Marilena Anastasopoulou, a historian of modern migration, is a Lecturer in History at Exeter College and a Research Associate at SEESOX, St Antony’s College and the LSE’s Hellenic Observatory. Her research explores the way migration forms memories, identities, and attitudes. Her book monograph, A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: Flight, Fight, and Fraternity (Oxford University Press), examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and refugee past. Funded by the Onassis Foundation and ESRC, her work has received prestigious academic awards. Marilena holds a DPhil in History and an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She has served as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford, and an award-winning Lecturer at Pembroke College and the Faculty of History at Oxford.

Research Interests: migration; forced displacement; diaspora; memory; identity.