Panagiota Tzivara

Panagiota Tzivara, currently Assistant Professor in Early Modern Greek History, was born in the region Fokida, in central Greece. She gratuated of the School of Philosophy of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens, in Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies. She then studied palaeography and archival studies at the National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundations, before being awarded a Scholarship for doctoral studies by Greek State Scholarships Foundation.  She was awarded a doctorate by the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University of Thrace in 2000, on the subject of Schools and Teachers in Corfu under the Venetians, 16th – 18th c.
From 1987 to 1990, she was Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Bari, Italy and from 1991 to 2004 taught history and Greek literature at secondary school level in Greece.  From 2004 she has been a regular member of the teaching and research staff of the Department of History and Ethnology of the Democritus University.  She has also taught for the Hellenic Open University, where she has taught on the programme The Byzantine and Western Worlds.She has also taught a course on Literature in Greek Lands under Venetian Rule as part of the post-graduate programme of the Department of Italian, in the School of Philosophy of the National and Capodistrian University of Athens.
She has carried out research in the Historical Archives of Corfu, Cephalonia and Zakynthos, in the archives of the Greek College and Propaganda of Rome, the Venetian State Archive, the archives of the Correr Museum, the archive of the University of Padua and the archive of the Patriarchal Seminary in Venice.  She has also studied manuscripts in libraries in Rome, Padua and Venice. 
She has published widely on such matters as the society and the ecclesiastical history of the Ionian islands during the Venetian occupation.
Among her research interests are: relations between Greeks and the peoples of Western Europe (15th-18th c.); the circulation of manuscripts, printed material and ideas during 16th – 18th c. ; the knowledge of Greek and Italian language by inhabitants of the Ionian islands; cultural issues in Greek lands under Venetian rule; lawyers and physicians in Corfu under the Venetians; private and monastic libraries; the editing of sources concerning these issues.