Panagiotis G. Kimourtzis is a Professor of Education Policies and History of Education at the University of the Aegean. He has served as visiting professor or researcher at the Écοle des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, at the Institute of Education of the University College of London and the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore. In 2007 in acknowledgement of his contribution to Franco-Greek educational cooperation, he received the title of ‘Chevalier dans l’ Ordre des Palmes Académiques’ from the French Republic/Ministry of National Education. His publications concern the Universities in Europe in a comparative perspective, the Symbolic Power of the Greek State in the 19th century, and the interplay of cinema and education.

Georgios Kokkinos is a Professor of History and History Didactics at the Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean. His research interests regard Theory of History, History Didactics, Historical Justice, memory and trauma, and the history of eugenics and biomedical sciences. He has written or co-authored thirty eight books, including: The Rust and the Fire. Approaching the Relation of History, Trauma and Memory (2012); The Holocaust. The Approach of the Traumatic Memory – Persecutors and Victims (2015); Historical traumas and European Idea: From the horror of wars and totalitarianisms to the vision of unification (2016); “Worthy” and “Unworthy” Life. Eugenics, Degeneration, Biopolitics: The Physician in the Role of Social Healer and National Reformer (2021).

Ioannis V. Papageorgiou graduated from the Law School of Athens. He holds an MSc and a PhD from the University of Edinburgh on Political Sociology and State Theory. He worked as a research associate at the University of the Aegean, and as an adjunct lecturer at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens. Currently, he is an adjunct lecturer at the University of the Aegean, and at the Hellenic Open University. Since 2013, he has been the Research Director at the Rhodes Centre for History and Social Research. His research interests regard public policy analysis with a particular focus on the history of institutions, institutional change, and educational policy. Dr. Papageorgiou is an advisor to the Hafız Ahmed Ağa and Ahmed Fethi Paşa Vakfı and collaborates with the Foundation on various projects.

Polykarpos Karamouzis is a Professor at the Department of Primary Education, School of Humanities, University of the Aegean. He has studied Theology, Sociology, Methodology, History and Theory of Science. His postgraduate specialization is on Divinity, while his PhD is on Social Sciences, and specifically on the Sociology of Religion. He has an extensive academic research portfolio on issues related to institutional forms of social organization, such as education, religion, social stratification, power relations, social roles, political ideology, etc. He teaches courses at both undergraduate and graduate levels at the University of the Aegean, including Sociology of Religion, Sociology of Education, Religion and Society, Religion and Culture, Interfaith Education and Religions and the Internet.