Elena Frangakis-Syrett
Elena Frangakis-Syrett is Professor of Economic
History at Queens College and the Graduate
Center of the City University of New York. She
teaches Modern Greek History, Ottoman History,
Modern British History and Economic History. A
Chiot and Lemniot from her parents, she was born
in Egypt and studied in Greece, Britain and France.
A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (England) she has served as
Member of the Advisory Board of the Journal for Modern Hellenism and as
Correspondent for Cahiers d’Études sur la Méditerranée Orientale et le Monde
Turco-Iranien. She has been Visiting Research Fellow at the Business
History Unit of the London School of Economics and at the Skilliter Centre
for Ottoman Studies of Newnham College, Cambridge University and
Senior Residential Fellow at the Research Center of Koç University in
Istanbul.
Her research interests relate to the commercial, financial and business
history of the eastern Mediterranean, --Greece (the Peloponnese, Aegean
Islands, Chios Crete in particular and Smyrna in Ottoman Empire from the
late17 th through to the early 20 th centuries. Her publications include The
Commerce of Smyrna in the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1820 (1992) with
enlarged Turkish (2006) and Greek (2010) editions; Οι Χιώτες έμποροι
στις διεθνείς συναλλαγές, 1750-1850 (1995); Trade and Money: The Ottoman
Economy in the Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries (2007); and over
fifty articles in international journals. She is currently working on a
monograph
on
commercial
and
Mediterranean in the 1700s.
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