Christos Aliprantis is an Associate Professor in the Social Sciences at the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences of the American College of Thessaloniki (ACT), the tertiary division of Anatolia College. At ACT, he teaches courses on history, political science, sociology, security studies, philosophy, and anthropology. Dr. Aliprantis earned his B.A. in History from the University of Athens, an M.A. in Austrian History from the University of Vienna, and an M.A. in Comparative History of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe from the Central European University in Budapest. He obtained his Ph.D. in Modern European History from the University of Cambridge in 2020, with a dissertation on the origins of transnational political policing in Europe (1830-1870). Afterwards, he held a number of postdoctoral teaching and research positions including a Max Weber fellowship at the European University Institute in Florence, a Marie Sklodowska Curie fellowship at the Ludwig Maximilian University in Munich, and an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation research associateship at the Ruhr University in Bochum. Upon his return to Greece, he was also an early career fellow (in Philhellenism) at the Center for Hellenic Studies of Harvard University in Nafplio, and a research fellow at the University of Athens, funded by the Tsagadas Trust. Dr. Aliprantis’ work has appeared in international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, and is dealing mainly with state formation, security, transnational history, and international relations from the nineteenth century to the present. His earlier publications approached the above topics with a focus on German-speaking Central Europe (mostly Germany and the Habsburg Empire), while most recently his research interests have developed towards state security in the Cold War. In this context, he will conduct research at the National Archives (Maryland, College Park) in Washington D.C., hosted by the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies of George Washington University between March and June 2025. Dr. Aliprantis’ Fulbright project studies the Greek-American police relations in the postwar era (1947-1974), and investigates the pivotal role that the U.S.A. played in creating a coercive state apparatus in post-civil war Greece. This three-month stay in the U.S.A. will be further extended through a subsequent visiting research fellowship at the Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies of Princeton University between June and August 2025. Dr. Aliprantis will benefit from his Fulbright-sponsored stay in the U.S.A. to gather material for his second monograph on the social history of Greek police forces between 1944 and 1974.