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Spyridon G. Ploumidis was born in Ioannina (Greece) in 1974. He received his BA from the Department of History, Ionian University (Corfu) in 1996. In 2000 he got an MA degree in Nationalism and Identity from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL). In May 2004 he completed his PhD course at the University of London. He has taught modern history at the Faculty of Balkan Studies, University of Western Macedonia (Florina), and the Faculty of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina. In April 2008 he completed his Postgraduate course at the Faculty of History, Ionian University (Corfu). In September 2009 he became a Lecturer in Modern Greek History at the Department of History and Archaeology, School of Philosophy, University of Athens. In March 2015, he has been upgraded to the rank of the Assistant Professor. His regular courses are: 19th and 20th century history of Central and Eastern Europe (II 112); Ethnic Symbiosis and Minorities in Greece and the Balkans ( 135); Modern Greek History, 15th and 20th century (II 20); Modern Greece in the Inter-war Period, 1922-40: Social History and Political Institutions (post-graduate seminar 1043). His main research interests include the historical sociology of Greek nationalism; Greco-Bulgarian relations; ethnic symbiosis and minorities in the Balkans; political and social history of inter-war Greece. Some of his recent publications are: : (1878-1906) [Ethnic Symbiosis in the Balkans: Greeks and Bulgarians in Plovdiv (1878-1906)], Athens: Patakis, 2006; 1924-25: [The Greco-Bulgarian Crisis of 1924-25: The War of Rustling], Athens: Gordios, 2006; British propaganda towards Greece (1940-1944), Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 6/4 (December 2006): 407-26; . (1927-46) [Land and Memory in the Balkans: Peasantist Nationalism in Greece and Bulgaria, 1927-46], Athens: Patakis, 2011; Agrarian politics in inter-war Greece: The stillborn peasant parties (1923-36), Studia Universitatis Cibiniensis. Series Historica 9 (2012): 57-87; Peasantist Nationalism in inter-war Greece (1927-41), Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 37/1 (2013): 111-29; Corporatist ideas in inter-war Greece: From theory to practice (1922-1940), European History Quarterly 44/1 (2014): 55-79; The peasant Bulgar vs. the bourgeois Greek: Social dimensions of the Greco-Bulgarian controversy in the Balkans (1870-1912), tudes balkaniques LI/1 (2015): 108-25; (1936-1941), [The Ioannis Metaxas Regime, 1936-1941], Athens: Hestia, February 2016. : ,

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1891-1922, [The Mysteries of the Aegeid: The Asia Minor Issue in Greek Politics, 1891-1922], Athens: Hestia, February 2016. Address: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens School of Philosophy Department of History and Archaeology Panepistimioupoli Zographou 157 84 Athens Greece tel. ++30 210 72 77 438 (office) fax. ++30 210 72 77 954 E-mails: sploum@otenet.gr sploumid@arch.uoa.gr