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Dimitrios Stergiopoulos
University of California, San Diego
Occupation
Graduate Student (Doctoral)
Contact
Stefanou Sarafi 120
Vyronas 16231
Greece
ABOUT
My research interests are centered on the transformation of Southeastern Europe and the Middle East from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries due to the incorporation of the region in the capitalist world economy of Western Europe. In my PhD, I am focusing on the political views of the Ottoman Christians, with a special emphasis on Ottoman Greeks, in the second part of the nineteenth century. Specifically, I investigate whether the Ottoman Greeks supported the modernizing reforms of the Ottoman state and how they negotiated their status as Ottoman subjects with the potential appeal of Greece, which aimed to serve as the national center for the Ottoman Orthodox Christians. For my research, I am mainly using primary sources from non-state social actors, such as newspapers, pamphlets, ego-documents, biographies, memoirs and private correspondence.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Armenian Studies
Balkan Studies
Comparative
Democratization
Ethnic Groups
Foreign Relations
Globalization
Historiography
Identity/Representation
Islamic Thought
Mediterranean Studies
Middle East/Near East Studies
Minorities
Modern
Modernization
Nationalism
Ottoman Studies
State Formation
Theory
Trade/Investment
Transnationalism
Turkish Studies
World History
Christian Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Anatolia
Arab States
Armenia
Balkans
Cyprus
Egypt
Europe
Mediterranean Countries
Ottoman Empire
The Levant
Turkey
Specialties
Ottoman Christians
Greek And Ottoman History
The Economic Crisis Of 1873 And The First Constitu
Languages
Greek (native)
English (fluent)
Turkish (advanced)
Osmanli (intermediate)
French (intermediate)
Education
MA | 2015 | Middle Eastern Studies | University of Leiden
BA | 2013 | Turkish and Modern Asian Studies | National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Abstracts
The Memory of a Republican Revolution in a Monarchical State: Legacy of the Uprising of 1821 in the First Constitutional Era of the Ottoman Empire Georgios Zarifis and Christos Zografos: The Political Ambitions of Ottoman Greek Bankers and the Crisis of the Empire in the 1870s Moneylending and Banking between Athens and Istanbul; The Cases of Konstantinos Vouros and Andreas Syngros Embracing Change: Bankers, Politicians, and Journalists in the Era of Ottoman Reforms