Kostis Kornetis has studied in Munich and London and received his PhD from the European University Institute in Florence. He taught at the History department of Brown University and the Center for European and Mediterranean Studies at New York University. His book Children of the Dictatorship. Student Resistance, Cultural Politics and the “Long 1960s” in Greece (Berghahn Books, 2013) received the Edmund Keeley Book Award of the Modern Greek Studies Association in 2015. He co-edited the collective volumes Metapolitefsi: Greece at the Crossroads between two centuries  (Themelio, 2015) and Consumption and Gender Since the Long-1960s in Southern Europe (Bloomsbury, 2016). He is a member of the editorial board of the journal Historein, and a founding member of SonorCities and the Workshop for the Study of the History of Modern Greek Jewry. Currently he is a Conex-Marie Curie Experienced Fellow at Carlos III University, Madrid.