Thomas Gallant

Thomas W. Gallant is a historian who specializes in modern Greek history and archaeology.

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. 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 Athens: A Social History