Ismini Lamb is the Director of the Modern Greek Studies Program and an Associate Teaching Professor. She offers courses on Hellenic identity, history, and culture, including 20th Century Greek Literature, World Visions of Modern Greece, Greek Society and Popular Culture, Byzantine History and Civilization, and The Orthodox Faith in Greek Culture. Her research interests include Hellenic identity and expression, national and ecumenical Hellenism, and social and humanitarian issues in contemporary Greece following the financial and refugee crisis. She is the co-author of The Gentle American: George Horton's Odyssey and His True Account of the Smyrna Catastrophe (Gorgias Press, 2022). This volume is the authorized biography of George Horton, the American philhellene, classicist, poet, best-selling author, diplomat, ethnographer, and humanitarian. She has been teaching the Greek language and culture for over thirty years at Georgetown, founded and mentors the Georgetown Hellenic Association, and loves sharing her appreciation of the continuity of Hellenic civilization from antiquity to the present with students. She has published widely including in the Journal of American Diplomacy, The Mediterranean Quarterly, The New European, Kathimerini, and The National Herald. She speaks frequently on Greek culture, history, and current events.
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Partial list of publications:
One apology deserves another, 8 13 2022
Smyrna 19222, The Other Half of the Story, 8 15 2022
Review of The Gentle American, 8 26 2022
Is there anything left to learn about Smyrna, 9 2 2022
Smyrna, the truth still matters, 9 7 2022
Misconceptions Countered by The Gentle American, 9 26 2022
The Truth about Smyrna, a book chapter in Greek, 2022
Why Learn Greek? Is it Spoken in Heaven? 2 2 2023
Europe's Killing Fields, 4 4 2023
Replacing the Invisibility of Genocide Remembrance with Indivisibility, 5 19 2023
Honoring Diplomats Punished for Doing Their Job Well, May 2023 .
George Horton's Truth on Genocide and Smyrna and Why it Matters, Summer 2023
The Lausanne Treaty and the Middle East, Nov 2023
Academic Appointment(s)
- Primary
- Associate Teaching Professor, College - Department of Classics