Wellesley College
106 Central St.
Wellesley, MA 02481
(781) 283-3199
(781) 283-3664 (F)
Areas of Specialization
Health and the environment
History and Narrative
Theory
Courses Taught in Modern Greek Studies
Peoples and cultures of the Balkans
Prof. Anastasia Karakasidou
Associate Professor
Wellesley College
Anthropology
Degrees
Ph.D. 1992 Columbia University (Anthropology)
M.A. 1983 Bryn Mawr (Archaeology)
M.A. 1981 Brandeis University (Chemistry)
B.A. 1979 Wooster (Chemistry)
Principal Publications
"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.