Katerina Gardikas is an historian. She received her degree from the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens and her PhD in Modern Greek History from King's College, London. She has worked as a researcher at the Centre for Modern Greek History of the National Hellenic Research Foundation and as an instructor at the Faculty of Journalism of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. As an associate professor at the Faculty of History and Archaeology of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, she taught courses on modern Greek history, state and nation-building and the social history of health. Her main publications are Landscapes of Disease: Malaria in Modern Greece, Central European University Press: Budapes (2018) and Protection and Guarantees: Stages and Myths of Greek National Integration (1821–1920). Thessaloniki, 1999 [in Greek].