Krystallia Markaki

Position: Adjunct Lecturer

Email: kmarkaki@uth.gr

 

 

Krystallia Markaki holds a PhD in modern and contemporary history. She graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and subsequently completed her postgraduate and doctoral studies at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences with a scholarship from the State Scholarships Foundation (IKY). In 2024, she completed her postdoctoral research at the Democritus University of Thrace, with a reciprocal scholarship (under the research program “Observatory for the Greek Revolution,” where she was the principal researcher focusing on the reception of 1821 by the applied and fine arts in the contemporary era). This work is currently being published by Asini Publishing. Her articles and book reviews have also been published in both Greek and international volumes and journals.

Her research interests revolve around the following areas: aesthetics, design, material culture, tradition, historical culture, displacement and refugee issues, gender studies, philanthropy, the historicity of childhood, play, education, publishing, and public history.

She has participated in international conferences (such as Université Paris 13, International Toy Research Association, 8th World Conference, “Toys and Material Culture – Hybridization, Design and Consumption,” Paris), international research workshops (such as Princeton University, Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, “Works in Progress: New Approaches,” Princeton, New Jersey), and symposia (such as the International Olympic Academy in cooperation with the Center for Hellenic Studies at Harvard University, international symposium, “Sports, Society, and Culture: Revisiting the Past, Understanding the Present”).

She has also participated as a speaker and as a member of scientific/organizing committees in national conferences (such as “Philanthropy and Modern Hellenism – Aspects and Interpretations of Philanthropy from the 18th to the 21st Century,” and “Memory and Celebration: Public History and the Shaping of Historical Culture”). Since 2018, she has been a member of the International Toy Research Association (ITRA).