Foteini (Efi) Gazi  is Professor of Theory of Historiography and Modern History at the Department of Social and Educational Policy, University of the Peloponnese. She graduated from the History and Archaeology Department, University of Athens in 1988 and received a postgraduate degree in Modern History from the same department in 1990 and an MA in Comparative History from the University of Essex (UK) in 1992. She received her PhD with a distinction from the History and Civilization Department, European University Institute (EUI) in Florence (1997) and conducted post-doctoral research at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies, Princeton University (USA) in 1998. She has taught at the Universities of Thessaly (GR), Athens (GR), Crete (GR), Hellenic Open University (GR) and Brown (USA). She was a Research Fellow at Birkbeck College, London (2007-8) and at the Institut für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie, Free University, Berlin (2015). Her research interests include the history and theory of historiography, public history, intellectual and cultural history as well as the history of nationalism and the history of modern politics and religion. She was the project coordinator and the principal researcher of three Research Projects on historiography, national history, modern intellectual and cultural history funded by Greek and EU research funds. She was a member of the scientific and organizing committees of ten international conferences and workshops.  Her publications include four monographs, four edited volumes and various articles and chapters in peer review journals and collective volumes.  She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historein and a member of the International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH).