Biography

Ι have completed my PhD at the European University Institute in Florence (Department of History and Culture). I have taught courses in modern and contemporary Greek and European history and sociology at Democritus University of Thrace (2019-2020) and at the University of Ioannina (2020-2023).

My research interests lie in the fields of fascist studies, the history of ideas, and historical sociology. My most recent publications include the following books/special issues: Voices on the Left (2019), Back to the ’30’s?: Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy (edited jointly with J. Rayner, S. Falls, and T. Nelms, 2020), The Normalization of Far-Right Discourse in Greece (edited jointly with R. Vasilaki, 2021), “Re-assessing the Metaxas Dictatorship (1936-1941): Greek Fascism or Old-Style Authoritarianism?”, Fascism 11/2 (November 2022) (co-edited with A. Kallis), Radical Journalism (co-edited with S. Farrell and E. Siapera, 2023), Duty to Revolt: Transnational and Commemorative Aspects of Revolution (co-edited with A. Karatzogianni, 2023), Τhe Alternative Right in Greece (2025), Politics of Liberation. Conversations with Theory and History (co-edited with R. Vasilaki) as well as a series of articles in the journals Praksis, Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Fascism. Journal of Comparative Fascist Studies, Práticas da História, and Critical Education.

Research fields

• Fascist studies
• Historical sociology
• Intellectual history
• History of modern Greece

Selected publications

• Vasilaki, Rosa & George Souvlis (Eds.). Politics of Liberation. Conversations with Theory and History. Athens: RLS Greece, 2025. [link] 🔓
• Vasilaki, Rosa & George Souvlis. “Instrumentalizing gender: from interwar fascism to the Alt Right in Greece,” Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe 31 (2023): 447-466. [link]
• Souvlis, George. “Genuine Fascist Theory or Non-Systematic Conceptualisations of the New Authoritarian Order? Towards an Anatomy of Nikolaos Koumaros’s Anti-Parliamentarian Thought,” Fascism 11 (2022): 211–236. [link] 🔓
• Rayner, Jeremy, Susan Falls, George Souvlis & Taylor C. Nelms (Eds.). Back to the ‘30s? Recurring Crises of Capitalism, Liberalism, and Democracy. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020. [link]

Main projects

• Researcher in the project ‘STEXEU — The Constitutional Road to Dictatorship: States of Exception and Authoritarianism in Europe, 1900-39‘ — Coordinated by Arturo Zoffmann Rodriguez (IHC — NOVA FCSH) and funded by the European Research Institute (Starting Grant, Grant agreement ID: 101163723 ). 2025- [link]