Nicholas Koudounis

Graduate Student

nk2866@columbia.edu

Fall 2024 Office hours: TBA

Interests

• Non-Greeks in Classical Athens

• Interethnic Exchange in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods

• Classical and Hellenistic Greek History

• Greek and Latin Epigraphy

Nicholas was born and raised in the bilingual city of Montreal, whose multicultural makeup helped develop his fascination with interethnic exchange.

He received his B.A. in Classics, Modern Languages and Linguistics at Concordia University (2017, magna cum laude), writing an undergraduate thesis that looked to analyze the possibility of political advancement in Hellenistic Alexandria for non-Greeks. He later moved to Toronto to pursue graduate studies at the University of Toronto, where he received his M.A. (2019). His Master’s thesis was a study on the Hellenic and Persian traits of the Carian satrap Mausolus.

Currently in his sixth year at Columbia, Nicholas has centered his interest on marginalized communities in antiquity, specifically on non-Greek migrants, willing and unwilling, in classical Athens. Through utilizing modern theories of migration and interethnic exchange, he hopes that his current research can bring to light an ancient precedent of a very common modern phenomenon.