Ph.D, University of Essex
MA, University of Essex
BA, Ionian University, Corfu

Assistant Professor, Hellenic Heritage Foundation Chair in Modern Greek History
 

Journal Articles:

A Colonial Sea: The Mediterranean, 1798-1956, editor (with          Manuel Borutta), special issue in European Review of History / e Européenne d'Histoire 18.4 (forthcoming, 2011). 

2009. "Class and cosmopolitanism: the historiographical fortunes of
merchants in Eastern Mediterranean ports", in M. Fuhrmann and V. Kechriotis (eds.), /The late Ottoman port-cities and their inhabitants: subjectivity, urbanity, and conflicting orders/, special issue, /Mediterranean Historical Review/ 24, 2, 95-114.

2009. «Θεσμοί και Εξουσία στην πόλη της Κέρκυρας στα μέσα του 19ου αιώνα» [Institutions and Power in Corfu town in the mid-        nineteenth century], Ίστωρ 15, 107-144.

2008. «Από την Ιστορία του Κόσμου στην Παγκόσμια Ιστορία ή από τον Ηρόδοτο στη Μεγάλη Απόκλιση»["From World History to Global History or from Herodotus to the Great Divergence"], Μνήμων 29, 243-273.

2008. ‘Migrants, merchants and philanthropists; hierarchies in nineteenth-century Greek ports’ in A. Jarvis, R. Lee (eds.), Trade, Migration and Urban Networks in Port Cities c. 1640-1940, Research Series in Maritime History, 38, 109-126.  

2007. ‘Public Health in Crete under the rule of Mehmed Ali in the 1830s’, Egypt/Monde Arab 4, 3, 35-54 (with Panagiotis Krokidas).

2004. ‘The Port Jews of Corfu and the ‘Blood Libel’ of 1891: A Tale of Many Centuries and of One Event’ in Jewish Culture and History 7, 1-2, 171-196, in D. Cesarani, G. Rommain (eds), Special issue, Jew and Port Cities, 1590-1990. Commerce, Community and Cosmopolitanism.

Book Chapters:

‘Banking Expansion, Success and Failure in the British              Mediterranean; the Ionian Bank, 1840s-1930s’ (with A. Apostolides) in G. Tortella et al. (eds.), Banking in the Mediterranean: A Historical      Perspective, Ashgate (forthcoming 2010).

2009. ‘Class and national identities in the Ionian Islands under British rule’ in R. Beaton and D. Ricks (eds.), The Making of Modern Greece: Nationalism, Romanticism, and the Uses of the Past (1797-1896), Ashgate, 161-174.

2008.‘Credit, Bankruptcy and Power in the Ionian Islands under British Rule, 1815’, in K. Gratzer, D. Stiefel (eds.), History of Insolvency and Bankruptcy from an International Perspective, Södertörn academic studies 38, Huddinge, 83-118.
                       
2005. «Ελληνικές πόλεις-λιμάνια το δέκατο ένατο αιώνα. Ιστορία, ιστοριογραφία και συγκρίσεις» [Nineteenth-Century Greek Port           Cities.  History, Historiography and Comparisons], in L.                   Sapounaki-Drakaki (ed), Ελληνικές Πόλεις στην Ιστορία [Greek           Cities in History], Dionikos and European Association of Urban Historians, Athens.
                       
2004. ‘The merchants of the Ionian Islands between East and West. Forming local and international networks’ in M.S. Beerbuhl and J.      Vogele (eds), Spinning the Commercial Web. International Trade,     Merchants, and Commercial Cities, c. 1640-1939, Peter Lang,         Frankfurt.

Working papers:

2008. ‘A sector 'most beneficial to commerce': Marine insurance companies in nineteenth-century Greek port cities’, Εntrepreneurial History Discussion Papers, 001

2007. ‘A global history of Ottoman cotton textiles, 1600-1850’, European University Institute, Max Weber Working Paper, MWP 2007/25.
                       
2005. ‘Business Culture and Entrepreneurship in the Ionian Islands under British Rule, 1815-1864’, LSE Working Papers in Economic History, No 89.

2006. ‘The South Asia Textiles Industry in a Globalizing World;          8th GEHN Meeting, Pune, India, 18-20 December 2005.’  Conference review in Textile History, 37, 2, 203-04.

2005. Ina Baghdiantz McCabe, Gelina Harlaftis, and Ioanna Pepelasis Minoglou (editors) Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks: Four Centuries of History" Economic History Services, Jul 15, 2005

Ioannis Theotokas and Gelina Harlaftis, Leadership in World Shipping. Greek Family Firms in International Business, in Business History      (forthcoming)

Courses taught recently:

AP/HIST 3355 6.0 A: Modern Greece: From Independence to the Present
                       
AP/HIST 4375 6.0A: Topics in Modern Greek History. Economy and Society in Mediterranean Ports.

The history of class in the Eastern Mediterranean                     
British colonialism in the Mediterranean
The economic and social history of the Ionian Islands and the       Greek State

Max Weber Fellowship for Postdoctoral Research, 2006-08
European University Institute, Florence

Economic History Research Training Network Post-doctoral Fellowship, 2005-06, University of Warwick. Project: ‘Pan-European Economic Development’’, Jagellonian University, Krakow (awarded but turned down).

Economic History Society/Institute of Historical Research Anniversary Fellowship, 2002-03