Dimitrios TheodoridisSenior Lecturer

About me

I am a senior lecturer in economic history.

Global economic history is my main interest. My research focuses on environmental history, trade, colonialism, economic inequality and slavery. In June 2018 I completed my doctoral studies in economic history at the School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg. In my dissertation titled “Development Constrained”, which has been awarded the 2017-2019 prize for best doctoral dissertation by the Swedish Economic History Association and the 2019 Per Nyströms prize by the Swedish Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg (KVVS) I engaged with the "Great Divergence" debate. Focusing on land as a key natural resource, I examined the role that international trade, colonialism, slavery and natural resources had for the growth of our modern industrial societies.

I am currently working on a large collaborative research project which examines wealth inequality in colonial slave based societies in the Caribbean. I am also working on smaller individual projects on labor regimes in India and the US in a comparative perspective throughout the nineteenth century and on the Baltic trade.