[MGSA-L] New Year's Wishes and Announcements from the MGSA: Welcoming Our New Editorial Team and Our New Executive Director

Wed Jan 2 12:06:25 PST 2019

Dear Frank,

Thanks for your email and to all who have worked in leadership and less
visible positions for Modern Greek Studies. I want to add Nick Geller to
the list of editors to thank. He has been outstanding in his role as the
JMGS copy editor since the fall issue of 2015. Authors who worked with him
know this.

Good luck to the new editors Johanna Hanink and Antonis Ellinas and
Associate editors Nektaria Klapaki and  Olga Dimitriou, to the book review
editors Kostis Kourelis and Katerina Lagos for another year at work, and to
Vangelis Calotychos as the new Executive Director of the MGSA.

Happy new year to all, and thanks for your cooperation with the JMGS these
past 5 years.

Artemis
Artemis Leontis
<https://lsa.umich.edu/classics/people/departmental-faculty/aleontis.html>
Chair, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
C. P. Cavafy Professor of Modern Greek and Comparative Literature
<https://lsa.umich.edu/modgreek/about-us/c-p--cavafy-professorship.html>

Eva Palmer Sikelianos: A Life in Ruins
<https://press.princeton.edu/titles/13287.html>

Department of Classical Studies <https://lsa.umich.edu/classics>|
University of Michigan
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On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 2:59 PM Hess, Frank <flhess at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Dear colleagues,
>
>
> Please accept my wishes for a happy and prosperous new year!  Χρόνια πολλά
> και καλή χρονιά!  Many thanks for your continued support of the field of
> Modern Greek Studies and the Modern Greek Studies Association.
> Organizations are the sum of their members, and it is you who make our
> organization, its journal, and its symposium the successes that they are!
>
>
> The new year ushers in a period of transition for the Modern Greek Studies
> Association.  Both the editorship of the *Journal of Modern Greek Studies*
> and the Executive Director of our association are changing hands (see
> below).  Deadlines for the 2019 Symposium in Sacramento are also rapidly
> approaching.  The deadline for individual abstracts is January 15, and the
> deadline for panels and for special sessions is January 31.  Katerina
> Lagos, the Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee has secured a
> wonderful downtown venue in sunny and warm Sacramento and is planning a
> rich program.   It should be an excellent conference!
>
>
> January is also transition time at the *Journal of Modern Greek Studies*.
> Please join me in welcoming the new editorial team of our journal.  The new
> co-editors of the journal are Johanna Hanick of Brown University, Editor
> for the Humanities, and Antonis Ellinas of the University of Cyprus, Editor
> for the Social and Behavioral Sciences.  They will be assisted by Nektaria
> Klapaki of the University of Washington, Associate Editor for the
> Humanities, and Olga Demetriou of Durham University, Associate Editor for
> the Social and Behavioral Science.  Katerina Lagos and Kostis Kourelis will
> be continuing as the Book Review Editors for the Humanities and the Social
> and Behavioral Sciences respectively.  To our incoming editorial team, I
> would like to express how deeply we appreciate your willingness to assume
> the responsibilities of these positions and how much we look forward to
> working with you to assure the journal’s continued excellence.
>
>
> I would also like to take this opportunity to thank the outgoing editorial
> team for their years of dedication and service.  We truly owe a debt of
> gratitude to Artemis Leontis and Tom Gallant, our two outgoing co-editors.
> Artemis oversaw the Humanities from 2014 and Tom the Social and Behavior
> Sciences from 2016.  Likewise, we are indebted to their respective
> Associate Editors, Karen Emmerich and Elizabeth Davis, who have been in
> their posts since 2012.  The outgoing editorial team ran the journal with a
> high degree of professionalism and maintained the highest intellectual
> standards.  Their contribution to our field in this capacity has been
> immense.  A special thanks is due to Artemis for her tireless work over the
> past few months to secure a smooth and effective transition between the
> incoming and outgoing editorial teams.
>
>
> It is my pleasure, also, to officially welcome Vangelis Calotychos as the
> new Executive Director of the Modern Greek Studies Association.  Vangelis
> brings a wealth of experience, expertise, insight, and industriousness to
> his new position.  Along with the rest of the Executive Board, I am very
> excited to have the opportunity to work with him for the remainder of our
> term and am pleased that his steady hand will be at the helm of our ship
> moving forward.
>
>
> Last, I would like to extend my most sincere thanks to our outgoing
> Executive Director, Gonda Van Steen, who is stepping down from this
> position because of her new responsibilities as the Koraes Chair of Modern
> Greek and Byzantine History at King’s College.  Over the past 20 years
> Gonda has left an indelible mark on the Modern Greek Studies Association
> holding such posts as Co-Chair of the Program Committee for the Chicago
> Symposium (with Neovi Karakatsanis), President of the MGSA (2011-2014), and
> most recently Executive Director (2014-2019).  In each of these posts,
> Gonda has helped to establish governing principles, to streamline and
> rationalize bureaucracy, and to increase professionalism.  I sincerely hope
> that she is given the opportunity, from her new perch, to similarly
> contribute to the field of Modern Greek Studies in Great Britain and in
> Europe more generally.
>
>
> Sincerely,
>
>
> Frank
>
>
> Franklin L. Hess
>
> President, Modern Greek Studies Association
>
> Coordinator, Modern Greek Program
>
> Senior Lecturer, Institute for European Studies
>
> Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies
>
> Indiana University Bloomington
>
> 
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