Field: | Ottoman History |
Rank: | Associate Professor |
Government Gazette: | 1066/25-09-2018, τ. Γ΄ |
Telephone: | +30 2661087347 |
Email: | laiou@ionio.gr |
Website: | https://ionio.academia.edu/SophiaLaiou |
Born in Thessaloniki , 1970. First degree , Dept. of History & Archaeology, Univ. of Thessaloniki , 1991. M.A. in Ottoman Studies, Univ. of Birmingham , 1994. Ph.D., Dept. of History & Archaeology, Univ. of Thessaloniki , 2000.
Lectured at Dept. of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, Univ. of Macedonia, 2000-2001, and at Dept. of Archival and Librarian Studies, Ionian Univ., 2000-2003. Lecturer in Ottoman History, Dept. of History, Ionian Univ. , since 2003.
Research interests centring on the social and economic history of the Hellenic geographical space during the Ottoman rule on the basis of Ottoman sources. A member of the Turkish Studies Association and of the Mediterranean Maritime Historians. Author of Η Σάμος κατά την οθωμανική περίοδο [Samos during the Ottoman Rule], Thessaloniki , 2002.