Thomas W. Gallant is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Modern Greek History at the University of California, San Diego, where he held the Nicholas Family Endowed Chair, and is now Senior Research Scholar at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He earned his PhD at Cambridge in 1982. His research spans modern Greek history, Mediterranean and European social history, historical archaeology, and the history of crime and violence. He directs the Kefallenia and Andros Social History and Archaeology Project and has served as president of the Modern Greek Studies Association and the Canadian Hellenic Historical Society.