Aristide Chryssoulis
BA (Sorbonne), MPhil (Cantab)
College roles
Skilliter Centre Postgraduate Researcher
Biography
After an undergraduate degree at Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Aristide Chryssoulis pursued a Master’s at the École normale supérieure before completing a MPhil at Cambridge. Whereas his first Master’s thesis examined the French consular system in the Aegean Sea and islands in the late 17th century, his second prolonged this topic by way of a comparison with the English consuls. He is now doing a Ph.D in History at Peterhouse, Cambridge, under the supervision of Dr Kate Fleet and is generously funded by a Cambridge Trust International Scholarship.
Research Interests
His research attempts a social and legal history of the Aegean over the 18th and 19th centuries. It addresses this topic from the islanders’ quotidian experiences, as they adapted to changes in and to different jurisdictions across a connected maritime space. Those experiences and legal knowledge offer entry points into different ways of conceptualizing provincialism in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Aegean, with a particular interest in insular semi-autonomies polities such as the Hegemony of Samos.
His research interests include the early modern and modern Mediterranean, legal pluralism in the Ottoman Empire, with wider interests in diplomatic and material histories as well as on the history of islands. He has previously published an article on the Byzantine historian Helen Antoniadis-Bibicou: ‘Bibliographie d’Hélène Antoniadis-Bibicou’, Études Balkaniques, HS1 (2021), pp. 151–158.