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Publications and Achievements
Deree College - Academics - The faculty - Publications and Achievements
Ioannis Anastassakis
Instructor, Music
Released a solo Flamenco guitar CD, Flamenco Live at Ioannina (Wild Rose Angel Productions), featuring ten solo compositions. Worldwide distribution is being handled by Mel Bay Records.
Published the instructional book and the performance/instructional DVD Flamenco Journal, Mel Bay Publications, April 2006.
Organized and chaired the judges' panel of the 4th International Volos Electric Guitar Competition, January 2006.
Evagelia Andreadou-Samara
Preceptor, Sociology
Attended the conference "Cultures of Violence" at Mansfield College, Oxford University, in September 2005.
Attended the Euro-American conference "Medical Sociology in the 21st Century: Themes and Trends, Dilemmas and Debates," at the University of Edinburgh, in June 2006.
Andreas Boukas, Ph.D.
Professor III, Mathematics and Physics:
Co-authored three papers with Professor Luigi Accardi, director of the Centro Vito Volterra of the Universita di Roma TorVergata:
a."Renormalized Higher Powers of White Noise (RHPWN) and Conformal Field Theory," published in Hnfinite Dimen_sional Analysis, Quantum Probability and Related Topics, vol. 9, no. 3, 2006.
b. "The Emergence of the Virasoro and w-Infinity Lie Algebras Through the Renormalized Higher Powers of White Noise," published in the International Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, September 2006.
c. "Higher powers of q-deformed white noise," published in Methods of Functional Analysis and Topology, vol. 12, no. 3, 2006, pp. 205 - 219.
Irene Danezi, Ph.D.
Professor II, English
Received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Wales, Lampeter.
Spyros Gangas, Ph.D.
Adjunct Preceptor, Sociology
Published the paper "Durkheim's Recourse to Philosophy and the Critique of Sociologism" in the Greek philosophical journal Devkalion, Vol. 24, Issue 1, June 2006.
Presented the paper "Durkheim and Hegel: Organic Solidarity and Sittlichkeit as Political Categories" at the XXVI Internationaler Hegel-Kongress, held in Poznan, Poland, September 19-23, 2006.
Maria Teresa Gastardo, Ph.D.
Professor III, Mathematics and Natural Sciences
Attended the first European Practice-Based and Practitioner Research Conference on Learning and Instruction, at the University of Leuven in Belgium, October 19-21, 2006. The conference theme was "Improving Quality in Teaching and Learning: Developmental Work and Implementation Challenges."
Contributed a conference proposal for a learning group titled "Using Blackboard to Enhance Best Practices in the Teaching and learning of Undergraduate Mathematics and Statistics courses." The conference was organized by the European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction and the Centre for Research and Training.
Dr. Gastardo's submission was approved following peer review by a conference committee of six professors from four different European countries.
Fotini Georgousi, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor - English
Presented a paper on Murnau's classic silent film Nosferatu titled "Anemic Mythology, Immortal Metaphor" for the Deree College Faculty Research Seminars in the spring of 2006.
Kalipso M. Karantinou, Ph.D.
Professor I, Graduate Faculty, Marketing
Co-edited "Changing Perspectives on Customer Behavior," March 2006, a special issue of the Journal of Consumer Behavior with Professor Margaret Hogg of the University of Lancaster and Professor Barbara Lewis of the University of Manchester.
Presented the paper "Polymorphous Relationships in the Life Insurance Industry" at the Customer Research Academy Conference, held in Manchester, April 4-6, 2006.
Was invited to chair the Social Issues in Marketing session at the Customer Research Academy Conference, held in Manchester, April 4-6, 2006.
Presented the paper "Relationships in Consultancy: Developing a Sustainable Competitive Advantage" at the European Marketing Academy Conference, held in Athens, May 23-26, 2006.
Evdhokia Karayanni, Ph.D.
Professor III, History
Attended the Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, Chicago, November 1-5, 2005.
Ourania Kouvou, Ph.D.
Instructor, Art
Presented the paper "Creativity, Collaboration and Communication" at the conference on Art in Early Childhood, held at Roehampton University, London.
Presented the paper "Child Art: An Investigation of the Historical Identity of an Influential Art Educational Practice" at the European Conference on Educational Research, held at University College, Dublin.
Presented the paper "The Historical Identity of the Child Art Theory" at the first conference of the Museum of Greek Child Art, held in Athens.
Published three articles: in the International Journal of Education Through Art, vol. 2, issue 3; in the Education-line database; and in the Proceedings of the 31st Congress of the International Association for Education Through Art.
Elizabeth Landridge-Noti, Ph.D.
Professor I, Archaeology and Art History
Received a grant from the Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University, for excavation work at Geraki during the summer of 2006.
Received a grant from the 1984 foundation to work towards the completion of a manuscript on the Eucharides Painter, 2005-2006 academic year.
Continued her project as pottery analyst at the Geraki excavation.
Published her third preliminary report on the historical period pottery from Geraki as part of the article "Geraki, an Acropolis Site in Laconia: A Preliminary Report on the Tenth Season (2004)" in Pharos 12, 2004. The article was jointly written with J. Crouwel, et al.
Presented the paper "Who Decides? Macro-explorations into the micro-biographies of Attic vases" at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, March 2006.
Presented the paper "Turning the Interpretive Wheel: Questions from Pottery in Context" for the faculty research seminar series of The American College of Greece, March 2006.
Anastasia Logotheti, Ph.D.
Professor I, English
Organized and chaired the panel "Writing Hellas: Modern Greece in 20th Century Travel Narratives" at Borders & Crossings VI, the 6th International Conference on Travel Writing at the University of Palermo, Italy, September 7-9, 2006.
Presented the paper "Appropriating 'Paradise Terrestrea' The Imperialist Discourse of Lawrence Durrell's Greek Island Books" at Borders & Crossings VI.
Presented the paper "Dangerous Liaisons? Collaboration on the College Campus and the Teaching of Research Skills" at Creating Knowledge IV: Empowering the Student Through Cross-Institutional Collaboration, an international active-learning conference held in Copenhagen, August 16-18, 2006.
Presented the paper "Dancing over the Chasm: Trauma and Survival in Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and Barker's Regeneration" at APEAA 2006, the 27th Conference of the Portuguese Association for Anglo-American Studies, held in Lisbon, April 27 and 28, 2006.
Helena Maragou, Ph.D.
Professor III, English
Presented the paper "The Political Implications of Greek Anti-Americanism" at the seminar "Anti-Americanism in Europe," organized by the Central European University in Budapest, September 2005.
Presented the paper "Rebel Author/Hired Pen: Louisa May Alcott and the Mid-century Popular Press" at the European Association of American Studies Conference, held in Cyprus, April 2006.
Attended the international American Studies Seminar "Engaging the New American Studies," organized by the University of Birmingham, May 11-13, 2006.
Evangeline Mourelatos
Professor I, English
Published the paper "The Ethical Tutor: Plagiarism and the Role of the Writing Center" in the Proceedings of the 3rd Bi-annual Conference of the European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing, November 2005.
Eleni Patra, Ph.D.
Professor II, Management,
Business Administration
Presented the paper "Problems that Arise for Managers and Worker Representatives from the Regulation of Industrial Relations in the European Company (Societas Europeae- SE)" at the conference "Consequences and Implications of the European Company Statute for the National States and the EU," at Athens University of Economics and Business, Center of Industrial Relations and Negotiations, July 12-14, 2006.
Presented the paper "Human Resource & Industrial Relations Development in Family Business: The Case of Greece," co-authored with Christos. A. Ioannou, at the International Industrial Relations Association 14th World Congress, held in Lima Peru, September 11-14, 2006.
