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Gelina Harlaftis

Gelina Harlaftis has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.). She started her academic career as a lecturer of Maritime History at the Department of Maritime Studies of the Piraeus University (1990-2003), continued at the Department of History of the Ionian University (2003-2019) and completed her career as a professor at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete (2019-2026).  She was Director of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (ΙΜΣ) of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) during 2017-2025, and Vice-President of FORTH (2025). She continues her research activities to the present day through the Centre of Maritime History of IMS-FORTH. She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008). In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and in 2008 an Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholar in the Business History Program, Harvard Business School. Since 2022 she is a member of Academia Europaea. Her research interests are in maritime history, economic and social history, business history, global history and diaspora history. She has extensive experience in the coordination and implementation of large research projects and has established a large international research network with scholars from all continents. She has published 32 books in English, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and more than 70 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Her last books are titled Creating Global Shipping. Vagliano Brothers, Aristotle Onassis  and the Evolution of Greek Shipping Business, 1820s-1970s, (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2019) and Onassis Business History, 1924-1975, Brill, Leiden 2024.