Marilena Anastasopoulou, a historian of modern migration, is the ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the LSE’s European Institute and a Research Associate of South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX), St Antony’s College. Her book monograph, Flight, Fight, and Fraternity: A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece (to be published by the Oxford Historical Monograph series (OHM) and the Oxford University Press (OUP)), 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 interdisciplinary research has received prestigious awards in the context of academic conferences. Marilena holds a DPhil in History (University of Oxford) and an MSc in Migration Studies (University of Oxford). She has also worked at the University of Oxford as an award-winning Lecturer in History at Pembroke College and the Faculty of History and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (SAME). 

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