Dr. Christos Aliprantis Completes Research Fellowship at the Prussian Privy State Archive in Berlin

Dr. Christos Aliprantis, Associate Professor and Interim Executive Director of the Dukakis Center at Anatolia American University, completed an International Research Fellowship at the Prussian Privy State Archive (Geheimes Staatsarchiv Preußischer Kulturbesitz) in Berlin, where he conducted research from July to September 2026.

The fellowship, awarded through a competitive selection process, supports international scholars whose research draws on the Archive’s extensive collections, a leading repository of historical records relating to the Prussian state.

During his three-month residency, Dr. Aliprantis examined nineteenth-century Prussian government and diplomatic records concerning political policing and security cooperation between Prussia, Austria, and Russia, from the end of the Napoleonic Wars through the 1870s.

His research will contribute to a series of scholarly publications and, most notably, support the completion of his forthcoming monograph, The Watchers: Policing Europe in an Age of Revolutions, 1815–1875. The book explores how European states monitored political dissent across national borders during a period of profound political transformation, offering a transnational perspective on the development of political surveillance in nineteenth-century Europe.