Dr Marilena Anastasopoulou

Dr Marilena Anastasopoulou

ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow

European Institute

Languages
English, Greek
Key Expertise
Migration, Forced displacement, Diaspora

About me

Marilena Anastasopoulou a historian of modern migration, is the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the LSE’s European Institute. Her doctoral research, titled ‘Coming to Terms with Forced Migration: An Intergenerational Study of Asia Minor Refugee Memory in Greece’, is a comparative – intergenerational and interregional – history of the 1922-24 memories and identities of forced displacement that examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and refugee past. This study has received prestigious awards in the context of academic conferences. Marilena holds a DPhil in History (University of Oxford), an MSc in Migration Studies (University of Oxford), and a BA in Political Science and Public Administration (University of Athens). Marilena has also worked at the University of Oxford as an award-winning Lecturer in History at Pembroke College and the Faculty of History, a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME), and a Research Associate of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College.

Expertise Details

Migration; Forced displacement; Diaspora; Memory; Identity; Oral History