Demostenes Kontos
Born in Sparta, Greece, Professor Kontos immigrated to the United States as a teenager and attended high school in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. in history from North Park College (Chicago) and a M.A. in history from the University of Illinois and a Ph.D. in history, specializing in historiography, from the University of Cincinnati, Ohio.
Professor Kontos has taught European history at the University of South Dakota (1967-1969). The University of Cincinnati (1984-1985) and has been a Professor of history at SUNY Orange for forty years. At SUNY Orange he has taught courses in European History, The Middle East, Science, Technology and Society and World History. He was also organizer of our International Studies Program, for which he served as coordinator for a number of years.
His dissertation, “Konstantinos Paparrisopoulos and the Development of the Idea of the Greek Nation” is an intellectual study of the most important historian of Modern Greece. He has also published two other books: The Greeks in America: From Columbus to 1800 and Paparrigopoulos and Fallmayer (in Greek), which deals with the question of the Greek continuity in the nineteenth century. Finally, he is the author of a number of scholarly articles and book reviews.
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845-341-4370
demosthenes.kontos@sunyorange.edu