Martha Klironomos, Professor of English and Modern Greek Studies, is the Director of the Center for Modern Greek Studies, the Nikos Kazantzakis Chair, at San Francisco State University where she has been teaching courses in Modern Greek language and literature as well as Comparative and English literature courses since 1996.  She previously held an appointment as an Assistant Professor in Modern Greek literature at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, from 1994-1996 and was a Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow at the Seferis Chair at Harvard University from 1993-1994. She received her PhD in 1993 from The Ohio State University.

Her research areas include the poetry of the two Nobel Prize-winning authors George Seferis and Odysseas Elytis, British and American 20th century travel writing to Greece and contemporary Greek American literature.  She is working on a book-length study on memory and historicism in the work of George Seferis and his generation of writers.

Currently, she is the Associate Editor of the Arts and Humanities of the 'Journal of Modern Greek Studies,' a refereed interdisciplinary journal published by Johns Hopkins Press.  She is also a member of the Executive Board of the Modern Greek Studies Association, the largest professional organization of faculty, graduate students and researchers in Modern Greek Studies in the U.S. and Canada.

Dr. Roland Moore is an applied anthropologist interested in the cultural repercussions of economic change and environmental prevention of alcohol and tobacco use problems among young people.  His research sites have included a town in Central Greece, Native American reservations in the Southwest, California bars, a heavy machinery plant and U.S. military bases.  He completed his doctorate in Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley's Department in 1992. For the past 15 years, Dr. Moore has been a research anthropologist with the Pacific Institute for Research and Evaluation's Prevention Research Center in Berkeley, CA, and on five occasions has taught a course on the culture of contemporary Greece at San Francisco State University.