Biography
Anastasia Christou will be moving to a Readership in Sociology and will be based at the School of Law, Middlesex University, London, from 1 January 2013. Anastasia will remain an Associate member of the Sussex Centre for Migration Research, the Sussex Centre for Cultural Studies, the Centre for Gender Studies and the Centre for Colonial and Postcolonial Studies, as she will maintain research collaborations and provide supervision of her current PhD students at the University of Sussex.
Prior to her departure, Anastasia was a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Convenor of the MA in Globalisation, Ethnicity and Culture. As a Human Geographer she has expertise in social and cultural geography researching within critical perspectives and an interdisciplinary approach to social and cultural theory. She was previously Research Fellow of the three year AHRC funded project "Cultural Geographies of Counter-Diasporic Migration: The Second Generation Returns 'Home'" under the Diasporas, Migration and Identities Programme. She was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Humanities, Department of History, International and Social Studies at the University of Aalborg and Postdoctoral Researcher at the Academy for Migration Studies in Denmark (2004) and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung (WZB) (Social Science Research Center Berlin) in Germany (2007). She has been a Marie Curie Research Fellow and has conducted research for the University of York, Canada, and in Athens, Greece for ELIAMEP (Hellenic Foundation for European & Foreign Policy) and ANTIGONE (Information and Documentation Centre on Racism, Ecology, Peace and Non Violence). She studied English Literature, Philosophy and Government (BA), International Relations and Comparative Politics (MA), obtained a Graduate Professional Certificate in International Law and Diplomacy at St. John's University, New York, USA, completed a DPhil in Geography at the University of Sussex and a PhD in Geography at the University of the Aegean. She has widely published on issues of migration and return migration; the second generation and ethnicity; space and place; transnationalism and identity; culture and memory; gender and feminism; home and belonging; emotion and narrativity. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.