Dr. Photis Baroutsos

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Current position
2010 - 2011 Lecturer (according to Pres.Decr. 407/80) in Contemporary Political and Diplomatic History of the Black Sea Countries, adjunct faculty, School of Humanities, International Hellenic University, Greece

Employment history
2008–2010 Lecturer in Modern European History, adjunct faculty, Department of Philology, University of Patras, Greece
2005-2007 Researcher in the project entitled ‘The Officials of Eptanisos Politeia, the First Modern Greek State’, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
2005-2006 Teaching assistant, Ionian University, Department of History, Corfu, Greece

EDUCATION
2004-2005 Postdoctoral researcher in the project entitled ‘Elite Formation and Elite Contribution to the Greek War of Independence’, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
2002 Ph.D., History, Department of History, Ionian University, Corfu, Greece
Dissertation title: Tax-farming and Tax-farmers in Sixteenth Century Crete
1995 B.A., Political Science, Department of Political Science, School of Law,
University of Athens, Greece

HONORS AND AWARDS
2008 Stanley Segger Visiting Fellow at the Program in Hellenic Studies, Princeton University
2006 Distinction at the Dissertation Competition, Medieval and Early Modern session, of the XIV International Economic History Conference, Helsinki, Finland
1996 -2000 Fellow at the Hellenic Institute of Byzantine and Post Byzantine Studies in Venice

PUBLICATIONS
I. BOOKS
1 - (in negotiation) Tax-farming and Tax-farmers in Sixteenth Century Venetian Crete.
2 - (in progress) Bourgeoisie in 19th Century Corfu. A Social and Economic Reconstruction
3 - (in progress) Chained to the Bench. The Memoirs of Alfonso Aquario, Condemned to the Galley-Slave.

II. ARTICLES
4 – (in progress) State and Subjects under Public Revenue Pressure. The Background and repercussions of Early Modern European Fiscal Systems
5 – (in press) Interactions between local elites and Venetian authorities. Embassies as an institutional factor in regulating social and economic hierarchies, in Proceedings of the International Conference in Economic and Social History, New Perspectives in Theory and Empirical Research, Rethymnon, Crete, December 10-13, 2008.
6 - Privilege, Legality and Prejudice: the Jews of Corfu on the Road to Isolation, in "Interstices”: Jewish-Christian Cultures in Late Medieval and Early Modern Venice and its Dominions, Rome 2010, p. 295 – 330.
7 - Population mobility in Crete within the Framework of Venetian-Turkish Relations (1470 – 1645), in Relazioni economiche tra Europa e mondo islamico, Secc. XIII-XVIII, Atti della Trentottesima Settimana di Studi dell’Istituto Datini, Firenze 2007, vol. 2, pp. 637 – 650.
8 - Shadowed by Μuscat and Μalvasia Wines. Cretan Brandy During the Sixteenth Century, in Monemvassia Wine. Monovas(i)a – Malvasia, ed. by I. Anagnostakis, Athens 2008, pp. 367 – 381.
9 - The Evolution of State Councils in Venetian Crete: A Reflection of Administrative Changes, in Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium of Cretan Studies, Herakleion 2004, vol. 2, pp. 181 – 196.
10 - Public Auctions and Arbitration as means of resolving Financial Disputes in Venetian Crete, in The Greek World between East and West, 1453-1981, Proceedings of the First European Congress of Modern Greek Studies, Athens 1999, vol. 2, pp. 21–28.
11 - The Penetration of Venetian Political Ideology among Greek Subjects, in Historica 37 (2002), pp. 301-316.
12 - Products from Greek Areas marketed beyond the Strait of Gibraltar, in Kathimerini, Sunday edition, Epta Imeres, January 6th 2002, pp. 11-15.
13 - Per il viaggio de ponente. Cretan Wine and its success beyond the Gibraltar Straits, in Communication and Transportation in the Pre-industrial age, XI Monemvassia Symposium of History and Art, Athens 2001, pp. 108–123.
14 – ‘Sovvention per far galioni’. Venetian Mercantilism and its Reflections on the Cretan Society of the Late Sixteenth Century, in Thesaurismata 29 (1999), pp. 187-225.
15 - Mercanti Greci a Venezia. Periodi e Tendenze, in Pubblica Celebrazione, Venice 1999, pp. 133-153.
16 - The Public Auction of 1578 Taxes in Candia. The Revolt of the Tax-farmers, in Thesaurismata 28 (1998), pp. 175-195.
17 - ‘Dominica mattina che si fanno gli incanti’. Looking into the Public Auction System in Venetian Crete, Eoa and Esperia 3 (1996-1997), pp. 149-177.

III. REVIEWS
18 - M. Greene, A Shared World: Christians and Muslims in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Greek translation), Athens 2005, Historica 43 (2006), pp. 552-557.
19 - T. Harris (editor), The Politics of the Excluded, c. 1500-1850, New York 2001, Historica 41 (2004), pp. 508-510.
20 - S. McKee, Uncommon Dominion. Venetian Crete and the Myth of Ethnic Purity, Philadelphia 2000, Historica 36 (2002), pp. 237-240.

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