Αναστασία Χρήστου
Συνεργαζόμενο Μέλος
Καθηγήτρια Κοινωνιολογίας και Κοινωνικής Δικαιοσύνης, Τμήμα Νομικών και Κοινωνικών Επιστημών, Νομική Σχολή, Πανεπιστήμιο του Middlesex, Λονδίνο, Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο
Professor Anastasia Christou
Professor of Sociology and Social Justice
School of Law
Middlesex University
The Burroughs
Hendon
London
NW4 4BT
Dr Anastasia Christou is Professor of Sociology, member of the Social Policy Research Centre and founding member of the FemGenSex research network at Middlesex University. She has engaged in multi-sited, multi-method and comparative ethnographic research in the United States, the UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Iceland and Switzerland.
Prior to her 2013 Readership appointment at Middlesex University, she was Senior Lecturer in Cultural Geography and Convenor of the MA in Globalisation, Ethnicity and Culture, at the University of Sussex until December 2012. 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).
In the course of her career she has been enriched as an academic, an activist, a feminist and an anti-racist through a journey in the humanities and social sciences to the arts. She remains a committed interdisciplinarian and critical scholar activist in the pursuit of a public sociology which is relevant, meaningful and impactful.
As a critical interdisciplinary scholar working across the humanities and the social sciences, engaging in empirical field research and extensively theorising from her findings, she has widely published research on issues of migration and mobilities; citizenship and ethnicity; space and place; transnationalism and identity; culture and memory; gender and feminism; inequalities and austerity; postsocialism; home, belonging and exclusion; emotion and narrativity; youth and ageing; sexualities; translocal geographies; affect, care and trauma; motherhood and mothering; women, men and masculinities; racisms and intersectionalities; gendered violence and social media; tourism mobilities; material culture; academic exclusion and solidarity; educational inequalities; embodiment. She also writes poetry which recently has been published by the Feminist Review journal.
