Adjunct Professor, Studies in European Civilization, Hellenic Open University, Patras, Greece.

Dr. Ariadni Moutafidou is Adjunct Professor at the Hellenic Open University, Studies in European Civilization. She served as Stanley J. Seeger Visiting Research Fellow at Princeton University, Visiting Associate Professor at Haifa University, Lecturer at Vienna University, Research Associate at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, and Adjunct Professor at the Open University of Cyprus.

Her main fields of interest include Greece, the Ottoman Empire, Europe and the Mediterranean in modern times. She specialized in international relations in crises situations, new and peripheral imperialism, and interethnic voluntarism. Her latest research and publications are focusing on the history of ideas, Greek merchant families East and West, and the global domination of modernity in Europe, the Americas and the Near East.