Department of History and Archaeology

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Nikos Sigalas is specialised in Ottoman and Modern Greek History. He holds a PhD from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales – EHESS, Paris, where he had also concluded his graduate and masters’ studies (DEA). Between 2003 and 2014 he lived in Turkey, first as a fellow of the French Institute for Anatolian Studies (IFEA) and then collaborating with the German Orient-Institut of Istanbul. Since 2005, he is an affiliated member of the Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC) of EHESS. Since 2024 he is a post-doctoral researcher at the Institute of Mediterranean Studies (IMS / FORTH) in Rethymno. He has published numerous studies on mass violence, nationalism, the history of political concepts, historiography, history of religion, historical linguistics and the history of literature.