Dr. Maria Georgopoulou, NBRI member

Maria Georgopoulou was trained in archaeology, history and art history at the University of Athens, the Sorbonne, and UCLA from where she holds a Ph.D. in art history. She taught at Yale University (1992-2004) where she also founded the Program for Hellenic Studies. Since 2004 she has been the Director of the Gennadius Library at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Her scholarly work, for which she has received grants and fellowships from the Fulbright, Getty, Mellon foundations, as well as Dumbarton Oaks and the National Humanities Center, explores the artistic and cultural interactions in the Mediterranean and the Balkans in the medieval and early modern period. Her monograph Venice’s Mediterranean Colonies. Architecture and Urbanism was published by Cambridge Universi-ty Press in 2001 and she has also co-edited Ottoman Athens. Archaeology, Topography, His-tory (2019). She has curated several exhibitions at the Gennadius Library: Ioannis Makriyannis. Vital Expression (2018), The Free and the Brave. American Philhellenes and the ‘Glorious Struggle of the Greeks’ (2021), and In the Name of Humanity. American Relief Aid in Greece, 1918-1929 (2023) with her colleagues Eleftheria Daleziou and Natalia Vogeikoff-Brogan. She is a member of the Board of Overseers of the Greek National State Archives, the Cyprus National Council of Research and Innovation, the Scientific Committee of the French Archaeological School of Athens, the Scientific Committee of the Laskaridis Foundation, and is an Archon of the Patriarchate of Alexandria. In the past, she served on the Board of Overseers of the National Library of Greece and the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL).