Meropi Anastasiadou

Meropi Anastasiadou ( Greek Μερόπη Αναστασιάδου , * 1964 ) is a Greek historian and neo- Grecist .

Life

Anastasiadou first studied law at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and graduated with a diploma. Then she went to Paris to study history at the Université de Paris I and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales . She completed her studies with a thèse de doctorat on the urban and social changes in the Ottoman Salonika in the 19th century. Subsequently, she spent stays in Istanbul at the Institut français d'Études anatoliennes (1997, 1999–2003). In 2003 she was admitted to the Unité de recherche Études turques et ottomanes of the CNRS in Paris (nowCenter d'Études Turques, Ottomanes, Balkaniques et Centrasiatiques , UMR 8032, CETOBaC). From 1997 to 2011 she was a research associate at the CNRS and lectured at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales and the Université de Strasbourg . Since September 2011 she has been professeur des universités at the Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales (INaLCO); there she teaches the history of modern Greece in the context of the regional environment.

Research priorities

Her research focuses on the relationships between cultural heritage and collective identities in Greece and Turkey, as well as on the urban societies of the eastern Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th centuries. She examined the changes in the city and society in the Ottoman cities of the 19th century, the common people, the new elites, the interplay of cultures and coexistence in the face of emerging nationalisms.

Fonts (selection)

• Les Grecs d'Istanbul au XIXe siècle. Histoire socioculturelle de la communauté de Péra. EJ Brill, Leiden-Boston 2012.
• (Ed.): Identités confessionnelles et espace urbain en terres d'islam. Numéro thématique de la Revue des Mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée (REMMM, Aix-en-Provence, Edisud), Volume 107-110, 2005.
• (with Paul Dumont): Les Grecs d'Istanbul et le patriarcat œcuménique au seuil du XXIe siècle. Une communauté en quête d'avenir. Cerf, Paris 2011.
• (with Paul Dumont): Οι Ρωμηοί της Πόλης. Τραύματα και Προσδοκίες. Athens, Hestia, 2007. - ("The Greeks of Istanbul. Injuries and Expectations")
• Salonique 1830-1912. Une ville ottoman à l'âge des réformes. EJ Brill, Leiden 1997 (= thèse de doctorat). (Turkish translation 2001, Greek translation 2008)

Web links

• Literature by and about Meropi Anastasiadou in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
• INaLCO: Personal page (with list of publications)
• École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: Personal page (with list of publications)