Co-authored the paper "Factors of Efficiency of several tools on the Administration of the Ageing Workforce. Their Consequences in the Case of Small and Medium Enterprises and the Self-Employed," for KEK GSEBEE, Athens, July 20, 2006. The co-author was Christos A. Ioannou.
Theophano Patra, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor
Co-authored the paper "Economic Variables and Stock Market Returns: Evidence from the Athens Stock Exchange," published in the Journal of Applied Financial Economics. The co-author was Professor Sunil Poshakwale.
Ioanna Patsioti-Tsacpounidis, Ph.D.
Professor I, Philosophy
Published the paper "The Aretaic Aspect of Human Happiness in Aristotle" in the book Essays in Honour of Demetrios N. Koutras. Vita Contemplativa. Athens, 2006.
Published the paper "The Essence of Human Existence in the Nichomachean Ethics"in the book C Aneooioaeee? Ceee?: CeeeU IeeiiU?aea. University of Cyprus, 2006.
Published the paper "The Role of Phantasia in Aristotle's Ethics" in the journal Skepsis, XVII, 2006, a special issue in honor of Myrto Dragona-Monachou, Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Athens and Crete.
Published the paper "The Metaphysics of Metaphor: Commentary on O'Rourke" in the Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, vol. XXI, 2005.
Elly Pirocacos, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Philosophy
Presented the paper "Global Ethics" at the 1st International Conference on Applied Ethics, held in Theologou, Greece, July 7-9, 2006.
Presented the paper "Moral Education: What Can We Learn from the Greeks?" at the 32nd Annual Conference of the Association of Moral Education held in Fribourg, Switzerland, July 5-7, 2006.
Presented the paper "Global Ethics and Moral Tolerance" at the International Conference on Global Ethics organized by the University of Ghent, Center for Ethics and Value Inquiry, in Belgium, April 26-29, 2006.
Angeliki Pollali, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Art History
Submitted the chapter "Classical Mistranslations: The Absence of a Modular System in Calvo's De Architectura" for publication in Rethinking the High Renaissance, Penn State University Press.
Presented the paper "Fantasia in Francesco di Giorgio's Trattati" at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco, March 23-25, 2006.
Chaired the panel "Looking at the Overlooked in Quattrocento Architecture and Architectural Treatises IV: Filarete" at the 52nd Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America in San Francisco, March 23-25, 2006.
Presented the paper "Phantasia vs. Mimesis in the Art and Theory of Renaissance Italy" at the 4th International Philosophical Conference, organized by the American College of Greece and Boston College and held in Athens, July 1-2, 2005.
Stamatina Stathopoulou, Ph.D.
Instructor, Psychology
Co-authored the paper "EEG Neurofeedback: A Brief Overview and an Example of Peak Alpha Frequency Training for Cognitive Enhancement in the Elderly," published in The Clinical Neuropsychologist (Taylor & Francis). The co-authors were Efthymios Angelakis, Jennifer Frymiare, Deborah Green, Joel Lubar, and John Kounios.
Contributed a chapter about the healing process in adults after childhood sexual abuse to the book "Ioooeeu: I?e DeU," AeecieeU AnUiiaoa, 2006.
Vassiliki Stephanides
Professor I, Business Administration
Conducted weekend seminars on Value-Based Education for educators in Austria, Bosnia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Russia and Switzerland as a member of the ESSE Institute, a European non-profit organization in Copenhagen, which promotes training in education about human values.
Alexandra Thalassis, Ph.D.
Professor III, History and Greek
Presented the paper "Can Women Write about Men?" at a conference on women's discourse organized by the philology department of the Demokritos University of Thrace, May 26-28, 2006.
Attended the seminar "Homer Across the Curriculum: The Iliad," led by Professors Gregory Nagy and Kenneth Scott Morrell and organized by the Council of Independent Colleges. The conference was held at the Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Washington, D.C.
Katerina Thomas, Ph.D.
