Anastasopoulos Antonis
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Antonis Anastasopoulos

Antonis Anastasopoulos is a historian of the Ottoman Empire. He is an Associate Professor of Ottoman history at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete, where he has been teaching since 1999. He is also a Collaborating Faculty member of the Institute for Mediterranean Studies of the Foundation for Research and Technology-Hellas (FORTH), with which he has been affiliated since 2001. He studied History and Archaeology at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. He completed his postgraduate studies (M.Phil.) and wrote his Ph.D. dissertation entitled “Imperial Institutions and Local Communities: Ottoman Karaferye, 1758-1774” at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of the University of Cambridge under the supervision of İ. Metin Kunt. In January 2010 he was invited and taught a series of four seminars at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques, in Paris. During the spring semester of the academic year 2015-2016 he was invited and taught Greek and Balkan History at the Department of History of Boğaziçi University in Istanbul, in the context of a position funded by the Alexander S. Onassis Public Benefit Foundation.

He is Vice-President of CIÉPO (Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes), Editor-in-Chief of the journal Turkish Historical Review, published by Brill, and a member of the International Advisory Committees of the journal Turcica, published by Peeters, and the book series The Ottoman Empire and its Heritage: Politics, Society and Economy, published by Brill.

He has edited or co-edited five collective volumes and has published more than 45 articles in academic journals, edited volumes and academic encyclopaedias. He has participated in 60 international conferences and workshops and has been a member of the organizing committee of twelve international conferences and an international day conference.

He has participated in eight funded research projects. From 2005 to 2009 he was a member of the management committee of the international academic network COST A36: “Tributary empires compared: Romans, Mughals and Ottomans in the pre-industrial world from antiquity till the transition to modernity”.

His main research interests in Ottoman history are the provinces with an emphasis on political relations in the eighteenth century; Islamic gravestones; and the history of water resources management.