Research projects

During my career at the Academy of Athens I was involved in the following projects:

• A Descriptive List of the Correspondence between the Foreign Office and the British Embassy and Consulates in the Ottoman Empire 1821-1832. The project resulted in the publication of a two-volume work (see Publications page)
• A Descriptive List of the series Correspondance Politique (C.P.)- Grèce 1823-1895 (in French). The project was suspended. The manuscript is deposited at the Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens.
• Ionian Prosopography of the 19th and 20th centuries. The project was funded by the Academy of Athens and is available in its current online form at http://repository.academyofathens.gr/keine/index.php/gr. Since my retirement funding has been suspended. Independent funding could enable the continuation of the project.
• Greek Research Infrastructure for the Humanities - DYAS. The project began in 2011 as the Greek branch of DARIAH. In 2014 it was merged with the linguistic technology infrastructure CLARIN. In November 2017, this merged infrastructure named APOLLONIS was launched thanks to EU funding secured for the next three years . I am no longer involved in this project.

My personal research interests focus on the early 20th century social and political history of Greece. My current major project is a biography of Ioannis Valaoritis, the son of the poet Aristotelis Valaoritis, an influential financier and Governor of the National Bank of Greece at the beginning of the 20th century.

Other current projects:

• War pensions in Greece: Healing the social wounds of a decade of war. The object of this project is to analyze the records of the Section of the War pensions of the war victims of the period between 1912-1922 of the Greek Ministry of Finance, which yield a wealth of information regarding the social impact of the wars on Greek society. It will interpret these findings (a) within the context of the contribution of the Greek army to the allied war effort and (b) within the broader temporal framework of a Greek society traumatized by war and defeat. The project will be presented at the Conference Macedonian Front 1915-1918: Politics, Society & Culture in Time of War, Thessaloniki, May 10-13, 2018.
• Mapping Island Lives. This project stems from another project titled “Eptanesian prosopography, 19th-20th centuries” (in Greek) I completed while working at the Modern Greek History Research Centre of the Academy of Athens. it was originally of an encyclopaedic nature and scope. In my new endeavour I am attempting to limit its coverage and concentrate on features that document, in a more dynamic way, the course of the distinctive political, social and cultural history of the region. It maps the lives of the political, professional and cultural elites of the islands between 1800 and World War Two and follows the transition of their society from the end of the Venetian rule, through the British protectorate and the long process of assimilation into Eastern Greek society. A new database currently under development draws upon published material available in print and on the web, relying increasingly on the latter. Read more …