The Orlov Revolt in Global Context.” Balkan Worlds III: Power Networks in the Imperial and Post-Imperial Balkans (18th – 20th c.). Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, University of Macedonia: Thessaloniki. October 6-8, 2016.
“Greece through the Russian Gaze: The Russian Archipelagic Principality and the Russian Origins of Greeks Nationalism.” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium 24. Center for Hellenic Studies, Georgia State University: Atlanta. October 15-18, 2015.
“From St. Petersburg west to Tuscany and south to Crete: the Orlovs’ Insurrectionist Network and the Origins of Greek Nationalism.”
Rethinking Historical Space Conference. New York University Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi. May 19-21, 2015.
“The Russian Origins of Greek Nationalism: The Russian Archipelagic Principality (1770-1774) and the Invention of a Greek National Identity.” Twenty-Fifth Annual Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Conference: Diversity and Security. London School of Economics: London, England. April 21 – 23, 2015.
“‘We Are Ordinary People’: The Aganaktismenoi of Syntagma Square and Greece’s Shifting Political Culture.” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium 23. Modern Greek Studies and West European Studies, Indiana University: Bloomington. November 14-16, 2013.
“Violence and the Negotiation of Identities: Reinterpreting the Orlov Revolt as an Instance of ‘Constitutive Violence.’” Neither Strange nor Familiar: Contemporary Approaches to Hybridity. University of Toronto: Toronto. October 22-23, 2010.
“The Orlov Revolt and the Origins of Greek Nationalism.” Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium 21. Segal Graduate School of Business, Simon Fraser University: Vancouver. October 15-17, 2009.
“Nationness, Diaspora and Memory: An Examination of the Conceptual Possibilities Engendered by the Orlov Revolt.” Concluding Seminar of the 2008-2009 Marie Curie ‘Building on the Past’ Program. Universität Bielefeld: Bielefeld, Germany. June 18-20, 2009.
“Beyond the ‘Black Box’: A Reconsideration of the Ontological Assumptions that Inform Greek Historiography’s Understanding of the Emergence of Greek Nationalism.” Πολιτισμικές μεταφορές και έννοιες που ταξιδεύουν: Έθνος και Διανοούμενοι ανάμεσα στην Ελλάδα και την Ευρώπη κατά τον μακρό 19ο αιώνα. National and Kapodistrian University of Athens: Athens, Greece. April 10-12, 2009.
“Nationness in the Absence of a Nation: Narrating the Prehistory of the Greek National Movement.” Nineteenth Annual Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism Conference: Nationalism and Globalisation. London School of Economics: London, England. March 31 – April 2, 2009.
“Nationhood as epiphany: An Examination of the Sudden Crystallization of Greek Nationhood as a Cultural and Political Form in the Aftermath of the Russo-Turkish War of 1768-1774.” Introductory Seminar of the 2008-2009 Marie Curie ‘Building on the Past’ Program. Slovak Academy of Sciences: Bratislava, Slovakia. September 18-20, 2008.
“From Nation-as-Concept to Nation-as-Discourse: A New Approach for the Study of Greek Nationalism.” Eighth Annual Graduate Humanities Forum Conference: Origins. University of Pennsylvania: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. February 28-29, 2008.
“Moving Towards a Two-Dimensional Understanding of Greek National Time: A Reexamination of the Kitromilides-Petmezas Paradigm.” Twelfth Annual New Frontiers in Graduate History Conference. York University: Toronto, Canada. February 14-16, 2008.
“When Cartography Transforms Identity: Examining the Impact of Maps on the Formation of Greek National Identity.” 2007 McGill-Queen’s Graduate Student Conference in History. Queens University: Kingston, Canada. March 16-17, 2007.
“Constructing an (In)coherent National Identity: Examining the Emergence of Greek National Identity.” Thirteenth Annual Underhill
Graduate Colloquium. Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. March 8-9, 2007.
“Inventing a Myth: Examining How The Archaeological Record At Masada Was Altered In Pursuit of Nationalistic Ends.” Second Annual HACUA (University of Alberta History and Classics Undergraduate Association) Conference. University of Alberta: Edmonton, Canada. March 18-19, 2005.
Languages:
Greek: Fluent.
French: Proficient in reading.
Italian, Russian: Elementary reading knowledge.
– Vasilis Molos