Charalampos Minasidis

Charalampos Minasidis is a Lecturer at the Hellenic Studies Program. His broader research interests include the social, cultural, and political history of war and violence, state-citizen relations, and the history of ideas. 

Minasidis’s current book project tentatively titled War and Minorities: Citizen-Soldiers, Discrimination, and Violence in the Ottoman Empire and Greece during the Long War (1911–1922) examines the human landscape of total mobilization via the social category of citizen-soldiers as a way of studying Greek and Ottoman society and the discrimination policies and practices of their respective states during the Long War (1911–1922). He is also the author of the book United States Policy on the Macedonian Question during the 1940s (2016; in Greek), the co-editor of the collective volume Greek Soldiers and the Asia Minor Campaign: Aspects of a Painful Experience (2022; in Greek), and the editor of the book A Jewish Officer on the Asia Minor Front: Unpublished Accounts of the Athenian Second Lieutenant Daniel Sevillias’s War Action and Death (2023; in both English and Greek). His research has also appeared in peer-reviewed journals and collective volumes. 

Minasidis completed his PhD in History at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to that he received a BA in History and Archaeology, a BA in Political Sciences and a Master in Balkan and Turkish History from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, and an MA in the History of Warfare from King’s College London. He has worked in various research projects and also held a European Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the Centre for War Studies and the School of History at University College Dublin, working on “CivilWars: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914–1949” ERC Advanced Grant Project. Before joining Yale he taught at the universities of Crete, Thessaloniki, and Texas.