Olga Koulisis

Education

• Ph.D., University of Connecticut
• M.Ed., Worcester State University
• B.A., Boston University

Publications

• “Ties that Bind: Greek American Leaders, the Greek Junta, and the Development of Late Twentieth-Century ‘Culture Wars,’” Journal of American Ethnic History Vol. 44, Issue 3 (2025).
• “Organizing Minds and Managing People: J.P. Morgan Bankers on Transatlantic Consolidation of Communication and Capital, 1917-1920,” The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Vol. 23, Issue 3 (2024).
• “Democracy for Some: Greek-American Institutions and the Greek Junta, 1967-1974,” The Commonwealth Review of Political Science Vol. 6, No. 1 (2023).
• “Meet Me in the Classroom: History Surveys for Democratic Politics,” The Journal of American History Vol. 108, Issue 4 (2022).
• Review of Brahmin Capitalism: Frontiers of Wealth and Populism in America’s First Gilded Age by Noam Maggor in Essays in History Vol. 52 (2018).

Selected Conference Workshop Presentations

• “Morgan Bankers and the Battle Against Transatlantic Economic Nationalism,” Ohio Valley History Conference, 2025.
• “Morgan Bankers, Communities of Interest, and Managing Democratic Publics,” Business History Conference, 2024.
• “Banker Public Efforts to Normalize Transatlantic Cooperation, 1918-1924,” The Transatlantic Studies Association Conference, 2022.
• “Banking on Public Opinion, 1918-1923,” Richard Robinson Business History Workshop, 2022.
• “History, States, and Cooperation: Banker Promotion of the League of Nations, 1918-1920,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, 2019.
• “Acts of Historical Imagination: Morgan Assessment of Bond Risk, 1915,” World Economic History Congress, 2018.

Courses Taught

• Graduate Readings in U.S. History
• The Transformation of America, 1877-1929
• Making Modern America, 1919-1960
• American Foreign Relations Since 1898
• History of American Capitalism
• United States History Since 1865
• World Civilizations II
• Introduction to Teaching Humanities
• Teaching History

Research Interests

• Non-state actors and U.S. foreign relations;
• Business, state, and society in the United States from the Gilded Age to the present