Paschalis Kitromilides

Paschalis M. Kitromilides (born 5 November 1949)[1] in Nicosia, Cyprus, is a Greek-Cypriot political scientist and intellectual historian.

He holds an MA (1975) and a PhD in political science from Harvard University where he studied under Michael Walzer and Judith Shklar, two distinguished American scholars of their time.

Since his doctoral dissertation (Harvard University, 1979) Kitromilides has devoted his research to the study of Modern Greek Enlightenment, an academic field that was initially developed by Konstantinos Dimaras [el; de].

His adherence to the Cambridge School of intellectual history and the history of political thought was not unconformable to his emphasis on leading figures in Greek political and cultural affairs, to whom he dedicated extended articles, collective works and monographs (Adamantios Korais and the European Enlightenment, The Complete Works of Rigas Velestinlis, The Enlightenment as Social Criticism.

Kitromilides’s main preoccupation throughout his academic career was to introduce the canon of Western political thought into Greek academia.