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Paraskevas Matalas serves as an Assistant Professor of Modern History within the Department of History and Archaeology at the Faculty of Arts, University of Crete. His contact details include email matalas@uoc.gr, office 61, and telephone 28310-77340, with office hours held Tuesdays and Thursdays from 16:00-17:30.
His academic foundation comprises undergraduate studies at the University of Athens' Faculty of Philosophy followed by postgraduate specialization in modern history at the University of Crete, where he completed his 2009 doctoral thesis on "Sparta: the history of a landscape and the landscape of History".
Matalas's scholarship centers on three interconnected domains: the historical development of national ideologies across Greece and Europe, the evolving representations of landscape through time, and the historiography of archaeological practice. His work consistently examines how religious frameworks—particularly Orthodox Christianity—intersect with landscape narratives and archaeological methodologies to shape national identities within Greek and broader European contexts.
Analysis of his recent publications reveals sustained engagement with philhellenism's intellectual currents, the politicization of religious institutions, and nationalism's material expressions. His research bridges Greek historical particularities with pan-European intellectual movements, especially concerning 19th-20th century nationalist thought and the reception of antiquity in modern identity formation.
His professional trajectory has been supported by significant research funding, notably a 2012-2015 postdoctoral fellowship administered jointly by the University of the Aegean and France's École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales for the project "From Paris to Athens: paths of nationalism in the early 20th century". No student advisement information is publicly documented.
Since 2010, Matalas has actively participated in the "Amyklaion Research Program", conducting interdisciplinary investigation into Sparta's ancient Amyklai sanctuary through combined archaeological fieldwork and historical analysis of the site's modern reception and 'discovery' narratives.
