My intention, as the director of Greek Studies for almost five years, is to draw from Drexel’s colleges to establish a multi-disciplinary Greek Studies Program, spreading Greek culture and values. The Greek Studies minor curriculum is focused on Greece and moves toward its closely and distantly related countries of the Mediterranean area. My Drexel students experience authentic studies in literature, art, science, music and all that Greece has to offer and is didactic, gnostic, idiomorphous, dynamic, symbolic, energetic, fantastic, passionate, sympathetic, dramatic, critical, perplexing, theatrical, symmetric, energetic, syncopated, theosophic, allegoric, peripatetic, paradigmatic, telepathic, philanthropic, magnetic, symbiotic, orthological, synthetic, melancholic, sophisticated, nostalgic, chaotic, majestic, enigmatic, systematic, democratic, metropolitan, eugenic, chromatic, syllogic, cathartic, magical, patriotic, synonymous with… classic! (Is it still… all Greek to you?)

If you have any questions regarding the Greek Studies minor, please contact the Director, Dr. Maria Hnaraki mh439@drexel.edu; (215) 895-6143 or our academic advisor Kate Hughes, khughes@drexel.edu; (215) 895-1208.

Maria Hnaraki, Ph.D.
Director of Greek Studies
Drexel University
MacAlister Hall 2023-1
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 895-6143

Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

About the Director

Maria Hnaraki holds a Diploma of Arts in Music Studies from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1996), and a M.A. (1999) and a Ph. D. in Folklore and Ethnomusicology from Indiana University (2002). Additionally she has a Piano Soloist Diploma from the Hellenic Conservatory of Athens (1997) and degrees in Theory, Pedagogy and Music Education from the National Conservatory of Athens. She is currently the Director of Greek Studies at Drexel University. Her 2007 book Cretan Music: Unraveling Ariadne’s Thread received the “Young Academic Writer and Reseacher in the Areas of Cretan Culture and Dance” Award from the Pancretan Association.