Petros Kastrinakis

Petros Kastrinakis is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department of the University of Crete in collaboration with the Institute for Mediterranean Studies (IMS/F.O.R.T.H.) in Rethymno. His main field of research is urban and maritime history specializing in late Ottoman Crete. He graduated from the same department and holds an M.A. with a thesis entitled “Μeasures of repression of the Albanians in the Ottoman Balkans during the 18th century: the case study of Veroia and Katerini” completed under the supervision of Professor Antonis Anastasopoulos. The main focus of his thesis was centre-periphery relations, local elites, and banditry in the Ottoman Empire. He worked on several research projects in the Institute for the Mediterranean Studies (IMS/F.O.R.T.H.) between 2015-2018. Currently, Petros Kastrinakis is responsible for the relational database derived from the Ali Pasha Archives for the MapOE.