Gelina Harlaftis is a professor of Maritime History at the University of Crete, Greece and director of the Institution for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology Hellas (FORTH). She has graduated from the University of Athens and has completed her graduate studies in the Universities of Cambridge (M.Phil.) and Oxford (D.Phil.), in St. Antony’s College between 1983 and 1988. She has taught at the University of Piraeus from 1991 to 2002 and since 2003 is at the Department of History of the Ionian University. She was President of the International Association of Maritime Economic History during the period 2004-2008 and Chair of the Department of History of the Ionian University (2004-2008). She has been Visiting Fellow at the University of Greenwich, U.K. and Memorial University of Newfoundland (1998-199). During the fall of the academic year 2008-2009 she was an “Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholar” in Business History Program of the Harvard Business School and in the spring a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College of the Oxford University. She has conducted a significant number of research projects including the one on “Greek Shipping businesses from the 18th to the 20th centuries” with ELIA funded by the Niarchos foundation, 1998-2004. She is presently conducting a major research project funded by the European Union and the Ministry of Education titled “The Black Sea and its port-cities, 1774-1914. Development, convergence and linkages with the global economy” in collaboration with five Greek and eleven foreign (Turkish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Ukrainian, Russian, Georgian, American) universities and research institutes.
Her publications include:
with Stig Tenold and Jesus Valdaliso, World’s Key Industry. The History and Economics of International Shipping, Palgrave/Macmillan, 2012.
with Viktor Zakharov and Olga Katsiardi-Hering Merchant ‘Colonies’ in the Early Modern Period (15th – 18th Centuries), Chatto & Pickering 2012.
with Radu Pǎun, Greeks in Romania, 19th century (Historical Archive of Alpha Bank, Αθήνα 2013)
with Katerina Papakonstantinou, Greek Shipping, 1700-1821, Κέδρος, Αθήνα 2013.
