Exertzoglou Charilaos

Haris Exertzoglou studied Economics and History in Athens and London. He received a B.A degree in Economics from Athens University and a postgraduate Diploma from the Center of Mediterranean and Arabic Studies [Panteios School of Political Sciences]. He continued his studies with the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, King’s College, University of London where he supported his Ph.D Thesis on “Greek Bankers in Constantinople, 1850-1881”. He is Associate Professor of Cultural and Social History in the Department of Social Anthropology and History, University of the Aegean. During the academic year 2003-2004 he held a Stanley J. Seeger Research Fellowship. He has published extensively on the history the Greek Orthodox communities of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th and early 20th century. His latest book is “The lost Homelands” beyond Nostalgia. A Socio-cultural history of the Romioi in the Ottoman Empire, 1850s – 1900s”, [in Greek] Athens/ Nefeli 2010