Petros Pizanias |
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Born | 1947 (age 76–77)
Athens, Greece |
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Nationality | Greek |
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Occupation | professor of history |
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Greek professor of history
Petros Th. Pizanias (born 1947, Athens) is an emeritus professor of history of the Ionian University.
Background
His parents were Theodore Pizanias, a tailor and Anastasia Pizanias, a housewife. They originally came from the island of Kalymnos and the city of Piraeus, respectively. He is married to Alice Vaxevanoglou, with whom he has a son, Stefanos Pizanias, who is physicist.
Studies, scientific work and academic career
- 1972–1980 Undergraduate studies in history, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and in Geography and Sociology, University Paris VIII.
- 1980–1981 Postgraduate studies (Diplôme d'études approfondies) in history, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales.
- 1982–1985 Doctoral studies (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales) on social and economic history with specific subject Salaries and revenues in Greece 19th- early 20th century. The main analysis of this research explains the emergence and the evolution of employees of banks and the public sector as the new medium social strata in the Greek society. It is proposed that social position determines the level of the salaries and creates occasions for acquiring revenues in general.
- 1980–1986 Researcher at the Historical Archive of the National Bank of Greece, coordinator of the group of researchers who worked in the program on History of prices, wages and salaries in Greece, 19th- early 20th century, under the direction of Spyros I. Asdrachas.
- 1987–2014 Elected Lecturer and, in succession, full professor in Modern and contemporary Greek history at the History department of the Ionian University.
- 1996–2002 Nominated Chair Unesco holder and director of the net Unitwin for the training on teaching and researching history in the Universities of Albania.
- 1998–2014 Established and directed a program of post-graduate studies about contemporary Balkan societies in the department of history of the Ionian University and in collaboration with the department of history and archaeology of the University of Ioannina. Since 2008, this program acquired a new orientation namely Historical research, didactics and new technologies in collaboration with the department of informatics.
- 1998–2008 Scientific director of several research or educational programs financed by the E.U.
- 1985-till today Occasionally, Visiting or Invited professor or Lecturer at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Université Paul Valéry III, CNRS-Laboratoire de Démographie Historique, Ecole Normale Supérieure-Paris, University of Crete- Department of economic studies, University of Ioannina- Department of History and Archeology, University of Athens-Postgraduate studies in modern history, and also lectures in various scientific associations like Greek Association of Economic History, MNIMON-Association of modern Greek history, The cultural Foundation of National Bank of Greece and many others.
- 2002-till today Director of a large-scale historical research under the title The Hermes of modern Greeks. A digital database with prosopographical parameters of selected social groups which played an important role in the Greek revolution of 1821. These are the Intellectuals of the Greek Enlightenment from 1700c to 1821 (420 persons included in this database), members and cadres of the revolutionary organization Philiki Etairia from 1816 to 1821 (1.582 persons included in this database), the Civilians fighters during the Greek revolution from 1821 to 1830 (37.852 persons included in the database) and the members of all political institutions of the Greek Revolution from 1821 to 1830 (7.302 persons included in the database).
Throughout his career P. Th. Pizanias has organized several international and national scientific conferences and symposia and has participated in international congresses. His scientific articles of were published in Greek, French, and English in the journals: Ta Istorika, The Greek Review of Political Science, Annales-Économies, Sociétés, Civilisation, etc.
In 2015 he was nominated Emeritus Professor of History of the Ionian University.