Name: Anna Mahera

Born: Thessaloniki, 1969

Education

1987-1992: BA in history, (Department of History-Archeology, University of Crete)

1995: MA in history, thesis Intérêts régionaux et intégration nationale à Marseille au XIXe siècle

2002: PhD in history ( Department of History-Archeology, University of Crete), thesis: Protectionism and free-trade: The economy of Marseilles in the context of a dominant European controversy (in greek)

2002-2003: Postdoctoral research: LATTS (Laboratoire Techniques, Territoires et Sociétés) of the École nationale des Ponts et Chaussées: «L'apport technologique de la France dans la modernisation de la Grèce au ??? siècle».

Academic posts held:

2004-2012: lecturer in European history, Department of History and Archeology, University of Ioannina

2012-2018 : assistant professor in European history

2018- : associate professor in European history

Anna Mahera was born in 1969 in Thessaloniki. She studied history at the University of Crete. In her doctoral thesis she examined the economy of Marseilles in the 19th century and the conflict between free trade and protectionism. Her post-doctoral research at École des Ponts et Chaussées focused on technology transfer issues by the European industrial nations to Greece, 19th-20th century. Author of the book, The Double Life of Stendhal, his work, its reviews and the reproduction of revolutionary culture, Herakleion: Crete University Press, (2014); Co-editor of the book, Jewish communities between East and West, 15th - 20th centuries: Economy, society, politics, culture, Ioannina: Isnafi, (2016); Editor of the greek edition, Robert Gildea, Barricades and Borders, Athens:Pedio (2020); her forthcoming book is entitled ‘Technocracy and politics’. Since 2004 she teaches modern and contemporary European history at the University of Ioannina. Her main research and teaching interests include urban history, relations between the European center and periphery, political philosophy of the 19th-20th centuries, the history of the economic theories, the realist novel and the relationship between history and literature.