I am an Associate Professor of History and the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University. In 2012, then graduate student Chris Grafos and I co-founded the Greek Canadian History Project, which in 2021 evolved into the HHF Greek Canadian Archives. I teach and research in Modern Greek and Greek Canadian history, on economic and social history, British colonialism, migration and diaspora history. A monograph, Xenocracy: State, Class and Colonialism in the Ionian Islands, 1815-1864 (Berghan, 2016), was published in Greek as “Ξενοκρατία. Οικονομία, Κοινωνία, και Κράτος στα Επτάνησα (1815-1864), while in more recent publications I explore historical issues in Greek Canadian history and the history of the 1821 Greek Revolution.

Alexandros Balasis is pursuing a PhD in History at York University. He completed his undergraduate studies in History at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. At the same time, he holds a second master’s degree from York University, focusing on Greek post-Second World War migration to Canada. He has worked as a researcher in Istorima, Greece’s largest oral history archive. His research interests center around transoceanic migration, focusing on migrants’ agency and their interactions with migration policies.

Angelo Nicholas Laskaris is a PhD Candidate in History working under the supervision of Professor Athanasios Gekas at York University. His current research investigates childhood memories and experiences of Greek Canadians during the 1940s in Greece. His work takes a multidisciplinary approach that encompasses the fields of oral history, migration, and diaspora studies. Angelo Laskaris holds an MA in History from York University (2020) and a BA in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto (2019).

Vasilis (Bill) Molos holds the Chair of Liberal Studies at the University of Guelph-Humber. He served as the Director and Research Lead of the HHF Greek Canadian Archives at York University from 2022 to 2025. In this role, he oversaw the archive’s operations, promoted and facilitated research on its collections, and built strategic partnerships with donors and collaborators. Before this role, he taught history at New York University Abu Dhabi, New York University, and Fordham University. His primary fields of interest include modern Greek history, identity, transnational and connected histories, and writing history from the margins. His forthcoming book manuscript is titled The Russian Mediterranean: Shaping Sovereignty and Selfhood on the Island of Paros, and is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.

Alexandra Mourgou is a Postdoctoral Researcher at York University, holding the Liberal Arts and Professional Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship, working on her project ‘Musical Geographies and the Greek Canadian Experience in Toronto. Places, Cultures, & Diasporic Identities’. Her research interests and publications focus mainly on urban, cultural, and historical geography, and more specifically on the interconnections between space and music. She received a joint Ph.D. degree in cultural geography at the National Technical University of Athens and University Paris 1 Panthéon- Sorbonne (joint degree) in February 2022. She holds a master’s in architecture at the N.T.U.A. and a post-master’s degree in Urbanism at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d’ Architecture de Paris La Villette.

Effrosyni Rantou is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at York University in Toronto. Rantou has a B.A. from Panteion University, Athens, and a M.A. from The New School, New York. Her work in Social Anthropology focuses on aspects of migration and borders, humanitarian aid as a state of exception and alternative forms of citizenship. Currently, her doctoral research explores subterranean politics, vertical and horizontal material dynamics and the formation of political subjectivities. She is interested in particular, in tracking the cross-scale relations between the disconnected subterranean practices with the politics and notions of everyday life by looking at the ways mines operate as vibrant political borders and maps through which systems of power redistribute socio political tensions at the local, national and international levels. Her research is supported by the Onassis Foundation.

Theo Xenophontos is a PhD Candidate in the Cinema & Media Studies program at York University. He holds a BA from the University of Toronto (double major in Cinema Studies and English, with a minor in History) and a MA in Cinema & Media Studies from York University. He currently works for the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Greek Canadian Archives and is helping to establish their Cypriot Canadian collection. Previously, he has worked with such organizations as Archive/Counter-Archive and Vtape. His writing can be read in Found Footage Magazine and Ergon. He can be heard on the podcast "Cyprus: An Island Divided."