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Gara Eleni

Gara Eleni

Associate Professor
Head of Department

Academic field: Ottoman History

Official Government Gazette, Issue: 1614/06.07.2022 τ. Γ΄

Curriculum Vitae

Eleni Gara studied History and Archaeology at the University of Athens. She did postgraduate studies at the Institute for Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies and the Institute for Oriental Studies at the University of Vienna, and received her PhD from the University of Vienna in 2001. She was the Hannah Seeger Davis post-doctoral fellow at Princeton University’s Program in Hellenic Studies for the academic year 2001-02. She has taught at the Hellenic Open University and the University of Crete, and since July 2003 she has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Social Anthropology and History at the University of the Aegean. She is a member of the scientific societies Εταιρεία Μελέτης Νέου Ελληνισμού (Society for the Study of Modern Hellenism), Comité International d’Études Pré-ottomanes et Ottomanes, Turkish Studies Association, Gesellschaft für Turkologie, Osmanistik und Türkeiforschung, and the Ελληνική Ένωση Ιστορικών (Greek Historians’ Association). Her research and teaching focus on the social history of the Ottoman Balkans and the Greek world in the early modern period. Her research interests and publications cover a variety of issues in early modern Ottoman social and economic history and historiography and the history of institutions, with an emphasis on the administration of justice, state-church relations, interreligious relations, ideology and the legitimization of power, political participation, protest and rebellion, and violence.

Books

  • 2025. The Greek Revolution as Ottoman Crisis (editor). Athens: Ekdoseis tou Eikostou Protou.
  • 2015. Christians and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire: Institutional framework and social dynamics (with Yorgos Tzedopoulos, in Greek). Athens: SEAB.
  • 2013. Greek Paradoxes: Patronage, civil society and violence (editor, with K. Rozakou, in Greek). Athens: Alexandreia.
  • 2011. Popular Protest and Political Participation in the Ottoman Empire: Studies in honor of Suraiya Faroqhi (editor, with M.E. Kabadayı and C.K. Neumann). Istanbul: Bilgi University Press.

Articles and Book chapters (selection)

