Institute for Mediterranean Studies

Department of Mediterranean and Global Economic and Social History

The Research Group on Global and Mediterranean Economic and Social History studies the development, structure and transformations of the economies and societies of the Mediterranean, as well as their interaction with and integration into the larger globalizing world in the modern and contemporary eras. It undertakes the comparative study of economic development in different areas and time periods, and focuses on the economic, social, institutional and cultural change during the period of transition from the pre-industrial to the industrial world. Research is focusing on the living and work conditions of the Mediterranean populations and their social and geographical movements; the formation of land settlement and rural and social landscape patterns; the labour and the entrepreneurship in this world in movement; both big and small business, as well as formation and regulation of the markets, public policies and development of modern state institutions; innovation and inertia, technological and cultural transfers and their social preconditions.

Researchers pursue an interdisciplinary approach combining economic and social history with economics and economic geography, political and cultural theory and history, as well as labour and business history. Overall, the Department intends to foster a kind of history that pays equal attention to structures and actors -including class, gender and ethnic-national collective subjects.

In its field of interests, the Section on Global and Mediterranean Economic and Social History organises research projects, conferences, seminar courses and lectures and provides publications and open-access databases. In collaboration with University Departments it will organize and offer Programs of Postgraduate and Doctoral Studies.

People

Alumni

  • Aglaia Kasdagli †
  • Juan Carmona-Zabala
  • Sakis Dimitriadis
  • Giorgos Gassias
  • Eleni Kaklamanou
  • Eleni Kyramargiou
  • Tryfonas Lemonotzoglou
  • Nikolaos Alexis
  • Dimitris Angelis Dimakis
  • Konstantinos Lamprakis
  • Nikos Leonidakis
  • Daphne Papadaki
  • Maria Pappa
  • Dimitrios Stergiopoulos

Research Projects

METOPO (WP5)

Transforming the rural and political landscape: The implementation of the Land Reform in Thessaly and Macedonia

Scientific coordinator: Socrates Petmezas

ARCHERS

Advancing Young Researchers’ Human Capital in Cutting Edge Technologies in the Preservation of Cultural Heritage and the Tackling of Societal Challenges, Stavros Niarchos Foundation

Principal Investigator Christos Hadziiossif

Collaborator Researchers
Post-doctoral researchers
Eleni Kyramargiou

Phd candidates
Giorgos Gassias
Thanassis Niasiaras
Dimitra Kardakari

Funding Institution: Stavros Niarchos Foundation