Dean, Graduate and Undergraduate Faculties of Liberal Arts, Professor II, Archaeology and Art History
Led the excavation of a pre-Roman necropolis at the Brown University excavation of the site of Tongobriga in Portugal, June 18-July 15, 2006.
Participated in the department and division chairs workshop organized by the Council of Independent Colleges in Waltham, Massachusetts, May 31-June 2, 2006.
Nicolette Trahoulia, Ph.D.
Professor I, Art History
Presented the paper "Picturing Desire: Objects of the Byzantine Bedchamber" at the 21st International Congress of Byzantine Studies, held in London, August 2006.
Haris Vlavianos, Ph.D.
Professor III, History
Was honored by the Italian literary journal Poesia, which dedicated a section of its September 2006 issue to his poetry.
Published the essay "John Ashbery: In the Convex Mirror of Language," in American Poetry in Greece, August 2006.
Published essays, translations and poems in the following journals: Nea Estia, January 2006; Entefktirio, June 2006; To Dendro, June 2006; Cogito, February 2006; and Poiisi, June 2006.
Published the poem "The Surface of Things: Poema in Dez Faces" in a privately published collectors' edition, each copy of which contained two drawings by painter Jannis Psychopedis.
Konstantinos N. Vonatsos, Ph.D.
Professor I, Graduate Faculty, Finance
Co-authored the paper "Decision Rules for Allocating a Limiting Factor Across Two Products in a Stochastic Production Environment: A Real Options Approach," published in the Accounting and Business Research Journal, September 2005. The co-authors were M.A. Bowe and S. Zarkos.
Published the paper "Analysis of a Three-Dimensional Interactive Boundary Layer Developing on a Curved Surface (Chris-Cross Interaction)" in the Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, September 2005.
Was invited to give the research presentation, "Multinomial Models and Finite-Difference Schemes: A Unifying Approach" at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, April 2006.
Chryssa Zachou, Ph.D.
Adjunct Professor, Sociology
Presented two papers at the 16th World Congress of Sociology held in Durban, South Africa in July, 2006: "Global Villages: Communal Networks of Greeks in Diaspora," delivered to the Community Research Committee; and "Second Generation Albanian Immigrants in Greece", delivered to the Research Committee on Migration.
Co-authored the paper "Educational Success and Family Values: A Sociological Study of Second-Generation Albanian Immigrants", published in Foreign Students and their Educational Attainments, Atrapos, 2006.
Fay Zika, Ph.D.
Professor II, Philosophy
Published the paper "Moving Euthanasia to New Distinctions" in the journal Skepsis, XVII, 2006, a special issue in honor of Myrto Dragona-Monachou, Emeritus Professor of the Universities of Athens and Crete.
Presented the paper "Prosthetic Art: Challenges to Gender" at a conference on Women's Discourse organized by the Demokritean University of Thrace, May 2006.
Attended the annual conference and meeting of the British Society of Aesthetics at the University of Oxford, September 2006.
Published the articles "Mary, the Color Scientist" and "The Inner Garden of William Morris" in the Greek philosophy magazine Cogito, issue 4, February 2006.
New Faculty Appointments
Eight new members recently joined the faculty of the School of Arts and Sciences, the School of Business Administration and the Graduate School of The American College of Greece, recently. Six of the eight are holders of Ph.D. degrees:
Sophia Hilentzaris
MBA Instructor
Ph.D. University of Illinois at Chicago
Mari Janikian
Psychology
Ph.D. Northeastern University
Christos Koritos
Marketing
Ph.D. Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
Dimitris Leimonis
Accounting and Finance
MBA Drexel University
Mariella Papadatou-Pastou
Psychology
MS University of Oxford
Iliana Stamogiannou
Counselling Psychology and Psychotherapy
Psych.D., Surrey University
Magdalini Soureli
MBA Instructor
Ph.D. The University of Manchester
Pavlos Vlachos
Marketing
Ph.D. Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB)
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