Dr Evanthia Polyviou

President

Eva is an educator with significant experience in the secondary and higher education. She holds a PhD in Ancient History and Culture from the University of Sorbonne (Paris IV), a Master’s degree in Ancient History and Epigraphy (University of London, UCL) and a Bachelor in Classics (University of Cyprus). She has collaborated as a research fellow with the University of Padua in Italy and she has taught as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of Cyprus, Department of History and Archaeology. From 2005 onward she has been teaching Modern Greek and Classics at the English School Nicosia and she has been conducting independent research, publishing regularly and delivering conference papers and public lectures. Her research interests lie mainly in the field of Jewish studies, notably, the political history of the Jews in the Hellenistic and Roman diaspora. She has also published extensively about the history of Roman and Medieval Cyprus. Over the last few years her interests and projects include also the teaching of subjects of her field in the secondary education with focus on the perspectives offered by the new technological tools and the contemporary tendency for interdisciplinary approaches in education. She is the co-editor of two volumes, Classics in the Secondary Education (2018) and The Literature Course in the Contemporary School. From Theory to Practice (2024), both published in Greek by the Cyprus Pedagogical Institute.