Vaso Seirinidou is Associate Professor of early Modern Greek history at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Athens. She has also taught at the Department of History and Archaeology of the University of Crete and at the Institute of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies of the University of Vienna.
Her field of expertise is Greek society and economy in the 18th and early 19th centuries. She has worked extensively on the history of the Greek diaspora in Central Europe, the intellectual and cultural manifestations of the Modern Greek Enlightenment movement, as well as on the environmental history of the early modern Greek world. Currently, her research interest focuses on the history of the Greek Revolution, with emphasis on the relationship between society and institutions.
She is a member of several international scientific societies in the field of history and for years she has been the Greek representative on the regional board of the European Society of Environmental History.
She has participated as a member of a research team and as a principal investigator in national and international research projects.
She has published two monographs (and a third in press), edited four collective volumes and authored numerous articles in Greek, English and German. Her indicative works include: Έλληνες στη Βιέννη, 18ος – μέσα 19ου αι. (2011)× Το εργαστήριο του λογίου: Αναγνώσεις, λόγια παραγωγή και επικοινωνία την εποχή του διαφωτισμού μέσα από την ιστορία της βιβλιοθήκης του Δημητρίου Ν. Δάρβαρη (2013)× «Notes from the Edges. Environmental History Writing in a Mediterranean ‘Periphery’», Environmental History 6 (2017), σ. 207-221× «The Vigilant Eye of the Revolution: Public Security and Police Formation in Revolutionary Greece», in P. M. Kitromilides (ed.), The Greek Revolution in the Age of Revolutions (1776-1848). Reappraisals and Comparisons, New York: Routledge, 2021, σ. 173-187× Όψεις της καθημερινότητας στην επαναστατημένη Ελλάδα: αγορά, διαβίωση, διαμαρτυρία (2022)× Μικρές ιστορίες της Επανάστασης.Θεσμοί και κοινωνία στην επαναστατημένη Ελλάδα. Οι μαρτυρίες των αστυνομικών και των δικαστικών αρχείων (2023).
