Anna Mahera
Professor of Modern European History
Department of History & Archaeology
University of Ioannina
Her research explores political economy, economic and social transformations, technology and state formation in modern Europe, with particular attention to historiography and the uses of the past.
Political economy in nineteenth-century Europe: liberalism, protectionism, and economic policy
Technology, infrastructure, and the role of engineers in state-building
Urban and port-city history in the Mediterranean
Labour, gender, and industrial societies
Public history, political memory and the uses of the past
Historiography and historical methodology
Undergraduate and postgraduate courses include: European Economic History (19th–20th c.), Europe in the Twentieth Century, History and Historiography of the French Revolution, Labour and Gender History, Political and Economic Liberalism, Interwar Europe, Technology and Economic Development, Public History and Memory
Head of the Department of History & Archaeology (2023– )
Director, MA Programme “Modern and Contemporary World: History, Folklore, Anthropology” (2018–2020)
Member of scientific committees of international conferences in economic and social history
Technocracy and Politics: State Engineers in France and Greece
1917: The Υear That Changed the World (Gutenberg, 2024)
The Double Life of Stendhal (Crete University Press, 2014)
Articles in Urban History, Historein, Ta Historika, Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique and other peer-reviewed journals