Eirini Karamouzi

Senior Lecturer in Contemporary History, University of Sheffield
I joined the University of Sheffield in September 2014. I hold an MSc in European Politics and Governance and a PhD in International History, both from LSE. I have held a A.G. Leventis Fellowship at SEESOX, St Anthony's College, Oxford (2014-15), a Max Weber Fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence (2013-14) and a Pinto Postdoctoral fellowship at LSE IDEAS (2011-12).

Before moving to Sheffield, I was a Lecturer of European Studies and History at Yale University and in 2019-2021, I was a Visiting Professor of History at the University of Tampere, Finland.

My first book Greece, the EEC and the Cold War, 1974-1979: The Second Enlargement reveals the rationale behind Europe's decision to accept Greece in its circle and details the dynamics of the accession negotiations in the evolving environment of detente and the rise of the Left in Southern Europe.

I am an expert in the history of European integration, Cold War, political and social history of Modern Greece, and Southern Europe.

My second project focused on peace movements and the role of activism in nuclear policy. I was Principal Investigator of the two-year project (2016-2018), 'Protest as democratic practice: peace movements in southern Europe, 1975-1990' (Max Batley Fellowship Awards scheme) with Prof Ziemann and Prof Grasso (Politics). Dr Giulia Quaggio was the Postdoctoral fellow of the project. I published different pieces in International History Review, Journal of Contemporary History and Cold War History.

Along with Luc-Andre Brunet we are running an AHRC networking grant (2022-2024) on ‘Global Histories of anti-nuclear activism in the Cold War’. We have published a special issue on Anti-nuclear activism in South Africa, and an edited volume Beyond the Euromissile Crisis: Global Histories of anti-nuclear activis (Berghahn, 2025), accompanied by a Open Learn MOOC on the same topic.

My latest research looks at the role of tourism as an alternative way of telling Greece’s post-war social, economic and cultural history, and I am cooperating with visual arts and heritage experts, as well as graphic designers and architects to build a Digital Exhibition on ‘Imagining Greece’.