Email: dimlamprakis@ionio.gr
Dr. Dimitrios Lambrakis is a graduate of the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences, with postgraduate studies in Modern and Contemporary History at the Department of Political Science and History of Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He completed his doctoral thesis in the Department of Byzantine, Ottoman and Modern Greek Studies at the School of Arts and Law, Department of History, University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom. The subject of his thesis was the relationship between imperial center and periphery through the examination of the phenomenon of tax leasing and (intra-)/(inter-)community relations, examining the region of Servia, Kozani and Velvendos in Western Macedonia through unpublished and widely available Ottoman and Greek sources. Between 2018 and 2021, he served as a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Research Program ‘Palaeo-Science and History’ organized and directed by the Max-Planck-Institut für Menschheitsgeschichte / Max Planck Institute for Research and Science of History. Since 2022, he has been participating as a Research Associate in the Research Program ‘Investigating the Islamic monuments of Ottoman Eğriboz/Chalkida and its hinterland through the lens of Ottoman Turkish documentary evidence and site inspections’ organized and directed by Dr. Konstantinos Politis, under the auspices of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies, while in 2024 he joined as a Research Associate in the Research Program ‘Hinterland of Medieval Chalkis Project’ under the organization and direction of Prof. Joanita Vroom (LU), under the auspices of Leiden University, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Netherlands Institute at Athens and the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies. Between 2023 – 2024 he served as a Special Expert for the Mohamed Ali Foundation based in London with the purpose of reading, translating and evaluating the content of the Ottoman charter of the vakf founded by Mohamed Ali Pasha in Kavala, and Ottoman documents and archival sources related to the content of the said vakf. Since 2024, he has served as a visiting lecturer (NSRF) in the field of Archives, Institutions and Production of Ottoman Archives in Greece. He has published numerous articles in Greek and foreign scientific journals, as well as participated in prestigious scientific conferences in Greece and abroad. He is the author of the book Ottoman Politics and Economy, The Periphery and the Centre, which was published in 2025 by the Routledge/Taylor&Francis Group publishing house in the United Kingdom. His areas of interest are the historical development of urban centers and the urban/communal phenomenon in the Ottoman Empire, tax leasing and its role in the formation of socio-economic and political elites, as well as the macro-historical development of the land ownership regime and the role of vakufic charitable institutions in the social, economic and political history of the Ottoman state.