Antonia (Ada) Dialla
Visiting Fellow, Fall 2019
- AffiliationAthens School of Fine ArtsResearch Project:The Greek Revolution, the Russian Empire and the New Global Flows: Recentering the Margins in the Age of Revolutions
Dr. Ada Dialla is Associate Professor of European History at the Department of Theory and History of Art, School of Fine Arts (Athens) and until recently was chair of the Department. She has studied History at the School of History, State University of Moscow (Lοmonosov) (B.A. and M.Sc.), at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens and at the Department of Political Science of the University of Athens. From 2004 until 2009 she was the director of the Historical Archives of the University of Athens. She was a visiting researcher at the Russian Academy of Science (St Petersburg), at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris) and at the Jordan Center for Advanced Studies in Russia of New York University. She is a member of the Scientific Committee and the Editorial board of the journal Historein. A Review of the Past and Other Stories. She is a founding member and chairman of the Athens based Governing Board of the Research Center for the Humanities. She is a member of the Supervisory Committee of the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice. Her main research interests are 19th and 20th century Russian and European history and politics (with emphasis on transnational history, Empire and Nationalism), Russian-Greek trans-cultural relations, history of humanitarian interventions and Humanitarianism, and Russian/Soviet history of historiography. Her recent book is co-authored with Alexis Heraclides and is entitled Humanitarian Intervention in the Long Nineteenth Century. Setting the Precedent (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2015).
About the Research Project
The Greek Revolution, the Russian Empire and the New Global Flows: Recentering the Margins in the Age of Revolutions
My main aim while at Princeton was to work on my forthcoming monograph (book) provisionally entitled “The Greek Revolution, the Russian Empire and the New Global Flows: Recentering the margins in the Age of Revolutions”. During the period of the fellowship, I was able to analyze data collected in Russian, British and Greek Archives. I used my stay at Princeton to expand and enrich my bibliographical references working mainly at the Firestone Library. I used my free teaching and free administrative time to work further on individual chapters of the forthcoming book.
My research aims is to re-center the Greek Revolution of 1821 by placing it in the midst of a longer revolutionary narrative and in the middle of a new global politics. The emphasis is on the Russian-Greek nexus, especially as it developed in the understudied but formative years 1815-1821. In doing so it will expand the geographic scope of the Greek Revolution and it will incorporate the Russian and Eurasian perspective as a byway to the global perspective. By perceiving the Greek Revolution from a Russian and Eurasian perspective, the project tries to expand the space of intellectual exchanges and intercommunication during the Age of Revolutions (19th century). In doing so it aims at tracing a more complex and polycentric European historical-intellectual map. Thus we will hopefully end up with a more polycentric perception of the Age of Revolutions stretching from the Americas to the Caspian, and from Lebanon to St. Petersburg. In the midst of it all, and hardly in its margins, were the Greeks and what Greece was to become, the prototype nation-state in Europe and beyond.
Publications
Η Ρωσική Αυτοκρατορία και ο ελληνικός κόσμος: Τοπικές, ευρωπαϊκές και παγκόσμιες ιστορίες στην Εποχή των ΕπαναστάσεωνAlexandria Pubications,