Prof Anastasia Christou

Biography

Anastasia Christou is Professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Middlesex University, London, UK. Anastasia is also Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, an academic activist, trade unionist, feminist, anti-fascist and anti-racist. An interdisciplinary critical scholar whose work is fully immersed in the humanities, social sciences and the arts in the pursuit of a public sociology which is relevant, meaningful and transformative, Anastasia extensively researches, publishes and teaches on issues of identity, emotion, inequality, intersectionality, ethics, decolonial and feminist pedagogies, social justice and exclusions as regards gender, class, sexuality, race and ethnicity in migrant, minority, youth and ageing groups, having engaged in multi-sited, multi-method and comparative ethnographic research in the US, UK, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Cyprus, France, Iceland, Switzerland, while recently engaged in collaborative research in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, as well as with communities in Israel and Palestine. Anastasia engages with voluntary work transnationally with such NGOs as Cara (the Council of At-Risk Academics) and is a founding member of the Free University Brighton which offers free community education for the love of co-learning with a number of publics, often excluded from mainstream traditional university studies. As a writer and editor Anastasia works across disciplines, geographies and cultures conducting empirical field research and critically theorises from her findings. Anastasia’s research has been published with University presses (Harvard University Press; Amsterdam University Press), as well as, in many international journals and she has edited a number of book volumes and special issues, while her recent poetry appears in the Feminist Review, the International Human Rights Art Movement (IHRAM), Menelique and the other side of hope: journeys in refugee and immigrant literature. Anastasia is Editor-in-Chief of the journals GeoHumanities of the American Association of Geographers, and the Journal of Further and Higher Education. For a narrative snapshot see: https://cara-syria.org/stories/psyche/