Raymond Detrez (Antwerp 1948) is Professor of East European history and cultures and modern Greek history at the University of Ghent, Belgium.
For around two decades, he worked as a producer of the Belgian Radio and then became a professor of Eastern European history and culture.
In 1986, he received his Ph.D. with a thesis on the autobiography of Grigor Parlichev.
Detrez has published books and articles on 19th and 20th century Balkan history, minority questions and nationalism.
[2] Detrez has conducted research mainly into three areas: historical approaches to pre-national collective identities on the Balkans; linguistic approaches to national identity on the Balkans and the image of Eastern Europe in the West and vice versa in literature and culture.