Curriculum Vitae
Professor of Modern Greek History, Department of History-Archaeology, School of Philosophy, University of Ioannina
Research Interests
Social and economic history of industrialization and labour, social history of technology, gender history, mining history, history of occupational health, urban history, industrial archaeology.
Education
1992, Bachelor in History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, Greece
1995, MA. in Modern and Contemporary Greek and European History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, Greece.
2002 , PhD in Modern History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, Greece. Thesis Title: Work, technology and gender in the Greek textile industry. The case of the enterprise "Retsinas Co." in Piraeus, 1872-1940. Supervisor: Professor Christos Hadziiossif
Academic Position
12/2003 - 3/2012, Lecturer of Modern Greek History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece
3/2012 - 28/2/2018, Assistant Professor of Modern Greek History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece
28/2/2018 - today, Associate Professor of Modern Greek History, Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina, Greece
Administrative Role
2009 - 2015, Scientific Responsible for the Students Replacement of the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Ioannina
Fellowships and Awards
1992 - 1994, Postgraduate Fellowship, Institute for Mediterranean Studies/Foundation for Research and Technology (IMS/FORTH) (Rethymno, Greece)
1993, Postgraduate Fellowship, Maison des Sciences de l' Homme (Paris , France) (spring semester).
1998 - 1999, Postgraduate Fellowship, University of Crete, Greece
1999, Université Paris X–Nanterre (France), Erasmus Exchange Program, European Union Fellowship (spring semester).
2009 - 2010, Visiting Researcher at Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées (Laboratoire Techniques Territoires et Sociétés), Paris, France (winter semester)
2013 - 2014, Visiting Researcher at International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (winter semester)
External roles
2005 - today, Adjunct professor at the Hellenic Open University (Studies in Greek Civilization, course “Greek history”)
2013 - today, Collaborating Faculty Member of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies/Foundation for Research and Technology (Rethymno, Crete)
- Member of the “Association for the Study of Modern Hellenism”, the Greek Section of the “International Committee for the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage” (TICCIH), the “Greek Economic History Association” (Board member since April 2010) and the “Associaçao Portuguesa de História Económica e Social”.
- Participation at the Greek “Network of Historians for Women's and Gender History” /International Federation for Research in Women's History and at the European Labour History Network.
- Member of the Organizing and Scientific Committee of several conferences.
Selected recent publications
2009 Ergasia, Technologia kai Fylo stin Elliniki Viomichania. I Klostoyfantourgia tou Peiraia (1870-1940) [Labour, Technology and Gender in Greek Industry. The Textile Industry of Piraeus (1870-1940) ], (He rakleio: Crete University Press, 2009) [in Greek].
2009 Belavilas N. - Papastefanaki L. (eds.), Orycheia sto Aigaio. Viomichaniki arhaiologia stin Ellada. [Mines at the Aegean. Industrial archaeology in Greece], preface Louis Bergeron (Athens : Melissa Books, 2009) [in Greek].
2011 “Politics, Modernisation and Public Health in Greece (1900-1940): the Case of Occupational Health”, in Chr. Promitzer, S.Trubeta and M. Turda (eds.), Health, Hygiene and Eugenics in Southeastern Europe to 1945 (Budapest - New York: Central European University Press, 2011), p. 165-191.
2012 “Apo ta orykta gia to Trito Reich sta orykta gia tin “amyna tis Dyseos”. I exoryktiki drastiriotita stin Ellada, 1941-1966” [“From the ores for the Third Reich to the ores for the “defence for the West”. Mining activity in Greece , 1941-1966”], Ta Istorika 57, 2012, p. 367-408 [in Greek].
2013 Papastefanaki L., Tzanakis M. & Trubeta S. (eds.), Dierefnontas tis koinonikes sheseis me orous hygeias kai astheneias. I koinoniki istoria tis iatrikis os erefnitiko pedio [ Exploring Social Relationships in terms of Health and Disease. The Social History of Medicine as a Research Field ] (Rethymno: Department of Sociology-University of Crete , 2013) [ e-book with ISBN : 978-960-9430-09-8 at http://elocus.lib.uoc.gr/dlib/9/f/0/metadata-dlib-1387190108-85492-30497.tkl , in Greek, English abstracts].
2013 “Greece has been endowed by nature with this precious material …” The Economic History of the Bauxite in the European Periphery in the 20 th century», in Gendron Robin, Ingulstad Mats & Espen Storli (eds.), Aluminum Ore: The Political Economy of the Global Bauxite Industry (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 2013), p. 158-184.
Languages
Fluent in Greek (mother language), English, French and German