# Erkjad Kajo Graduate Associate ![E Kajo](/sites/g/files/omnuum1371/files/styles/hwp_4_5__480x600/public/globalpoliticalthought/files/kajo_erkjad_portrait_2024.jpg?itok=-4c5Wsif) email Erkjad Kajo is currently a Doctoral Fellow in Global History at the University of Pavia in Italy. He holds a First-class Honours Research Master's degree in Modern and Contemporary History from Panteion University. His undergraduate education was completed at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and the University of Turin. Erkjad is a polyglot, fluent in seven languages. His dissertation, titled "The Albanian National Movement in Transnational Context: Rilindje's Political Thought in Exile (1878-1912)," is an interdisciplinary study that challenges outdated ethnocentric historiography. By examining the roles of ideas in driving social movements and political change in a transnational and global context, his research draws from a wealth of untapped sources from Greek and Ottoman archives, in addition to the well-known Albanian, Italian, English, and French sources. His research interests are broad, encompassing Global Intellectual History, Ottoman and Post-Ottoman Balkan Transnational History, with a specific focus on Albanian and Greek-speaking lands. Erkjad's work has been featured in "La Rassegna Storica del Risorgimento" and he has two forthcoming chapters in edited volumes: one in the Brill’s Series Studies in Global Migration History (forthcoming 2024/5) and the second in De Gruyter’s series "History and Ideas: New Perspectives in European Studies" (forthcoming 2025). Erkjad's work highlights the importance of recognizing alternative forms of social organization and of transnational loyalties in the nineteenth century, challenging the retrospective imposition of methodological nationalism that has often overshadowed the nuanced reality of that era. His research contributes significantly to the understanding of multiple cultural, intellectual, and political affiliations that existed during this period. - ## People categories [Associate](/people-categories/graduate-associates)