Centre for Hellenic Studies

The Centre, which is now the largest department of its kind in Britain, has a distinguished tradition of scholarship since 1919 in the fields of Modern Greek and Byzantine history, language and literature. In the 2001 and 2008 Research Assessment Exercises , as part of a unit with the Department of Classics, the Centre was ranked in the top four in the UK; in 2001 (again with Classics) we received a top grade of 24 in the QAA Subject Review of Teaching. We have over 40 students, most of whom are graduates. We have a close association with the British Academy research project on the Prosopography of the Byzantine World and cooperate with some fifty academic and cultural partners in the UK, Greece, Cyprus and elsewhere. The Centre's publication series with Ashgate has produced 13 volumes on Byzantine and Modern Greek topics between 1993 and 2009. We also have close links with and support the work of the Centre for Language, Discourse & Communication. 

Students in the department participate fully in the induction and training programmes offered by the School Graduate Programme. Weekly departmental seminars are held in Modern Greek Studies, at which graduate research students present their work in progress; Byzantine graduates present their work in intercollegiate meetings at the Institute of Classical Studies.

The holdings of King's Burrows Library of Byzantine & Modern Greek Studies (at the Maughan Library) are among the strongest outside Greece, with particular strengths in 19th-century books and periodicals.

AHRC; Graduate School and School of Humanities studentships and bursaries; Stavros S. Niarchos Scholarship; Robert Browning Memorial Fund Postgraduate Scholarship (not awarded every year); for students of Greek nationality: State Scholarships Foundation (IKY).