Modern Greek Studies Association
The Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) is a scholarly organization for modern Greek studies in North America. It was founded in 1968.
It is interdisciplinary, covering language, history, politics, economics, society, and the arts of modern Greece, broadly defined.
The MGSA sponsors the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (1983- , ISSN 0738-1727, e-ISSN 1086-3265), the only scholarly periodical to focus exclusively on modern Greece. It covers Greek history, society, politics, and culture from the late Byzantine period to the present. Choice reviews has praised it as "a magnificent scholarly journal".
Its biennial symposia are a focus for scholars of modern Greece in North America.
List of presidents
The following have served as President of the Modern Greek Studies Association:
- 1970–1973: Edmund Keeley; first term
- 1980–1982: Edmund Keeley; second term
- 1985–1988: Nikiforos Diamandouros
- 2012–2014: Gonda Van Steen
- Current: Franklin L. Hess
External links
- MGSA official site
- Journal of Modern Greek Studies official site; also available online at MUSE (by subscription)