  • 2025. “Patronage and urban transformation: The case of Veroia (Kara Ferye), 15th-16th centuries.” Turcica 56, 165-197.
  • “Continuities and discontinuities after the Ottoman conquest: The case of Veroia (Kara Ferye).”In M. Stassinopoulou and G. Tsigaras (eds),Historiographikes anazeteseis ste Notio-anatolike Europe: ste mneme tou Gunnar Hering. Praktika diethnous synedriou (8-10 April 2022), Komotini: Democritus University of Thrace, 285-314.
  • 2024. “The Forty Viziers and the Ottoman sultans: Offering advice and expressing critique in the 1440s.” In Y. Smarnakis and Z. D. Ainalis (eds), The Late Byzantine romance in context: Narrativity and identities in the Mediterranean (13th-16th centuries), Milton Park: Routledge, 67-94.
  • 2023. “Grievance redressal and ecclesiastical appointments: Sultanic rescripts in favour of metropolitans and bishops from the seventeenth century.” In H. Çelik, Y. Köse and G. Procházka-Eisl (eds), “Buyurdum ki…” – The Whole World of Ottomanica and Beyond: Studies in Honour of Claudia Römer, Leiden: Brill, 628-652.
  • 2022. “Interfaith marriage in the early modern Ottoman Empire: Legal and social aspects”. Mediterranean Journal of Gender and Women’s Studies (KTC) 5:2, 240-259.
  • 2022. “Confession-Building and authority: The Great Church and the Ottoman state in the first half of the 17th century” (with Ovidiu Olar). In T. Krstić and D. Terzioǧlu (eds), Entangled Confessionalizations? Dialogic Perspectives on the Politics of Piety and Community Building in the Ottoman Empire, 15th–18th centuries, Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 159-214.
  • 2021. “An Ottoman boyhood: Child life in the late eighteenth-century through the lens of Panayis Skouzes’ autobiography.” In G. Yılmaz and F. Zachs (eds), Children and Childhood in the Ottoman Empire (14th-20th century), Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 77-99.
  • 2021. “Popular protest and revolt at times of subsistence crisis: The Ottoman lands, 17th-18th century” (in Greek). In N. Potamianos (ed.), Ekdoches tes ethikes oikonomias: Istorikes kai theoretikes meletes, Rethymno: FORTH/Institute for Mediterranean Studies, 79-99, https://moral-economy.ims.forth.gr/?page_id=101.
  • 2018. “Prophecy, rebellion, suppression: Revisiting the revolt of Dionysios the Philosopher in 1611”. In G. Salinero, Á. García Garrido and R. Păun (eds), Paradigmes rebelles: Pratiques et cultures de la désobéissance à l’époque moderne, Brussels: Peter Lang, 335-363.
  • 2017. “Conceptualizing interreligious relations in the Ottoman Empire: The early modern centuries”. Acta Poloniae Historica 116, 57-91.
  • 2015. “The rural hinterland of Karaferye: Settlements, divisions and the çiftlik phenomenon (seventeenth-eighteenth centuries)”. In E. Kolovos (ed.), Ottoman rural societies and economies, Rethymno: Crete University Press, 261-291 (with Antonis Anastasopoulos).
  • 2012. “Patterns of collective action and political participation in the early modern Balkans”. In A. Anastasopoulos (ed.), Political initiatives ‘from the bottom up’ in the Ottoman Empire, Rethymno: Crete University Press, 399-433.
  • 2011. “Popular protest and the limitations of sultanic justice”. In E. Gara, M.E. Kabadayı and C.K. Neumann (eds), Popular protest and political participation in the Ottoman Empire, Istanbul: Bilgi University Press, 89-104.
  • 2010. “Partiality in the administration of justice at the Ottoman kadi courts”. In K. Lappas, A. Anastasopoulos and E. Kolovos (eds), Mneme Penelopes Stathe, Herakleio: Crete University Press, 39-54 (in Greek).
  • 2008. “Ottoman social history: Trends of research and the issue of reflexivity”. In Ph. Tsimpiridou and D. Stamatopoulos (eds), Orientalismos sta oria, Athens: Kritike, 99-124 (in Greek).
  • 2007. “Marrying in seventeenth century Mostar”. In E. Kolovos, Ph. Kotzageorgis, S. Laiou and M. Sariyannis (eds), The Ottoman Empire, the Balkans, the Greek lands, Istanbul: The Isis Press, 115-134.
  • 2005/06. “Neomartyr without a message”. Archivum Ottomanicum 23, 155-175.
  • 2005. “Moneylenders and landowners: In search of urban Muslim elites in the early modern Balkans”. In A. Anastasopoulos (ed.), Provincial elites in the Ottoman Empire, Rethymno: Crete University Press, 135-147.
  • 2005. “Çuha for the janissaries – Velençe for the poor: Competition for raw material and work-force between Salonica and Veria, 1600-1650”. In S. Faroqhi and R. Deguilhem (eds), Crafts and craftsmen of the Middle East, London–New York: I.B. Tauris, 121-152.
  • 1999. “Ottoman attitudes on crime and punishment”. Mnemon 21, 37-54 (with A. Anastasopoulos, in Greek).
  • 1998. “In search of communities in seventeenth-century Ottoman sources”. Turcica 30, 135-162.

Contact

  • Office: Social Sciences Building (SKE1) – University Hill
  • Tel: +30 22510 36337
  • e-mail: egara@sa.aegean.gr

Undergraduate Courses

W/S-103 Religion and governance in Ottoman times
special background, specialised general knowledge
H-202 The Ottoman Empire and the contemporary world
special background, specialised general knowledge
L-301 Research and essay writing methods
General background

Graduate Courses

CHC-3 Socio-economic transformation: The crisis of the 17th century and the transformation of the Ottoman world
MA in Crisis and Historical Change

Courses taught

  • H-240 State and society in the Greek-Ottoman world, 1770-1821 (elective course)
  • H-237 Everyday life in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean, 15th-18th centuries (elective course)
  • H-235 History of the Ottoman Empire, 1300-1839 (compulsory course)
  • H-233 Islam and Christianity in the early modern times (elective course)
  • H-232 The Balkan Slavs, 15th-18th centuries (elective course)
  • H-231 Social history of the Ottoman-Slavic world, 15th-18th centuries (elective course)
  • W/S-069 Greek History in European Perspective (elective seminar taught jointly)
  • W/S-054 Travel and travelers in the Ottoman realm (elective seminar)
  • W/S-020 Sources for the history of the Ottoman Balkans (elective seminar)
  • W/S-016 The Ottoman sharia court (elective seminar)
  • SHA-H-2 Special topics in historiography: Violence in the early modern times (graduate seminar)
  • SHA-H-2 Special topics in historiography: Historical demography. Demographic crisis and social change in the Ottoman Balkans (graduate seminar)

Undergraduate

W/S-103 Religion and governance in Ottoman times
special background, specialised general knowledge
H-202 The Ottoman Empire and the contemporary world
special background, specialised general knowledge
L-301 Research and essay writing methods
General background

Postgraduate Courses

CHC-3 Socio-economic transformation: The crisis of the 17th century and the transformation of the Ottoman world
Eleni Gara