Naxos: Faculty

An immersion in humanities, social science and Greek language.

Elsa Amanatidou

Elsa serves as the Brown in Greece Summer Program Director.  Elsa Amanatidou joined the Brown Classics Department in 2001 after twenty years of working as a language teacher in Greece and the UK. In 2005, she was promoted to Senior Lecturer.  Since 2006 she additionally serves as Director of Brown’s Center for Language Studies.  From 1995 until 2001, she held the post of Head of Modern Greek Studies and Deputy Head at the Hellenic College of London, an independent, co-ed, bilingual school. Since 1989, she has held the posts of Examiner and Principal Examiner for GCSE, A Level and O Level public examinations in Modern Greek, in the U.K.

Keith Brown

Keith Brown received his doctorate from the University of Chicago.  He was awarded an M.A. in anthropology from the University of Chicago and his B.A. in Literae Humaniores (First Class Honours) from Oxford University (St. John’s College).  Keith Brown taught at Bowdoin College and the University of Wales before joining the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. He spent 1999-2000 as a senior fellow at the United States Institute of Peace in Washington D.C, and 2005-6 as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.

Konstantinos Kornetis

Konstantinos Kornetis received an M.A. with Distinction in the History of Southeastern Europe from University College London in 2000, after having studied History and Political Science at the Ludwig Maximilian's University in Munich, and War Studies and Modern Greek at King's College London. He spent research periods in France [Sorbonne/EHESS] and Spain ["Salvador de Madariaga" scholarship] and he was Visiting Global Scholar in History and Film Studies at N.Y.U. in 2001. He received his Ph.D. in History and Civilization from the European University

Byron MacDougall

After graduating with a BA in Classics from Harvard in 2007, Byron MacDougall taught for two years at the Dexter and Southfield Schools in Brookline, Massachusetts. As a Ph.D. student at Brown, Byron works on post-classical Greek literature and cultural history and took his special author exams on Augustine (with Joe Pucci) and Gregory of Nazianzus (with Stratis Papaioannou).