Stephanos Constantinides

Stephanos Constantinides (born February 28, 1941 in Cyprus) is a Canadian scholar.

Biography

Education

Stephanos Constantinides was educated at the University of Athens (BA in History and Literature), then in Paris at the Sorbonne. At the Sorbonne he studied Thucydides with famous scholar Jacqueline de Romilly, with whom he obtained a masters degree. In 1974 he obtained a Ph.D. in Political Sociology from the University of Paris I and in 1976 a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Paris II.

Career

He taught at Laval University, the University of Montreal and the University of Quebec at Montreal. He published several volumes including 'Les Grecs du Québec' and dozens of articles. He also edited several volumes in the areas of Sociology, History and Political Science. He was appointed Chairman of the Advisory Council on Cultural Communities and Immigration and Member of the Committee on the Implementation of the Action Plan of the Government of Quebec for Cultural Communities (CIPACC). He was also active in various community organizations. He is the Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies and Research Canada - KEEK and Academic Journal 'Hellenic Studies' He has published in three languages: French, Greek and English. He wrote poetry in Greek. 'Anthumes', a poetry collection, was translated by Jacques Bouchard, Professor of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Montreal with a introduction-analysis and explanatory notes. He is currently collaborating with the University of Crete on an education project on Greek Language and Civilization in the Hellenic Diaspora. Also he is a columnist in the leading greek newspaper in Cyprus, Phileleftheros.

Bibliography

Edited Volumes

• Stephanos Constantinides and Paris Arnopoulos, The Aegean Dispute, Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, 4 (2), Fall 1996.
• Stephanos Constantinides and Van Coufoudakis, Greek Foreign Policy since 1974: Theory and Praxis., Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies 5 (2), Fall 1997.
• Stephanos Constantinides and Athanassios Platia, Thucydides,The Classical Theorist of International Relations, Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies 6 (2), 1998, Fall 1998.
• Stephanos Constantinides and Jean Catsiapis Cyprus, Greece, Turkey. From The Summit of Helsinki to The Summit of Nice, Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, 9 (2), Spring 2001.
• Stephanos Constantinides and Kathryn Radford, Change in the Balkans, Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, 10 (2), Fall 2002.
• Stephanos Constantinides and Joseph Joseph, Cyprus and the European Union after accession, Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies 11 (2), Fall 2003.
• Stephanos Constantinides (in cooperation with Kathryn Radford Tassou and Thalia), Literature of the Periphery: The Case of Greece, Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1, 2005.

Publications

• Stephanos Constantinides, Le fait français et la réalité multiculturelle au Québec in Le Québec français et l'école à la clientèle pluriethnique, contributions à une réflexion, Conseil supérieur de la langue française, 1987.
• Stephanos Constantinides, Les Grecs du Quebec, Montreal, Editions O Metoikos - Le Métèque, 1983 (reference book on the subject). ISBN 2-920615-02-9
• Stephanos Constantnindes, Anthumes, Montréal, Editions O Metoikos - Le Métèque, 1984. ISBN 2-920615-91-2
• Stephanos Constantinides, The Emergence of a New Ottoman Model: A New Foreign Policy in Turkey, in The New Balkans: Disintegration and Reconstruction, edited by George A. Kourvetaris and aliases, Northern Illinois University, New York, East European Monographs, Boulder, 2002.
• Stephanos Constantinides, Diaspora and State-building in national Greek Armenians and Greeks in the diaspora, comparative approaches, edited by Michel Bruneau and Ioannis Hassiotis, French School of Athens, 2005.
• "Les Grecs du Québec et les Médias", in Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, Vol. I, No.1, Spring 1983.
• "Ethnicity and Cultural Pluralism", "in International Journal of Community action. Vol. 14/54 (1985).
• "From` ethnicity as ideological constructs, "in Canadian Ethnic Studies / Ethnic Studies in Canada, vol.XVIII, No. 2.1986
• "Turkey: The Emergence of a New Foreign Policy, The Neo-Ottoman Model," Journal of Political and Military Sociology, Winter 1996 (Northern Illinois University).
• "Greek Foreign Policy: Theoretical Directions and Practice", Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, Vol. 4 (1), Spring, 1996.
• "The Greek-Americans and U.S. Foreign Policy Since 1950" (in Cooperation With Alexander Kitroeff), Etudes helléniques / Hellenic Studies, Vol. 6 (1), Spring, 1998.