Research groups

Research groups Advisory Committee

Group members of the Advisory Committee

Professor Gelina Harlaftis (Member of the Advisory Committee)

gelinaharla@gmail.com

Gelina Harlaftis, Director of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation of Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH) since 2017, is Professor of Maritime History in the Department of History of the Ionian University.

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.). She was President of the International Maritime Economic History Αssociation (2004-2008). In 2009 she was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University, and in 2008 an Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., International Visiting Scholar in the Business History Program, Harvard Business School. She has published 25 books in English, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and more than 50 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals.

Her research interests are in maritime history, economic and social history, business history, global history and diaspora history. She has published 25 books in English, Canadian and Greek publishing houses and more than 50 articles in edited volumes and international peer-reviewed journals. Her last books are World’s Key Industry with Jesus Valdaliso and Stig Tenold (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2012), Greek Shipping History, 1700-1821 with Katerina Papakonstantinou (Kedros, Athens, 2013, in Greek) and Greeks in the Azov, 18th-beginning of 20th century. New approaches in the history of the Greeks in South Russia with Evrydiki Sifneos, (National Research Foundation, Athens 2015, in Greek). Her book titled Creating Global Shipping. Vagliano Brothers, Aristotle Onassis and the Evolution of Greek Shipping Business, 1820s-1970s is under publication by Cambridge University Press (2018).

Professor Gopalan Balachandran (Member of the Advisory Committee)

gopalan.balachandran@graduateinstitute.ch

Professor of International History and Politics joined the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in 2000 from the Delhi School of Economics.