The UCSD Department of History recently received a $500,000
endowment to fund the establishment and research of a third chair in Greek
history; $355,000 of that amount was donated by a single family.
The third Greek history chair will be concerned with
research relating to the period from 1768 to the present. The two existing
chairs cover the Byzantine era and ancient Greek history, respectively.
The endowment has allowed the Department of History to hire
Thomas Gallant, a respected scholar of Greek history. According to chairman of
the history department, Thomas Marino, Gallant’s presence will help to attract
the best Greek history students in the nation.
Gallant’s qualifications include a doctorate in classical
archaeology from
He recently held the Hellenic Heritage Foundation chair of Modern Greek history
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