Eirini Karamouzi| has been awarded the Pinto post-doctoral Fellowship for the year 2011-2012. The fellowship in contemporary international history lasts for one academic year and provides an opportunity for recent PhDs to benefit from a year of involvement with the LSE IDEAS community of scholars.
Karamouzi recently completed her PhD entitled 'Greece's Path to EEC membership, 1974-1979: The View from Brussels' at the International History department of LSE, and during her year at LSE IDEAS she aims to turn her thesis into a book manuscript. Her thesis on Greece's accession to the EEC represents a fascinating case-study of the history of enlargement, of European integration and finally of the Cold War in the late 1970s. It is the first detailed study of the EEC's second enlargement and is based on an extensive multi-archival and multinational research, including records of the Greek, American, British, French and German governments, of the EEC institutions (Commission, Council of Ministers) and a collection of personal papers.
Karamouzi has an MSc on European Politics and Governance from the LSE and a BA in History and Archaelogy from University of Athens. She is currently Book Review Editor for the Cold War History |Journal| and was until recently Programme assistant of the Balkans International Affairs Programme|. In May 2011, she organised an international conference on 'Balkans in the Cold War|' in Athens. She teaches at LSE and Queen Mary mostly on post-war Western Europe.
The Fellowship
The Pinto post-doctoral fellowship| was set up in 2009 and is intended to support young scholars to revise their thesis as a book manuscript. Pinto Fellows have full access to the LSE's library and other academic resources but are not eligible for financial aid or degrees. They may teach up to one class per term at LSE, for separate remuneration, if such arrangements are made with the LSE teaching department.
The stipend is £20,000 for the academic year. The Fellowship will provide shared office space at IDEAS. Non-EU/EEA citizens are welcome, but successful applicants bear final responsibility for all immigration-related issues. Pinto Fellows are expected to have completed their PhD in 2008 or sooner.