University of Minnesota
Department of History
history@umn.edu
612-624-2800


Department of History's home page.

Theofanis Stavrou

612-624-5734
Department of History 1224 HellerH

Specialties

  • modern Greece
  • modern Balkan and Greek-Slavic relations
  • Eastern Orthodoxy
  • Modern Greek studies
  • religious history in modern Russia
  • Russian history
  • Russian and Ottoman empires

Publications

  • Greece Prepares for the Twenty-First Century. Stavrou, Theofanis G, Dimitri Constas, Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.
  • Russian Travelers to the Orthodox East from the Twelfth to the Twentieth Century. Stavrou, Theofanis G, Peter Weisensel, Slavica Publishers, 1986.
  • Redefining Southeastern Europe: Political Challenges and Economic Opportunities. Stavrou, Theofanis G, John Lampe, 1998.

Professional Activities

  • Founder and editor, Modern Greek Studies.

Awards

  • College of Liberal Arts Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 1976
  • Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature Award
  • Morse Amoco/Alumni Teaching Award, University of Minnesota, 2000

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3637 - Modern Russia: From Peter the Great to the Present
  • Hist 3767 - Eastern Orthodoxy: History and Culture
  • Hist 5264 - Imperial Russia: Formation and Expansion of the Russian Empire in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Alternative Output Formats Alternative Output Formats

Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

    CohenMedl02-thumb-350x262-20924.jpg
    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009
  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

    June 5th, 2009
  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

    June 5th, 2009

View All