Modern Greek Studies Association

The Modern Greek Studies Association (MGSA) is a scholarly organization for modern Greek studies in North America. It was founded in 1968.

It is interdisciplinary, covering language, history, politics, economics, society, and the arts of modern Greece, broadly defined.

The MGSA sponsors the Journal of Modern Greek Studies (1983- , ISSN 07381727, e-ISSN 10863265), the only scholarly periodical to focus exclusively on modern Greece. It covers Greek history, society, politics, and culture from the late Byzantine period to the present. Choice reviews has praised it as "a magnificent scholarly journal".

Its biennial symposia are a focus for scholars of modern Greece in North America.

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