Ionian University

Faculty Member, History

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Professor Gelina Harlaftis 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.  During the fall of the academic year 2008-2009 she was 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.Among her publications are Greek Shipowners and Greece 1945-1975, ( Athlone Press, 1993),  History of Greek-owned Shipping (Routledge Press, 1996),  Diaspora Entrepreneurial Networks. Five Centuries of History, (Berg, 2005) with I. Baghdiantz McCabe and I. Minoglou. Her last books are Leadership in World Shipping: Greek Family Firms in International Business (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009) with Ioannis Theotokas and New Ways of History with N. Karapidakis, K. Sbonias and V. Vaiopoulos (IB Tauris 2010).
She is proud to have supervised the theses of Prof. Ioannis Theotokas, Dr Katerina Vourkatioti, Dr Panayotis Kapetanakis, Dr Apostolos Delis and Dr Alexandra Papadopoulou.

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