Greece at the Turning Point

Harrison Blackman is a writer based in Los Angeles. A former Fulbright scholar to Cyprus, Harrison earned a BA in history at Princeton before completing his MFA in creative writing at the University of Nevada, Reno. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books, The California Post, The Santa Fe New Mexican, Literary Hub, Princeton Alumni Weekly, The Brooklyn Rail, and The Journal of Modern Greek Studies. He is the author of Someone Will Remember Us: A Novella (2027) and has contributed to The Delos Symposia and Doxiadis (2024) and Region (2023).Gonda Van Steen holds the Koraes Chair of Modern Greek and Byzantine History, Language, and Literature in the Department of Classics at King’s College London, United Kingdom, where she also directs the Centre for Hellenic Studies. She is the author of six books: Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece (2000), Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010), Theatre of the Condemned: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands (2011), Stage of Emergency: Theater and Public Performance under the Greek Military Dictatorship of 1967–1974 (2015), Adoption, Memory, and Cold War Greece (2019), and Adoptions Reckonings: For Three Refrigerators anda Washing Machine (2025). Gonda edited The Battle for Bodies, Hearts and Minds in Postwar Greece: Social Worker Charles Schermerhorn in Thessaloniki, 1946–1951 (2024) and co-edited The War for Anatolia and the Remaking of International Order: Greece, Turkey and the End of the First World War (2026).

• Introduction; Paul R. Porter Papers, Greece at the Turning Point, Memoirs from the Harry S. Truman Library; Private Letters Written by John T. Hermansen