Yorgos Tzedopoulos
Assistant Professor of Modern Greek History
Department of History and Archaeology
University of Ioannina
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Yorgos Tzedopoulos graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He attended postgraduate seminars at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2012 he completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He worked as a researcher at the Foundation of the Hellenic World from 1999 to 2013. Since then, he participated in Greek and European projects and research programs on modern history, the interpretation of cultural heritage, and digital history, in collaboration with the Academy of Athens, the Central European University, Time Heritage, and other institutions. He taught in postgraduate programs postgraduate programs at the Ionian University and the University of the Peloponnese. During the academic years 2021/22 and 2022/23, he was a teaching fellow at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina. Since September 2024 he has been a member of the academic staff at the same institution. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism, of the Comité International d'Études Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes, of the Greek Association of Historians, and of the Infrastructure Network for Research in the Humanities (DYAS).
Yorgos Tzedopoulos graduated from the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He attended postgraduate seminars at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the University of Vienna. In 2012 he completed his doctoral thesis at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. He worked as a researcher at the Foundation of the Hellenic World from 1999 to 2013. Since then, he participated in Greek and European projects and research programs on modern history, the interpretation of cultural heritage, and digital history, in collaboration with the Academy of Athens, the Central European University, Time Heritage, and other institutions. He taught in postgraduate programs postgraduate programs at the Ionian University and the University of the Peloponnese. During the academic years 2021/22 and 2022/23, he was a teaching fellow at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Ioannina. Since September 2024 he has been a member of the academic staff at the same institution. He is a member of the Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism, of the Comité International d'Études Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes, of the Greek Association of Historians, and of the Infrastructure Network for Research in the Humanities (DYAS).
His research interests concern:
the formation and experience of social and confessional identities in the Ottoman Empire
the practices of popular religiosity
the complex relationship between Enlightenment and Counter-Enlightenment
the process of Greek nation-building
the public uses of history
digital history
the interpretation of cultural heritage
Selected publications
Selected publications
Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire: Institutional Realities and Social Dynamics, Athens: Hellenic Academic Libraries Link, 2015 (co-authored by Eleni Gara, in Greek).
“’Strange Shapes’: Conversions of Muslims to Christianity as an Aspect of the Ottoman Crisis before the Greek Revolution of 1821,” in: Eleni Gara (ed.), The Greek Revolution as Ottoman Crisis, Athens: Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou, 2025, pp. 105-134 (in Greek).
“The Virgin and the Soldier, the Monk and the Whore: Gendered Metonymy and Confessional Resistance in the Post-Byzantine World,” in: Zissis Ainalis and Yannis Smarnakis (eds), The Palaiologan Romance in Context. Narrativity, Identities and Gender in the Mediterranean (12th-16th centuries), Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, pp. 153-178.
“Public Reconversions to Orthodox Christianity in the Ottoman Empire, 1730-1820,” in: Mihai-Dumitru Grigore (ed.), Orthodoxy on the Move: Mobility, Networks, and Belonging between the 16th and 20th Centuries, Cluj-Napoca: Babeș-Bolyai University Press [Studia Universitatis Babes Bolyai - Theologia Orthodoxa 68 (2023)], pp. 165-191.
“The Ottoman Baths of Lake Volvi, Apostle Paul, and Greek Thermalism: Perceptions of Development and Heritage,” in: Elias Kolovos and Panagiotis Poulos (eds), Ottoman Monuments in Greece: Heritages under Negotiation, Athens: Kapon, pp. 95-104 (co-authored by Afroditi Kamara and Despoina Lampada, in Greek).
“Transformations of Liberal Philhellenism: A Diplomat Turns Activist in 1844 Athens,” in: Maria-Christina Chatziioannou, Sophia Matthaiou, Alexandra Sfoini, and Christos Chrysanthopoulos (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference “National Movements and Philhellenism”, Athens: Greek National Research Centre, pp. 233-254 (in Greek).
“Orthodox Martyrdom and Confessionalization in the Ottoman Empire, Late Fifteenth – Mid-seventeenth Centuries,” in: Tijana Krstić and Derin Terzioğlu (ed.), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on Community and Confession-Building Initiatives in the Ottoman Empire, 15th-18th Centuries, Piscataway, N.J.: Gorgias Press, 2022, pp. 335-381.
“‘Once Upon a Time Christ and Muhammad Were Quarreling…’ Stories of Religious Antagonism and Dialogue in the Late Greek-Ottoman World,” in: Anastasia Papadia-Lala, Maria Efthymiou, Paraskevas Konortas et al. (eds), Modern Hellenism: Its Worlds and the World. Festschrift for Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Athens: Eurasia, 2021, pp. 51-62 (co-authored by Ioannis Karachristos).
“Rejoicement, Defiance and Contestation: Contextualizing Emotional Responses to Greek-Orthodox Voluntary Martyrdom in the Long 18th Century,” in: Ivan Părvev (ed.), Balkan Society on Turmoil: Studies in the History of Emotions in the “Long” 18th Century [Yearbook of the Society for 18th Century Studies on South Eastern Europe 4 (2021)], pp. 21-41.
“‘Christian’, ‘Muslim’, ‘Greek’, ‘Turk’: Identity and Mediation in the Disputation between Panagiotakis Nikousios and Vani Efendi,” in: Olga Katsiardi-Hering, Anastasia Papadia-Lala, Katerina Nikolaou, and Vangelis Karamanolakis (eds), “Hellene”, “Romios”, “Graikos”: Collective Designations and Identities, Athens: Eurasia, 2018, pp. 329-343 (in Greek).
“Co-Existence and Conflict in 17th Century Smyrna: The Contested Topos of Martyrdom,” in: Ioannis Karachristos and Paraskevas Potiropoulos (eds), Smyrna: The Development of a Metropolis of the Eastern Mediterranean, 17th Century – 1922, Proceedings of an International Conference (Athens, 20-23 September 2012), Athens: Academy of Athens, Hellenic Folklore Research Centre, 2016, pp. 191-203 (in Greek).
“Public History, Secondary Education, and the World Wide Web,” in: Theodora Samara, Emmanuel Kousloglou, Ioannis Salonikidis, and Nikolaos Tzimopoulos (eds), Proceedings of the 3rd Panhellenic Conference of Imathia “Use of Information and Communication Technologies in Educational Practice”, vol. 1, Naousa, 2014, pp. 343-353 (co-authored by Despoina Lampada and Kleopatra Ferla, in Greek).
“Public Secrets: Crypto-Christianity in the Pontos,” Bulletin of the Center for Asia Minor Studies 16 (2009), pp. 165-210.
Graduate courses (winter semester 2025/26)
Graduate courses (winter semester 2025/26)
Introduction to modern Greek history (INE 361)
Courses taught
Courses taught
Greek narrative sources of early modernity (16th – early 19th century)
The Greek Peninsula under Ottoman and Venetian Rule, 18th century – early 19th century
The Greek Peninsula under Ottoman and Venetian Rule, 15th century - 17th century
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