Dr. Spero Simeon Z. Paravantes is a Senior Fellow at the University of California, Berkeley, Institute of European Studies. He also holds posts as a Lecturer in the History of International Relations, University of Utrecht, Netherlands, and he is an Adjunct Professor in the Department of Economic History, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Milan, Italy. In 2017-18 he was a Visiting Scholar at UC Berkeley’s Institute of European Studies.
He is an International Historian, specializing in the Early Cold War period of American-European relations, Modern Greece and European Integration and Federalism.
Paravantes’ recent publications include “Britain and the United States in Greece after World War II: Anglo-American Relations and the Origins of the Cold War” (2021, London Bloomsbury), and “A Tale of Two Referenda: The Greek Plebiscite of 1946 and the Referendum of July 2015” (The European Review of History, 2018).
From 2014 to 2018, he was awarded four peer-reviewed research grants to develop research projects examining the US role in the early European Integration Process. He has won numerous smaller peer-reviewed research grants, and has lectured and given talks in various topics in 20th century US and European History and Politics, in Canada, the US, the UK, Luxembourg, Greece, Italy and the Netherlands.
Spero Paravantes has also participated in numerous international conferences and events, and co-organized the 2019 conference in Luxembourg entitled “The Benelux, Regional Groupings and the Dynamics of European Integration: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives,” held at the University of Luxembourg on April 8 and 9. Additionally, he is co-editing the related conference proceedings, forthcoming in 2022 from Brill.
See his full research profile at:
http://uni-lu.academia.edu/SParavantes
