Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos

Perry Giuseppe Rizopoulos completed his master’s degree at Columbia University’s, Teachers College, where he pursued his interest in preserving and writing multicultural narratives with such events as the Holocaust and the Armenian Genocide. He recently signed his first publishing contract with Academic Studies Press for his book, Wheat Songs, which primarily documents his grandfather’s experiences in Greece during World War II and his Greek and Italian American family’s story in the Bronx, N.Y. Rizopoulos currently works as an adjunct philosophy professor and is enrolled in a doctor of education (Ed.D.) program at Columbia University’s Teachers College, in the Interdisciplinary Studies Department.