SELECTED HONORS

2020, Campus Nominee, HERS Institute for Women in Higher Education Administration

2018, Nominated and Selected, National Security Seminar (NSSS), U.S. Army War College, 3-6 June 2019.

2018, Organization Advisor of the Year, Student Life, IUSB.

2017, Nominated for the National Security Seminar (NSS), U.S. Army War College.

2017, Organization Advisor of the Year, Student Government Association, IUSB.

2016, Nominated for the SGA/Student Life Educator of the Year Award, IUSB.

2009, IU South Bend Alumni Association Legacy Award.

2009, IU South Bend Honorary Coach.

2008, IU President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching.

2007, IUSB Distinguished Teaching Award.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Books

American Foreign Policy towards the Colonels’ Greece:  Uncertain Allies and the 1967 Coup d’État (with Jonathan Swarts). (Palgrave MacMillan: 2018).

The Politics of Elite Transformation: The Consolidation of Greek Democracy in Theoretical Perspective (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2001). 

Edited Volumes and Other Editorships

Book Review Editor of the Social Sciences, Ergon: Greek/American Arts and Letters, referred interdisciplinary, online journal, October 2017-present.

Co-editor (with Jonathan Swarts), Journal of Political and Military Sociology, 2007-present (formerly titled Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review, the journal returned to its original title as well as its biannual publication schedule.)

Peer-Reviewed Scholarly Publications

“From Technologies of Control to ‘Facebook Refugees:’ The Unintended Consequences of the EU-Turkey

Agreement in the Refugee Crisis in Greece,” Political and Military Sociology: An Annual Review Vol.45 (2018).

“Challenges to Desecuritizing Migration in Greece” (with Jonathan Swarts), Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies, 15: 1 (2013).

“The Securitization of Migration:  Greece in the 1990s” (with Jonathan Swarts), Journal of Balkan & Near Eastern Studies, 14: 1 (2012).

“Political Learning as a Catalyst of Moderation: Lessons from Democratic Consolidation in Greece,” Democratization, 15: 2 (April 2008).

“Attitudes toward the Xeno:  Greece in Comparative Perspective,” (with Jonathan Swarts), Mediterranean Quarterly:  A Journal of Global Issues, 18: 1 (Winter 2007).

“Social Policy, Democracy and Citizenship in Southern Europe” (with Marisol García), Commissioned and refereed chapter in Richard Gunther, P. Nikiforos Diamandouros, and Dimitri A. Sotiropoulos, eds., Democracy and the State and Society in the New Southern Europe (Oxford:  Oxford University Press, 2006).

“Female, Barbarian, and Slave:  Migrant Women in Modern Greece,” (with Jonathan Swarts), Refereed article for a special issue of the journal, The Classical Bulletin, 80: 2 (2004).

“Migrant Women, Domestic Work and the Sex Trade in Greece—A Snapshot of Migrant Policy in the Making” (with Jonathan Swarts), Refereed article for the journal, Επιθεώρηση Κoιvωvικώv Ερευvώv [The Greek Review of Social Research], 110 (2003).

“Relying on Stop-gap Measures: Coping with Unemployment in Greece,” in Nancy Bermeo, ed., Unemployment in Southern Europe: Coping with the Consequences (London: Frank Cass, 2000), reprint of a commissioned and refereed article in South European Society and Politics, 4: 3 (Winter 1999).  

“Relying on Stop-Gap Measures:  Coping with Unemployment in Greece,” Commissioned and refereed article for the journal, South European Society and Politics, 4: 3 (Winter 1999).  

“Do Attitudes Matter?  The Military and Democratic Consolidation in Greece,” Refereed article for the Journal of Armed Forces and Society, 24: 2 (Winter 1997).

“Political Parties and Democracy” (Washington, DC: International Forum for Democratic Studies, 1997).  (I served as the rapporteur and was the sole author of the report summarizing the proceedings of a conference, “Political Parties and Democracy,” sponsored by the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies, Washington, D.C., 18-19 November 1996).