Dimitrios Lamprakis

Academic Scholars program is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF)

Dr. Dimitrios Lamprakis is a graduate of the Department of Political Science and History at Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences. He holds a Master’s degree in Modern and Contemporary History from the same department and university. He completed his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Byzantine, Ottoman, and Modern Greek Studies at the School of Arts and Law, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom. His dissertation explored the relationship between the imperial center and the periphery through the lens of tax farming and (intra-/inter-)communal relations, focusing on the region of Servia, Kozani, and Velvenδos in Western Macedonia, using unpublished and published Ottoman and Greek sources.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 Institute for the Science of Human History. Since 2022, he has participated as a Research Associate in the project ‘Investigating the Islamic monuments of Ottoman Eğriboz/Chalkida and its hinterland through the lens of Ottoman Turkish documentary evidence and site inspections’, under the direction of Dr. Konstantinos Politis and the auspices of the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies. In 2024, he joined the research program ‘Hinterland of Medieval Chalkis Project’ as a Research Associate, under the direction of Prof. Joanita Vroom (Leiden University), supported by Leiden University, the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports, the Netherlands Institute at Athens, and the Hellenic Society for Near Eastern Studies. Between 2023 and 2024, he served as a Special Expert for the Mohamed Ali Foundation based in London, focusing on the reading, translation, and evaluation of the content of the Ottoman charter of the waqf founded by Muhammad Ali Pasha in Kavala, as well as other related Ottoman documents and archival sources. Since 2024, he has been serving as a contract lecturer (funded by the NSRF) in the field of Archival Science, with a focus on institutions and the production of Ottoman archives in the Greek territory. He has an extensive record of publications in both Greek and international academic journals and has participated in prominent academic conferences in Greece and abroad. He is the author of the book "Ottoman Politics and Economy, The Periphery and the Centre" published in 2025 by Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group in the United Kingdom. His research interests include the historical development of urban centers and the urban/communal phenomenon in the Ottoman Empire, tax farming and its role in shaping socio-economic and political elites, and the long-term evolution of land ownership regimes and the role of waqf charitable foundations in the social, economic, and political history of the Ottoman state.

Courses Taught:

• (DALS337) Ottoman Palaeography and Diplomatics
• (DALS340) Ottoman Archives of the Greek Territory
• (DALS351) Archival Sources of Modern Hellenism
• (DALS352) Historical Geography & Cartography