“Adjuster and Negotiator”: Bert Hodge Hill and the Greek Refugee Crisis, 1918-1928

by Eleftheria Daleziou

Hesperia, Volume 82, Issue 1
Page(s): 49-65
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.82.1.0049
Year: 2013
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ABSTRACT:

Bert Hodge Hill, the director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1906 to 1926, was also involved in relief work in Greece, beginning with the American Red Cross mission in 1918-1919 and continuing until 1927-1928, when he served as a substitute member of the Refugee Settlement Commission. Throughout this period Hill built and maintained an extensive social network that helped to promote the interests of the School. His work yielded substantial benefits for the institution on several occasions, particularly when there was a need to expropriate land for the Gennadius Library and to negotiate with the Greek government during the initial stages of the Athenian Agora project.