Meet Our Team
Dr. Vicky Hioureas completed her PhD in History from Princeton University, and holds Master’s degrees in Classics and Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from the University of California, Irvine and King’s College London, and a Bachelor’s degree in English from the University of California, Los Angeles. Classical literature, philosophy, history, and argumentation are some of her greatest interests, and she enjoys sharing this passion with her students.
Instructor & Resident Scholar
Dr. Vicky Hioureas
Dr. Nikos Michaildis
Dr. Nikos Michailidis completed his PhD in Anthropology from Princeton University, and holds a Master’s degree in Political Science from Boğaziçi University in Turkey, and a Bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Panteion University in Greece. He has years of experience as a professor at Princeton University and the University of Missouri, St. Louis, and is a dedicated educator and mentor. His particular interests and skills are in speech-writing, political analysis, Greek philosophy, and ethnography. Dr. Michailidis has contributed think-pieces to the biggest newspapers in Greece and has also been a political pundit on news programs in Greece.
Instructor & Resident Scholar
Dr. Chris PreJean completed his PhD in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures from UCLA, and holds a Master’s degree in Arabic from UCLA, and a Bachelor’s in Theological Studies from The King’s University. He is a historian of the pre-modern Middle East and a current fellow at the Haifa Center for Mediterranean Studies. He founded a private tutoring company (chrisprejean.me) in Keller, Texas, where he lives with his family and serves on several higher education boards. He has served as a scholarship evaluator for UCLA and an application evaluator for Fulbright. He has published widely and led several Arabic-to-English translation projects for government and private entities. Lastly, he serves as the Executive Director of a religious pluralism and intellectual enrichment program hosted at Georgetown University, called The Study of Religions Across Civilizations.
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Program Director & Curriculum Developer