Dr Yianni Cartledge is an adjunct (associate lecturer), PhD graduate (history), and formerly Lecturer in Greek Studies at the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Flinders University. His PhD was conferred in March 2024, under supervision of Professor Andrekos Varnava, Professor Philip Payton and Dr Evan Smith. His PhD thesis, titled 'Aegean Islander Migration to the United Kingdom and Australia, 1815-1945: Emigration, Settlement, Community Building, and Integration', explores the migration of Greek islanders, particularly from the Aegean Sea, to the Anglo-speaking world during the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. His case studies include the Chiots of London, and the Ikarians of South Australia.

Yianni’s research interests include migration and the migrant experience, diaspora studies, South Australian history, European and Mediterranean histories (particularly the British and Ottoman Empires), and the history of modern Greece.

Yianni is also a teacher and casual academic, and has worked as such in primary, secondary, tertiary, and adult education settings, having taught History, Modern Greek language, and English. He currently convenes the topics MGRE3211: Homer's Odyssey, and MGRE2214: Greek Mythology

He is currently the Assistant Editor for the The Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History.