Dr. Alexandros (Aleko) Kyrou is Professor of History at Salem State University, in Salem, Massachusetts, where he teaches on the Balkans, Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire. Professor Kyrou has published multiple book chapters, journal articles, and review essays that focus on famine relief in Axis-occupied Greece, Greek America and Balkan Diasporas, Orthodox Christianity and the origins of international humanitarianism, war and peace in Byzantium, and US foreign policy in Southeastern Europe.

His academic and policy publications have appeared in Mediterranean Quarterly: A Journal of Global Issues, Political Science Quarterly, The Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Journal of Modern Hellenism, Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Journal of Political and Military Sociology, The Review of Faith and International Relations, and Foreign Affairs: Hellenic Edition, among others. A former Associate Editor of Journal of Modern Hellenism, Dr. Kyrou has written more than eighty essays, commentaries, and book reviews on Greek history, Byzantine civilization, and Ottoman history and Turkish politics, as well as the Armenian and Greek Genocides for cultural, civic, and professional publications, including The Huffington Post and The American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History.

He has guest lectured at Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and Oxford Universities, and has been interviewed and quoted in several major media publications, including The New York Times and Vanity Fair. He has held research fellowships in the Program in Hellenic Studies at Princeton University and at the Kokkalis Program on Southeastern and East-Central Europe at Harvard University. He holds a Ph.D. in East European History from Indiana University and is an alumnus of Indiana University’s Russian and East European Institute.