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Vangelis Kechriotis (1969-2015) was a historian of the Ottoman Empire and the Balkans, a great scholar and committed citizen of the world, who passed away too early.
He was a EUME Fellow in 2008/09, and at the time was an Assistant Professor at the History Department, Boğaziçi University, where he taught Balkan history and the history of the non-Muslims in the Ottoman Empire. He held a PhD (2005) from the Turkish Studies Program of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Leiden, where he submitted his thesis titled The Greeks of Izmir: An Ottoman Non-Muslim Community between Autonomy and Patriotism. He was a member of a research group on historiography and the theory of history, which since 1999 has been publishing the review Historein. He also participated in the project Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1770–1945): Texts and Commentaries which published a four-volume book series with CEU Press, Budapest. The first two volumes, Late Enlightenment and National Romanticism: The Formation of National Movements, edited by Balázs Trencsényi and Michal Kopeček, appeared in 2006 and 2007. The third volume was edited by Vangelis Kechriotis, Ahmet Ersoy, and Maciej Górny, and was published in two parts in 2010: Modernism: The Creation of Nation-States and Modernism: Representations of National Culture. The fourth volume on Anti-modernism: Radical revisions of Collective Identity was edited by Diana Mishkova, Marius Turda und Balázs Trencsényi, and published in 2014.

»Ottomanism with a Greek Face« with Vangelis Kechriotis on the Ottoman History Podcast.

In »In Memoriam Vangelis Kechriotis« some of his colleagues and friends remember him on the Ottoman Hoistory Podcast.