The Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) is a scholarly organization for modern

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. It was founded in 1968. It is interdisciplinary, covering language, history, politics, economics, society, and the arts of modern Greece, broadly defined. The MGSA sponsors the '' Journal of Modern Greek Studies'' (1983- , , e-), the only scholarly periodical to focus exclusively on modern Greece. It covers Greek history, society, politics, and culture from the late

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'' has praised it as "a magnificent scholarly journal". Its biennial symposia are a focus for scholars of modern Greece in North America.

List of presidents

The following have served as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association:."MGSA Presidents"
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/ref> * 1970-73: Edmund Keeley * 1974-76: John A. Petropulos * 1977-79:

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* 1980-82: Edmund Keeley * 1983-85:

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* 1986-88: P. Nikiforos Diamandouros * 1988-90: Van Coufoudakis * 1991-92:

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* 1993-95: Adamantia Pollis * 1995-97:

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* 1997-99: Van Coufoudakis * 2000-02:

* 2003-05: Thomas Gallant * 2006-11: Stathis Gourgouris * 2011-14: Gonda Van Steen * 2014-17: Neovi Karakatsanis * 2017-20: Franklin L. Hess

References

External links

MGSA official site
also available online a
MUSE (by subscription)
{{authority control Modern Greek studies Learned societies of the United States