Stefanos Katsikas is Associate Director of the Center for Hellenic Studies and Assistant Instructional Professor at the University of Chicago. He holds a PhD in History and Political Sciences from the School of Slavonic and East European Studies at University College London. His research interests lie in the field of modern and contemporary history of Europe, with focus Southeastern Europe, on issues such as democratization, minority-state relations, regional security, the emergence of nationalism and its impact on religious and national identities, Islam, Christianity and Judaism as well as religious conversions. He is the author of Islam and Nationalism in Modern Greece, 1821-1862 and Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe: Foreign Policy in the Post-Communist Bulgaria, which received a Scouloudi publication award from the Institute of Historical Research in London. Katsikas is also the editor of Bulgaria and Europe: Shifting Identities; and co-editor of State Nationalism in the Ottoman Empire, Greece and Turkey: Orthodox and Muslims (1830-1945).