EDITORIAL TEAM
Anna Sydorenko studied Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her Ph.D thesis at the Ionian University entitled: “The economic development of the Crimean port-cities, second half of the 19th, beginning of the 20th century. Evpatoria, Sebastopol, Theodosia”. Read More
Dimitra Kardakaris was born in Corfu in 1991 and is a graduate of the Department of History at the Ionian University. Her diploma thesis titled “The rise of the Greekowned shipping in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea in the 18th century. Read More
Petros Kastrinakis is a Post-doc researcher in history. He holds a PhD in History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete in Rethymno with the topic “An Ottoman port in the 19th century: The case of Chania”. Read More
MEMBERS
Gelina Harlaftis is Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017 and member of the Academia Europaea since 2022. She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). Read More
Apostolos Delis born in Volos-Greece in 1971. He studied Ancient History in the Universities of Siena and Bologna and Maritime Archaeology and History in the University of Bristol. He completed his PhD thesis in 2010 in the Ionian University with subject: “Hermoupolis (Syros): the shipbuilding centre of the sailing merchant marine, 1830-80”. Read More
Matteo Barbano (Genoa, 1986) studied Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Genoa. Since 2012 he has been a member of Laboratorio di Storia Marittima e Navale (NavLab), coordinated by Prof. Luca Lo Basso. Read More
Dr Kostas A. Damianidis has graduated from the Architect School of National Technical University of Athens in 1984. His Doctoral Thesis on “Vernacular boats and boat building in Greece” was submitted at the University of St. Andrews, U.K. in 1990. Read More
Katerina Galani studied history and archaeology at the University of Athens. She continued her postgraduate studies in Economic and Social History (M.Sc) at the University of Oxford, Wolfson College. In Oxford, she also completed her doctoral thesis on British Shipping during the Napoleonic Wars that was awarded the Frank Broeze Prize… Read More
Jordi Ibarz (Barcelona, 1962) is a professor of Modern History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Barcelona and member of the research group “Work, Institutions and Gender”. Read More
Dr Aristea Gratsea studied classics in the Department of Philology of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and specialized in historical analysis of unpublished sources (Ionio University/ Department of History). She compiled her PhD dissertation (The maritime activity of Candia during the 15th and 16th century) in the University of Crete… Read More
Yannis Gonatidis was born in Kavala in 1983. He studied History at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Ioannina, where he received his MA in Contemporary Greek and European History in June 2014. Read More
Kalliopi Vasilaki is a Post-doctoral fellow in the Center of Maritime History, Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/FORTH), where she has a three-year contract with funding by the Aegeas Foundation. She aims to study the Maritime Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean… Read More
I was born in Athens in 1993. I graduated from the department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete in 2015 with honors and I received my M.A. in Contemporary Greek and European History from the same department in 2018 with honors. Read More
Nikos Megapanos was born in Athens in 1958. He studied at the Department of Economics of the Law School of the University of Athens. From 1990 to 2017, he was involved in book publishing (Oceanida, Ammos, Avgo). Read More
Ekin Mahmuzlu is an economic historian of the Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. He currently teaches modern Turkish history and Middle Eastern history at Arel and Işık Universities and is the coordinator of online history courses at Işık University. Read More
Thanasis Nasiaras was born in Larisa, in 1987. He studied history at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. After his graduation, he took his first Master Degree in Modern and Contemporary European and World History when he was specialized in social and economic modern and contemporary Greek history. Read More
Semina Protopsalti is a historian with a master’s degree in the PMS “History and Documentation” of the Department of History, Ionian University and a diploma thesis entitled “The transformation of maritime labour, 1945-1973”. Read More
Vasileios G. Skountis is originally from Rethymno and is a graduate of the Department of Economics of the University of Piraeus, the Hellenic Naval Academy – Coast Guard School, the Pedagogical Department of Primary Education of the University of the Aegean and the Department of History of the Ionian University. Read More