In Memoriam | Vangelis Kechriotis ( 1969 - 2015)

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Vangelis Kechriotis /  Ph.D., 2005 University of Leiden 

Vangelis Kechriotis  ( b. 1969 Athens, Greece - 2015 Istanbul, Turkey), historian, at History Department, Boğaziçi University, husband to Ceyda and father to Rana tragically passed away.

Ottomanism with a Greek Face | Vangelis Kechriotis

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At the turn of the twentieth century, Turkish-speaking Greek intellectuals of Cappadocian origin found themselves between mutually opposed Turkish and Greek nationalist ideologies. Their unique cultural background and their belief in the promises of the Young Turk Revolution allowed them to develop an alternative brand of Greek identity, one that combined cultural Hellenism with political loyalty to the Ottoman State. But their hopes never came true, and as such, they have been written out of history and forgotten. In this episode, we talk to Vangelis Kechriotis about his latest research on Cappadocian Christians and other issues relating to late Ottoman Greek identity, exploring the fascinating careers and difficult political choices of those caught between competing nationalist discourses.

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Research Interests: 
Late Ottoman political and cultural history, Christians and Jewish communities, nationalism, the Balkans, port-cities, imperial ideology.

Selected Publications: 
‘On the margins of national historiography: The Greek İttihatçı Emmanouil Emmanouilidis – Opportunist or Ottoman patriot?’ in Amy Singer, Christoph K. Neumann, and S. Aksin Somel, (eds.), Untold Histories of the Middle East: Recovering Voices from the 19th and 20th Centuries. London: Routledge, 2011, 124-142.

Ahmet Ersoy, Maciej Gorny and Vangelis Kechriotis, (eds.), Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770-1945): Texts and Commentaries, vol. 3: Modernism, I. The creation of the nation state, II. Representations of national culture, CEU Press, 2010.

Educating the nation: Migration and Acculturation on the two Shores of the Aegean at the turn of the twentieth century’ in the volume Meltem Toksöz & Biray Kulluoğlu (eds), Cities of the Mediterranean: From the Ottomans to the Present Day, London, I.B. Tauris, 139-156, 2010.

Vangelis Kechriotis, Lorans Barouh (eds), Economy and Society on both shores of the Aegean, ALPHA Bank Economic History series, Athens, 2010.

‘The Late Ottoman Port Cities and Their Inhabitants: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders’, special issue co-edited by Malte Fuhrmann & Vangelis Kechriotis, Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 24/ 2, December 2009.
‘Protecting the city’s interest: The Greek-Orthodox and the conflict between Municipal and Vilayet authorities in Izmir (Smyrna) in the Second Constitutional in ‘The Late Ottoman Port Cities and Their Inhabitants: Subjectivity, Urbanity, and Conflicting Orders’, special issue co-edited by Malte Fuhrmann & Vangelis Kechriotis, Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 24/ 2, December 2009, 207-221. 

Vangelis Kechriotis, 1969 yılında Atina’da doğdu. Lisans eğitimini Atina Üniversitesi’nde Felsefe ve ayrıca Tarih ve Arkeoloji fakültelerinde tamamladı. Essex Üniversitesi Tarih ve Karşılaştırmalı Çalışmalar Bölümü’nden Karşılaştırmalı Tarih alanında master derecesi aldı. 1994-1995 akademik yılında Alexandros Onassis Vakfı bursuna layık görüldü. Doktorasını Atina Üniversitesi’nde ‘1897-1912 yıllarında İzmir’deki Yunan-Ortodoks Toplumun Kültürel Temsiliyeti ve Siyasi Aktiviteleri’ konusu üzerine yaptı. Bu çalışmayla Foundation of the Hellenic World tarafından bursa değer bulundu. 2002’de Leiden Üniversitesi Türkiye Çalışmaları programına kaydoldu. 2005 yılında Lieden Üniversitesi’nde ‘The Greeks of Izmir at the end of the Empire a non-Muslim Ottoman Community between autonomy and Patriotism’ başlıklı doktora tezini tamamladı.