Elizabeth Zachariadou


Elizabeth A. Zachariadou was a Greek scholar on Turkish studies, specializing on the early Ottoman Empire.

Biography

In 1966 she married the Byzantinist Nikolaos Oikonomides, with whom she went to Canada following the 1967 coup and the establishment of the Regime of the Colonels in Greece.
After studying at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, she became professor of Turkish studies at the University of Crete from 1985 to 1998, and along with Vasilis Dimitriadis one of the co-founders of the Turkish Studies program of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies in Rethymno. In 1990 she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Ankara, and became a member of Academia Europaea in 1993.

Works

As an editor, she was responsible for the publication of the first four international symposia held by the Turkish Studies program of the Institute of Mediterranean Studies: