D. I. LOIZOS - SHORT ACADEMIC BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Professor Demetris I. Loizos from Zante and Ithaca (Greece), a historian and library archaeologist who specializes in European Civilization and lives in Athens  (Greece), has served American higher education in Greece for 30 years (1990-2020) in the university college Deree College-The American College of Greece. Between 1990 and 1998 he taught Greek, European and US History while during the decade 2010-2020 he was a member of the Academic Council and the director of the Validation Office (administrative and academic quality assurance). He had previously served (1998-2010) as the director of the Academic Advising Office.

He is an expert in History and Computing / Digital Humanities and especially in the analysis, design, and software development of History related databases and multimedia applications. He is a Digital Humanities Programmer, one of the few in the world, who has completed freeware software projects in a software programming language (1990-2010). His major work in this field is Diophant Ancient Measures Converter. He has written eight books, numerous articles and criticism in both English and Greek, has completed a number of projects in history and computing / digital humanities. He had been the Editor-in-Chief of the first in the world History and Archaeology electronic journal, Anistoriton Journal (1997-2017).

He was educated at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (ancient history and archaeology) and Deree College (history and economics) in Greece (undergraduate studies) as well as at Kent State University, Ohio, U.S.A. (post-graduate studies) with Lawrence S. Kaplan (US diplomatic), S. Victor Papacosma (Greece, Balkans), Henry N. Whitney (modern European history), Coburn V. Graves (early modern European & medieval history), Glee Wilson (ancient Greek history), and Harold Schwartz (historiography) and at the Archaeological Society of Athens (Greece). His study of modern Greek history culminated in his thesis Land, Peasants, and State Policy in Inter-war Greece (1924-1928) in English based on archival work and its published sequel The Great Powers, the Asia Minor 'Disaster' and the Establishment of the Refugees in Greece (1920-1930) in modern Greek. His current scholarly interests include the study of the ancient world, the archaeology and history of Greece and Europe since ancient times. He is currently working on a 3-volume study of the Ancient European World (in modern Greek): The Mediterranean, Greece and Europe: History, Archaeology, Civilization.

In 1868, his great-great-grandfather Dimitrios Loizos discovered in the presently named "Loizos Cave" on the Greek island of Ithaca, where he lived (Kalyvia Stavros), an ancient Greek grave containing among other items a dagger, a sword and coins that he showed to H. Schliemann (Ithaka, 45-48) and unconsciously they opened together the great chapter of Mycenaean History.

History and computing by Dr Ian Anderson
Digital Humanities Quarterly (since 2007)
International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing (since 2007)
The Journal of the Association for History & Computing (1998-2010)
Digital Studies / Le champ numérique (since 1992)

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