MGSA Survey of University Faculty and Administrators

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Anastasia Karakasidou

Associate Professor

Wellesley College

Anthropology

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I. Degrees

Ph.D. 1992 Columbia University (Anthropology)

M.A. 1983 Bryn Mawr (Archaeology)

M.A. 1981 Brandeis University (Chemistry)

B.A. 1979 Wooster (Chemistry)

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II. Areas of Specialization

Health and the environment

History and Narrative

Theory

III. Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies

Peoples and cultures of the Balkans

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IV. Principal Publications (Greek words are given in transliteration)

"Essential Differences: National Homogenation and Cultural Representation in Four Recent Works on Greek Macedonia". Current Anthropology 41.3 (2000): 415-425.

Fields of Wheat, Hills of Blood: Passages to Nationhood in Greek Macedonia, 1870-1990. Chicago University Press, 1997.

"Transforming Identity, Constructing Consciousness: Coercion and Homogeny in NW Greece". In The Macedonian Question: Culture Historiography, Politics. Victor Roudometof, ed. East European Monographs (2000): 55-98.

"Vestiges of the Ottoman Past: Muslims Under Siege in Greek Thrace". Cultural Survival Quarterly 19.2 (1995): 71-75.

"Sacred Scholars, Profane Advocates". Identities 1.1 (1994): 35-61.

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V. Office Address

Anthropology Department

Wellesley College

106 Central St.

Wellesley, MA 02481

Office Telephone (F)=Fax

(781) 283-3199

(781) 283-3664 (F)

Electronic Address

[email protected]

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VI. Home Address

18 Norfolk Terrace

Wellesley, MA 02482

Home Telephone (F)=Fax

(781) 235-5539

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VII. Comments and Additional Information

Information revised April 21, 2004

Web page revised May 12, 2004

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