Diaspora fellowship program funded by SNF aims to forge collaborations, stop brain drain

The Museology-Cultural Management Master's program of the School of Architecture at Thessaloniki's Aristotle University has been selected to host two Greek diaspora scholars from the United States to work on a collaborative project for the creation of archival resources, research material and identification of exhibits for a future research center and museum on the Greek diaspora and immigration in Greece.

The project, which focuses on flows of people into and out of Greece through history, is headed by Matoula Scaltsa, director of the Master's Program, and George Kalogeras, president of Multiethnic Studies for Europe and the Americas and editor of the Gramma Journal, together with Professor George Anagnostou and Associate Professor Nikos Poulopoulos, fellows from Ohio State University and Missouri University, respectively.

Aristotle University is one of 12 Greek...