Anna Triandafyllidou

Visiting professor, European General Studies

Anna Triandafyllidou is Professor (part time) at the European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, in Florence, Italy since December 2009. She works as Senior Research Fellow at the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy (ELIAMEP) in Athens since 2004 where she directs the ELIAMEP migration research team. She is Visiting Professor at the College of Europe in Bruges since 2002.

Anna Triandafyllidou has received her BA in sociology from Panteion University in Athens, Greece (1990) and her PhD in the Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute of Florence (1995). She has held teaching and research positions at the University of Surrey (1994-95), London School of Economics (1995-97), Consiglio Nazionale per le Ricerche in Rome (1997-99), New York University (2001), Bristol University (2001-02) and European University Institute of Florence (1992-1994 and 1999-2007). She has been Assistant Professor at the Democritus University of Thrace between 2007 and 2010 and is currently on unpaid leave from this University.

Her main areas of research and teaching are migration, nationalism, European integration, covering issues of policy, identity, politics and media analysis. Her expertise covers Southern, Western and Central Eastern Europe including comparative highlights with the US. She has published more than 100 articles in refereed journals and chapters in collective volumes on these topics. Her books include: Immigrants and National Identity in Europe (2001, Routledge) Negotiating Nationhood in a Changing Europe (2002, Edwin Mellen Press) Europeanisation, National Identities and Migration (with W. Spohn, 2003, Routledge), Multiculturalism, Muslims and Citizenship: A European Approach, (with T. Modood and R. Zapata, 2006, Routledge), Transcultural Europe (with U. Meinhof, 2006, Palgrave Macmillan, translated into Serbian and published in Serbia), Contemporary Polish Migration in Europe (2006, Edwin Mellen Press), European Immigration: A Sourcebook (with R. Gropas, 2007, Ashgate), The European Public Sphere and the Media (with R. Wodak and M. Kryzanowski, Palgrave, 2009), Migration in the United Europe (with R. Gropas, 2009, Kritiki, in Greek), Migration in 21st Century Greece (with T. Maroukis, 2010, Kritiki, in Greek), Muslims in 21st Century Europe (2010, Routledge), Irregular Migration in Europe: Myths and Realities (2010, Ashgate), European Multiculturalism(s) (with T. Modood and N. Meer, 2011, Edinburgh University Press, in press), What is Europe? (with R. Gropas, 2012, Palgrave, forthcoming), Migrant Smuggling. Irregular Migration from Africa and Asia to Europe (with T. Maroukis, 2012, Palgrave, in press).

For more details on her work please visit: www.annatriandafyllidou.com