Contact
Department of Classics, UIC
601 S. Morgan St.
1818 University Hall
Chicago
IL
60607-7117
United States
ABOUT
Paris Papamichos Chronakis is Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Brown University. He received his MA in Comparative History from Essex University and his Ph.D. in Modern Greek and European History from the University of Crete. A recipient of numerous grants, he was a Rothschild Foundation Europe Post-doctoral Teaching Fellow at the University of Thessaly. He is a historian of Southern Europe and the Mediterranean working on the late Ottoman Empire, the modern Greek state, and on Sephardic Jewry and holding a special interest in the interrelated histories of the middle classes, interethnic relations, and the passage from empire to the nation-state.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
19th-21st Centuries
Balkan Studies
Ethnic Groups
Minorities
Ottoman Studies
Judaic Studies
Mediterranean Studies
Geographic Areas of Interest
Balkans
Ottoman Empire
Specialties
History Of The Sephardic Jews And Ottoman Greeks
Late Ottoman And Post-Ottoman Port Cities
History Of The Middle Classes In The Ottoman Empir
Languages
Greek (native)
English (fluent)
French (fluent)
Italian (fluent)
Ladino (advanced)
Education
MA
| 1998
| History
| Essex University, UK
Abstracts
Revisiting the Late Ottoman Port Merchants: Professional Identity, Urban Attachment and Ethnic Hierarchies among the Merchants of Salonica, 1882-1912
