A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: Flight, Fight, and Fraternity - Marilena Anastasopoulou

Marilena Anastasopoulou is an Assistant Professor of Migration History at University College Dublin (UCD) and an Associate Faculty Member at the Faculty of History at the University of Oxford. She is also a Research Associate at the LSE’s Hellenic Observatory Centre (HOC) and the South East European Studies at Oxford (SEESOX).

Her interdisciplinary research explores the way migration forms memories, identities, and attitudes. Her monograph, A Century of Asia Minor Refugees in Greece: Flight, Fight, and Fraternity (Oxford University Press, 2026), is a comparative–intergenerational and interregional–history of Asia Minor memories and identities of forced displacement that examines the multilayered relationship between contemporary attitudes and refugee past.

Funded by the Onassis Foundation and the ESRC, her work has received prestigious academic awards. Dr Anastasopoulou holds a DPhil in History and an MSc in Migration Studies from the University of Oxford. She has previously served as an ESRC Postdoctoral Fellow at LSE, a Postdoctoral Researcher at Oxford, and an award-winning Lecturer at Pembroke College, Exeter College, and the Faculty of History at Oxford.