Barbara Syrrakos focuses on Modern European history with a global perspective, the European Union and forms of political union generally, the history of agriculture, and world civilizations. 

She has designed two new upper-level courses heavily reliant on primary materials: 

The United Kingdom, from Decolonization to Brexit, which accommodates discussions about migration and refugees, popular democracy, political restraint, empire and independence actors, culture, the Northern Ireland question, and more;

and,

The Era of the Great War, with focus on, in addition to stratagems and actors, colonial participation, women's writing, historiography, early 20th century art and philosophy, the "misinformation" of early reporting on the war, and essential questions of diplomacy and violence.  

Dr. Syrrakos was a Fulbright scholar in residence in Brussels to research agricultural policy and democratic practices in the EU, drawing on her training in history and political science and her background in journalism.  

She trains student teams to participate in Model European Union conferences in Brussels and in the US.

Dr. Syrrakos is currently working on a manuscript dealing with farmers, policy formation, and theories of deliberation. 

She is also reviewing documents from the National Archives of Senegal related to that country's Constitution and founding, having recently returned from two years in residence in Dakar. 

Dr. Syrrakos and colleagues from the Science Division and from the CUNY Medical School have won a Moxie Foundation Grant (2019) to build a teaching garden on campus as part of the inaugural cohort of the CCNY Campus Engagement Network. 

She is a member of the CCNY Digital Humanities Working Group, which has won a three-year NEH Humanities Initiatives Grant for Hispanic-Serving Institutions (Renata Miller, PI), commencing in 2021. 

Dr. Syrrakos serves as Coordinator of Assessment for the Division of Humanities and the Arts as well as for the Department of History.

Dr. Syrrakos has enjoyed greatly being a participant in the interdisciplinary CCNY Rifkind Center for Humanities and the Arts Seminars, on "Archives" (2019-2020), and on "Media" (2021-2022).

• M.A., Ph.D., The New School for Social Research Graduate Faculty (Historical Studies and Political Science)
• Certificate in Modern Greek Studies, The Balkan Institute (Thessaloniki, Greece)

• European Union (upper level)
• Food and Farming (upper level)
• The United Kingdom from Decolonization to Brexit (upper level)
• The Era of the Great War (upper level)
• World Civilizations (Perspectives Course)
• Modern Europe (Perspectives Course)
• Freshman Inquiry Writing Seminar

• https://www.historians.org/publications-and-directories/perspectives-on…
• https://adriftatshimoda.weebly.com/
•  “An Uncommon Policy: Theoretical and Empirical Notes on Elite Decision-Making during the 2003 CAP Reform” in Swinnen, Johan (ed.)The Perfect Storm: The Political Economy of the Fischler Reforms. Brussels: Center for European Policy Studies, 2008.
• Encyclopedia articles “Men,” “Junta,” “Kafeneion,” and “Constantine Karamanlis,” in Speake, Graham (ed.): Encyclopedia of Greece and The Hellenic Tradition. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2000.