Thomas W. Gallant is a historian who specializes in modern Greek history and archaeology.[1][2]
He is holder of the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair in Modern Greek History at the
University of California, San Diego. From 2002 to 2007 he held the Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair of Modern Greek History at
York University in
Toronto. Before that he was professor of Greek history and anthropology as well as a member of the Center for Greek Studies at the
University of Florida.[2]
He is the editor-in-chief of the ten-volume Edinburgh History of the Greeks, the co-director of the
UC San Diego Center for Hellenic Studies and a past president of the Modern Greek Studies Association.[1]
About the
1918 Toronto anti-Greek riot. The book was presented at the House of Commons, Canada in 2005 [3] and a documentary was shot in 2010 based on the book
Modern Greece: Society, Politics and Economy, translated into Greek as:
Νεωτέρη Ελλάδα. Μια κοινωνική και πολιτική ιστορία
Outlaws: Bandits, Pirates and the Making of the Modern World