Modern and Contemporary History and History of Art

Dimitra Lampropoulou studied History and Archaeology at the NKUA, where she also completed her PhD in contemporary Greek history. She is the author of the books Writing from the Prison. Facets of Political Detainees’ Subjectivity, 1947-1960 (in Greek, Athens 1999) and Construction Workers. The People who Built Athens, 1950-1967 (in Greek, Athens 2009), and the co-editor of the volumes Memory Narrates the City. Oral History and the Memory of Urban Space and Rhetorics of Work (Pisa 2008). She has also co-edited special issues of the journals Historein and Ta Istorika. She has published articles in Greek and English in collective volumes and historical journals and participated in a large number of interdisciplinary research projects in Greece and the EU. Since 2019 she has been participating in the research network COST Action 18119 “Who Cares in Europe?” [https://whocaresineurope.eu/].  Her research area is the social and cultural history of nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on the history of youth, education, social movements and welfare, labour history, oral history and memory. She has been supervising PhDs and Postgraduate Dissertations that enrich the above research fields.   D. Lampropoulou is a founding member of the Greek Oral History Association and member of Contemporary Social History Archives (ASKI), the Journal Historein, and the European Labour History Network (ELHN).