The Asia Minor and Pontos Hellenic Research Center (AMPHRC) is a historical society and a 501 (c) (3) non-profit organization founded in January 2011. Our goal as a research center—unique in its kind—is to document and disseminate information about the Greek communities of the later Ottoman empire, and study the expulsion of expulsion of the Greeks from their ancestral homelands in Asia Minor (or Anatolia), Eastern Thrace, and Pontos.

We seek to create resources about the topic that can be made available to larger audiences in the English speaker world. Though our main focus is the study of the Ottoman Greeks, our perspective is broad, and we develop an interdisciplinary community of scholarship in collaboration with Armenian and Jewish scholars to gain better insight into the larger framework of the events of that time.

Board of Directors

• George Mavropoulos, Founder and President Emeritus

• Anastasia Spiridis,  Executive Director

• John Davis, Chairman of the Board

• James Ascott, Board Member

• Maria Ioannidou Davis, Board Member

• Stavros Basseas, Board Member

• Dimitris Kourkouvis, Board Member

• Kostas Stamatakos, Board Member.