Sofia N. Laiou

Sophia N. Laiou was born in Thessaloniki in 1970. She studied history and archaeology at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and pursued postgraduate studies in Ottoman history at the University of Birmingham. She is an assistant professor of Ottoman history in the Department of History at the Ionian University. She has published the books "Samos during the Ottoman Period," Thessaloniki 2002, and "The Ottoman Documents of the Varlaam Monastery of Meteora," Athens 2011. Her broader research interests focus on issues of social and economic history during the Ottoman period.