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Anna Sydorenko
Anna Sydorenko studied Political Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. She completed her Ph.D. at the Ionian University in 2017 with a dissertation titled “The Economic Development of the Crimean Port Cities in the Second Half of the 19th and the Beginning of the 20th Century: Evpatoria, Sevastopol, Theodosia.” She received a scholarship from the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation (2011–2012) and a three-year research scholarship (2013–2015) within the framework of the research project THALES: “The Black Sea and its Port-Cities, 1774–1914. Development, Convergence and Linkages with the Global Economy” , funded by the Greek National Strategic Reference Framework, the European Union, and the Greek Ministry of Education.
As a postdoctoral researcher, she has worked at the Institute for Mediterranean Studies, participating in the ERC research projects SeaLit (2017–2021) and JANET (2020–2024). Since December 2024, she has been the Principal Investigator of the ERC Starting Grant research project STASH: “Shadow Trade: Unraveling Maritime Smuggling Between the Russian and Ottoman Empires (1853–1914)” (Project ID: 101166144).
Her research interests include maritime economic and social history, port history, the history of the Black Sea, and the Greek diaspora. She is co-editor of the volume Mediterranean Seafarers in Transition: Maritime Labour, Communities, Shipping and the Challenge of Industrialization, 1850–1920s and co-editor (together with Gelina Harlaftis) of the academic series Brill’s Mini-Series in Maritime and Economic History , published by Brill, Leiden.