Barbara Syrrakos focuses on Modern European history with a global perspective, the European Union and forms of political union generally, revolutions and constitutions, Populism, the era of World War One, the history of agriculture and the environment, and world civilizations. 

Three new courses are:

Rebellion, Revolution, Populism focuses on the European experience writ large in the Modern period, asking questions about liberation, outcome, moral economy, culture, ideology, organization and more.  Film, manifestos, constitutions, art and cultural artifacts and first-person accounts will round out sources.  

Post-War Britain focuses on the political compromise of the Second World War, the demise of empire and the rise of rock and roll, unions, the "special relationship" with the US, African decolonization, Thatcherism, the welfare state, monarchy and people power, and more.  What events led Britain to restore its sovereignty in Europe and in the world?

The Era of the Great War focuses on, in addition to stratagems and actors, colonial participation, women's writing, historiography, early 20th century art and philosophy, the "misinformation" of early reporting on the war, and essential questions of diplomacy and violence.  

Dr. Syrrakos was a Fulbright scholar in residence in Brussels to research agricultural policy and democratic practices in the EU, drawing on her training in history and political science and her background in journalism.  

She trains student teams to participate in Model European Union conferences in Brussels and in the US.

Dr. Syrrakos is currently working on a manuscript dealing with farmers, policy formation, and theories of deliberation. 

She is also reviewing documents from the National Archives of Senegal related to that country's Constitution and founding, having recently returned from two years in residence in Dakar. 

Dr. Syrrakos and colleagues from the Science Division and from the CUNY Medical School have won a Moxie Foundation Grant (2019) to build a teaching garden on campus as part of the inaugural cohort of the CCNY Campus Engagement Network. 

She is a member of the CCNY Digital Humanities Working Group, which has won a three-year NEH Humanities Initiatives Grant for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (Renata Miller, PI), commencing in 2021. 

Dr. Syrrakos serves as Coordinator of Assessment for the Division of Humanities and the Arts as well as for the Department of History.

• M.A., Ph.D., The New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty (Historical Studies and Political Science)
• Certificate in Modern Greek Studies, The Balkan Institute (Thessaloniki, Greece)

• Modern Europe (Perspectives Course)
• Rebellion, Revolution, Populism (History elective)
• Postwar Britain (History elective)
• The Era of the Great War (History elective)
• European Union (History/International Relations elective)
• Food and Farming (History/International Relations elective)
• World Civilizations, Modern Period (Perspectives Course)
• Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar

• https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on…
• https://adriftatshimoda.weebly.com/
•  “An Uncommon Policy: Theoretical and Empirical Notes on Elite Decision-Making during the 2003 CAP Reform” in Swinnen, Johan (ed.)The Perfect Storm: The Political Economy of the Fischler Reforms. Brussels: Center for European Policy Studies, 2008.
• Encyclopedia articles “Men,” “Junta,” “Kafeneion,” and “Constantine Karamanlis,” in Speake, Graham (ed.): Encyclopedia of Greece and The Hellenic Tradition. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.