Vasilis Vourkoutiotis
Associate Professor, Department of History
Member of the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies and thereby authorized to supervise theses.
Office: 55 Laurier Avenue East, room 9101B
Telephone: 613-562-5800, ext. 1301
E-mail: Vasilis.Vourkoutiotis@uOttawa.ca
University degrees
2000 – PhD History, McGill University
1994 – MA History, McGill University
1992 – BA History and International Relations, Trinity College, University of Toronto
Fields of interest
- Modern Germany / Europe
- Military affairs and international law
- Diplomacy and international relations
Ongoing research
- German-Japanese-Russian relations in the second world war
- Evolution of Nazi policy toward Jewish children
- International relations in the inter-war years
Selected publications
Books (author)
Reform in Revolutionary Times: The Civil-Military Relationship in early Soviet Russia. New York: Peter Lang, 2009.
Making Common Cause: German-Soviet Secret Relations, 1919-1922. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2007.
Prisoners of War and the German High Command: the British and American Experience. London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2003.
Books (co-editor)
Doronitchev, Dimitrii, Vourkoutiotis, V., et. al., eds.Regional Economics and International Relations, Volume 3. Nizhny-Novgorod, Russia: Nizhny-Novgorod State University Press, 2002.
Oulianovka, Julia, Vourkoutiotis, V., et. al., eds. Regional Identities in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Yuzhno-Sakhalin, Russia: Sakhalin State University Press, 2001.
Articles
“Foreign Contacts of the Red Navy, 1919-1922,” Journal of Slavic Military Studies. 19.1 (March 2006).
“Institutionelle Schizophrenie – Vergleich der Behandlung angloamerikanischer und sowjetischer Kriegsgefangener durch die Wehrmacht,” transl. by H-H Nolte, Zeitschrift fuer Weltgeschichte 6.2 (2005) (Germany).
“What the Angels Saw: Red Cross and Protecting Power reports on Anglo-American POWs”, Journal of Contemporary History Vol. 40 (4) October 2005 (UK).
“Gegner der Diktatur als Freunde der Demokraten? Verständigungsprobleme zwischen deutscher Opposition und britischer Regierung vor München,” transl. by H-H Nolte Zeitschrift fuer Weltgeschichte 4.2 (Germany) 2003.
Papers in refereed conference proceedings
Proceedings of the Athens Institute of Research and Education Conference on Modern History held at Athens, Greece, December 2005.
Papers of the Second Annual Russia-EU Conference: Strategies of Future Interactions (Berlin, Germany: 2003).
Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Rights and Freedom of Speech in Russia (Ekaterinburg, Russia: 2001).
Conference presentations
German Studies Association Annual Meeting (San Diego, 2007; Pittsburgh, 2006).
Université de Paris IV–Sorbonne (Paris, 2005).
Canadian Association of Slavists Annual Meeting/ Learned Societies of Canada (Halifax, 2003).
Verein fuer Weltgeschichte (Hanover, 2002).
Canadian Historical Association Annual Conference (Montreal, 1995).
Book reviews
International History Review, H-German (internet), Histoire Sociale, Canadian Journal of History, and Nationalism and Ethnic Politics.