Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History

The Research Group on Global and Mediterranean Economic and Social History studies the development, structure and transformations of the economies and societies of the Mediterranean, as well as their interaction with and integration into the larger globalizing world in the modern and contemporary eras. It undertakes the comparative study of economic development in different areas and time periods, and focuses on the economic, social, institutional and cultural change during the period of transition from the pre-industrial to the industrial world. Research is focusing on the living and work conditions of the Mediterranean populations and their social and geographical movements; the formation of land settlement and rural and social landscape patterns; the labour and the entrepreneurship in this world in movement; both big and small business, as well as formation and regulation of the markets, public policies and development of modern state institutions; innovation and inertia, technological and cultural transfers and their social preconditions.

Researchers pursue an interdisciplinary approach combining economic and social history with economics and economic geography, political and cultural theory and history, as well as labour and business history. Overall, the Department intends to foster a kind of history that pays equal attention to structures and actors -including class, gender and ethnic-national collective subjects.

In its field of interests, the Section on Global and Mediterranean Economic and Social History organises research projects, conferences, seminar courses and lectures and provides publications and open-access databases. In collaboration with University Departments it will organize and offer Programs of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies.

People

Nikos Potamianos

Nikos Potamianos

Principal Researcher
Curriculum vitae
Andreas Lyberatos

Andreas Lyberatos

Assistant Professor of Social and Economic History of the Modern Balkans
Department of Political Science and History, Panteion University (Athens)
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Leda Papastefanaki

Leda Papastefanaki

Professor of Greek Economic and Social History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Socrates Petmezas

Socrates Petmezas

Professor of Economic and Social Modern History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
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Dilek Akyalçın Kaya

Dilek Akyalçın Kaya

Postdoctoral researcher
Curriculum vitae
Giorgos Kostelenos

Giorgos Kostelenos

Research Associate
Christos Hadziiossif

Christos Hadziiossif

FORTH Distinguished member, Professor Emeritus of Modern and Contemporary History
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
Christos Loukos

Christos Loukos

IMS Honorary Fellow, Professor Emeritus
Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete
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Alumni

  • Aglaia Kasdagli
  • Juan Carmona-Zabala
  • Sakis Dimitriadis
  • Giorgos Gassias
  • Eleni Kaklamanou
  • Eleni Kyramargiou
  • Tryfonas Lemonotzoglou
  • Nikolaos Alexis
  • Dimitris Angelis Dimakis
  • Yannis Gonatidis
  • Konstantinos Lamprakis
  • Nikos Leonidakis
  • Daphne Papadaki
  • Maria Pappa
  • Dimitrios Stergiopoulos
  • Vasilis Georgakis

Research Projects

METOPO (WP5)

Transforming the rural and political landscape: The implementation of the Land Reform in Thessaly and Macedonia

Scientific coordinator: Socrates Petmezas

ARCHERS

Advancing Young Researchers’ Human Capital in Cutting Edge Technologies in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Tackling of Societal Challenges, Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Principal Investigator Christos Hadziiossif

Collaborator Researchers
Post-doctoral researchers
Eleni Kyramargiou

Phd candidates
Giorgos Gassias
Thanassis Niasiaras
Dimitra Kardakari

Funding Institution: Stavros Niarchos Foundation