B.A. in Turkish and Modern Asian Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, 2013.
M.A. in Middle Eastern Studies, Leiden University, Netherlands, 2015.
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of California San Diego, 2016-2024.
My research interests are centered on the transformation of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries due to the incorporation of the region into the capitalist world economy. In my PhD, I am studying the economic and political role of the bankers and merchants in Athens and Istanbul the second half of the 19th century. Specifically, I investigate how these strata navigated the turbulent conjuncture of the 1870s when a multifaceted social, economic, and political crisis affected the region in order to consolidate their position as social and economic elites. For my research, I am mainly using primary sources from non-state historical actors, such as newspapers, pamphlets, ego-documents, biographies, memoirs, family archives and private correspondence in Greek, Ottoman Turkish, English and French.