Selected Presentations
National Hellenic Museum, March 2021
In the second program in NHM's week of digital programming in Celebration of the bicentennial of Greek Independence, NHM Resident Scholar Dr. Katie Kelaidis sits down with Dr. Maureen Santelli to discuss American Philhellenism and its relationship to both the Greek War for Independence and American reform movements.
Authors in Conversation: Cornell University Press
In this video, the fourth of a series of online conversations with recent authors in Cornell University Press's The United States in the World Series, Maureen Connors Santelli (Northern Virginia Community College) and Nancy Shoemaker (University of Connecticut-Storrs) speak with Judy Tzu-Chun Wu (UC Irvine) about their new books The Greek Fire and Pursuing Respect in the Cannibal Isles.
Pour Over History with the Loudoun Museum
Loudoun Museum in Loudoun County, Virginia, Executive Director Dr. Joe Rizzo is joined by Dr. Maureen Connors Santelli for our latest Pour Over History to talk about her new book, The Greek Fire, from Cornell University Press. Grab some coffee and hear about the American response to the Greek Revolution in the early 19th century!
Podcast: The Idea of Greece by Hellenic Heritage Foundation
Episode Six: Philhellenes and the Greek Revolution, March 15, 2021
I joined Georgia Balogiannis, Professor Sakis Gekas, the HHF Chair in Modern Greek History at York University in Toronto, and Chris Gekas, Co-Founder of the Greek-Canadian History Project and a historian with the HHF, in a discussion about American and European Philhellenes who took up the cause of the Greek Revolutionary War.
