Previously Coordinator of Italian in the Humanities/CLCC at Imperial College; established and developed the teaching of Italian language and culture since 1987.
EDUCATION
Doctorate in Italian-Greek Social History during the Second World War. PhD title : The Socio-Economic Impact of the Italian Occupation of Syros, 1941-43. Supervisor: Prof. Mark Mazower. Birkbeck College.
MA in Social History of Working Class Movements in the 19th and 20th Centuries, from the LSE.
BA Hons. in Modern Languages, Politics and History, University of Westminster.

Since 2015 Teaching Modern European History on the Evening Class programme


Publications:
Mussolini's Greek Island: Fascism and the Italian Occupation of Syros in World War II (International Library of War Studies) published by B Tauris 2009
Paperback version of Mussolini's Greek Island due to be published by IB Tauris 2014
Greek version of Mussolini's Greek Island published by Alexandria Publications, Athens 2013
Current research interests:
Following on from the making of the documentary film with interviews and supporting footage shot on location in Greece: 'A Basket of Food. Greece in the 1940s', the film was re-edited and renamed 'The Forgotten Greek Famine' and distributed in 2015. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JGYJZFkzVGg
Future documentary research and production of a film on the subject of: Contemporary Greece and the debt crisis.
Conference papers on Italo-Greek relations in World War II, memory and how memories of the war have affected attitudes to the present crisis.