Gonda Van Steen

Gonda Aline Hector Van Steen (born 8 April 1964 in Aalst, Belgium) is a Belgian-American classical scholar and linguist, who specialises in ancient and modern Greek language and literature. Since 2018, she has been Koraes Professor of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language and Literature, the first woman to hold this position, and Director of the Centre for Hellenic Studies at King's College London. She previously held the Cassas Chair in Greek Studies at the University of Florida, and taught at the University of Arizona and at Cornell University. She has also served as the President of the Modern Greek Studies Association (2012–2014). Since 2013, she has been leading a campaign (Nostos for Greek Adoptees) to restore records and Greek citizenship to Greek-born adoptees, which culminated in a Greek legal change published on 2 May 2025.

In the Fall of 2022, Gonda Van Steen was a Residential Fellow at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study in Uppsala, Sweden.

Selected works Translated into Greek as Ζητούνται παιδιά από την Ελλάδα: Υιοθεσίες στην Αμερική του Ψυχρού Πολέμου, Potamos editions, 2021. .