Maria Pappa was born in Athens in 1978. She studied at the Department of Archives, Library Science and Museology of the Ionian University and did her postgraduate studies in modern history (historical demography of the Greek and Balkan area) at the University of Ioannina (2010), which she continues, currently, as a PhD candidate. Furthermore, she is a partner at the Society for Epirotic Studies (E.H.M). She has participated as a researcher in the European program Interreg II Action 5.4: “Actions on Cultural Language Issues Grecia Salentina" (2000-2001). In 2001 she took over the organization of the Historical Archive of the Municipality of Ioannina, where she works until present time. In the context of her activities, she also dealt with the creation of the Digital Archive of the Proceedings of the Municipal Council and the Municipal Committee of Ioannina and the Digital Archive of Cultural Heritage of the Municipality of Ioannina. She also undertook the management of projects funded by European programs as well as the curation and design of museum exhibitions. Her research interests focus on archives and records management, digital archives, historical demography, social history of medicine, and history of public health.

Selected publications

M. Pappa, “Αρχεία ελληνικού ενδιαφέροντος της Κάτω Ιταλίας και Σικελίας” [“Archives of Greek interest of Southern Italy and Sicily”], in Ellinismos kai Kato Italia. Apo ta Ionia nisia stin Grecia Salentina, Ionian University, Corfu 2002, v. A, p. 157-183.

M. Pappa, “Υγειονομικά προβλήματα και πολιτικές διευθέτησης του χώρου: το παράδειγμα των Ιωαννίνων 1913-1920” [“Sanitary problems and space arrangement policies. The example of Ioannina 1913-1920”], in Yannis Kyriopoulos (ed.), Dimosia Ygeia kai koinoniki politiki, Papazisi, Athens 2008, p. 243-261.

M. Pappa, “Περί των Ιατρών - Φιλοσόφων: Dominus Constantinus domini Demetrici Macry de Cassiope, nunc vero Janina” [“About medical philosophers: Dominus Constantinus domini Demetrici Macry de Cassiope, nunc vero Janina”], Kerkyraika Chronika, Corfu 2017, v. IA, p. 159-170.

M. Pappa, “Ιστορικό Αρχείο Δήμου Ιωαννιτών: διαχείριση αρχειακών συνόλων, πρακτικές ψηφιοποίησης και όροι πρόσβασης” [“Historical Archive of the Municipality of Ioannina”], Αρχεία και πολιτικές για την ιστορική έρευνα, Πρακτικά επιστημονικής διημερίδας (Ιωάννινα, 14-15 Μαΐου 2019), Δωδώνη, επιστημονική επετηρίδα του Τμήματος Ιστορίας και Αρχαιολογίας της Φιλοσοφικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Ιωαννίνων, Παράρτημα no. 85, (forthcoming).

Recent participation to conferences

Yannis Gonatidis, Leda Papastefanaki, Maria Pappa, “Quarantine services in Greece (1821-1923): Available sources and archival silences”, Conference Medical Humanities: (In)Visibility, Northern Network for Medical Humanities Congress (online, 21-23.4.2021).

Yannis Gonatidis, Leda Papastefanaki, Maria Pappa, “Surveillance of the borders. Lazarettos and quarantine services in Greece during the period 1821-1923”, Workshop Mobile spatialities and temporalities of the Mediterranean (XV-XXI centuries), European University Institute, Max Weber Programme for Postdoctoral Studies, MAX WEBER MULTIDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH WORKSHOP (Φλωρεντία, 27-28.5.2021).

Yannis Gonatidis, Leda Papastefanaki, Maria Pappa, «Spaces of social control. Lazarettos and Quarantine in the Greek State (1821-1909)», International workshop Locking up, forcing, removing. Space as an instrument of separation and social control between the second half of the 19th century and the early 20th century, Competence Centre for Regional History, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano (Bressanone, 15.10.2021).