Institute for Mediterranean Studies
Thomas Kalesios

Thomas Kalesios

Ph.D. candidate
Centre of Maritime History

Τhomas Kalesios is a historian with a B.A. and a master’s degree from the Department of the History and Archaeology of the University of Crete. Since 2019 he is a ph.D. student at the same university with a thesis on the labour force of the Port of Piraeus from the end of the 19th century to the interwar period with Gelina Harlaftis as his supervisor. He has a long-term experience in archival research and research projects. He has worked as a researcher in the ERC project entitled “Seafaring Lives in Transition. Mediterranean Maritime Labour and Shipping during Globalization, 1850s-1920s” led by Apostolos Delis; and in the project "The City in Modern Times" led by Christos Loukos. He has taken part in seminars and international conferences and has written chapters in books in academic international publishers.