Nicholas Doumanis

Nicholas Doumanis is a European Historian and Writer of the Mediterranean world. Born in Australia in 1964 and studied at University of Sydney and University of New South Wales where he acquired his Masters and Doctorate. He was a Lecturer in European History at Macquarie University and Newcastle University and currently a Senior Lecturer in World History at the University of New South Wales. Editor of the Journal of Religious History and on the editorial board of Contemporary European History. A recipient of the prestigious 'Stanley J. Seeger Fellowship' at Princeton University and an Australian Research Council Fellow at the University of Sydney. Nicholas Doumanis was awarded the London Fraenkel Prize for his book Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean; He has published in the UK: Italy, Inventing the Nation translated by Il Mulino Press: Una Facia Una Razza, and more recently A History of Greece covering the span of paleolithic to contemporary Greece. He is currently working on a monograph for Oxford University Press on inter-communal relations in the Late Ottoman Empire: ‘A History of the Eastern Mediterranean from the Bronze to the present’, and a study of early twentieth century European history from a transnational perspective. Nicholas Doumanis is a member of the Australian Committee for the restitution of the Parthenon Marbles.

Bibliography

• A History of Greece (Essential Histories Series) (Palgrave Macmillan: UK 2009)

• Italy (Inventing the Nation) (London and New York: Arnold and Oxford University Press, 2002)

Una Facia Una Razza(Il Mulino, 2003)

• Myth and Memory in the Mediterranean: Remembering Fascism’s Empire (London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin’s Press, 1997),

• 'The Ottoman Empire' The Age of Empires Robert Aldrich (ed), (Thames and Hudson, 2007), pp. 26–43

• ‘Europe and the Wider World’ Robert Gerwath (ed), Twisted Paths: Europe 1915-1945 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007), pp. 355–80

• ‘'Durable Empire: State virtuosity and social accommodation in the Ottoman Mediterranean', The Historical Journal 49.3 (2006), pp, 953-66

• ‘History Writ Large’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, 51.1 (2005), pp. 114–124

• ‘Trading Patterns, The Mediterranean’, Berkshire Encyclopaedia of World History, edited by William H. McNeill, (Boston, 2005), pp. 1870–73

• 'Italians as "Good" Colonizers',Ben Ghiat and Mia Fuller (eds), Italian Colonialism (Palgrave, 2005), pp. 221–232

• ‘The Greeks in Australia’, in Richard Clogg (ed.), The Greek Diaspora in the Twentieth Century (Macmillan, London, 1999), pp 58–86

• ‘The Italian Empire and brava gente: Oral History and the Dodecanese Islands, in R.J.B. Bosworth and Patrizia Dogliani (ed), Italian Fascism: History, Memory and Representation (Macmillan, London, 1999), pp. 161-77

• ‘Grand History in Small Places: Social Protest on Castellorizo (1934)’, Journal of Modern Greek Studies, 15.1 (1997), pp. 103–123

• 'Eastern Orthodoxy and Migrant Conflict', Journal of Religious History 17.1 (1992), pp 60–77

References and Links

1. UNSW -http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/nicholas-doumanis-38.html http://hist-phil.arts.unsw.edu.au/staff/nicholas-doumanis-38.html

2. 'A History of Greece’ Interview with Phillip Adams ABC Radio National May 2010

3. SBS Radio - Greek Festival of Sydney interview with Themis Kalos May 2010

4. Review of A History of Greece in Law Society Journal