Ioanna Laliotou

Ioanna Laliotou was born in Athens in 1969. She studied history at the Department of History and Archaeology at the University of Athens (1987-1992) and pursued postgraduate studies at the University of Birmingham in the UK (M.Soc. Sc. in Cultural Studies, 1993) and at the European University Institute in Florence (Ph.D. in History and Civilization, 1998). Her book titled "Transatlantic Subjects. Acts of Migration and Cultures of Transnationalism between Greece and America" (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2004; Greek edition "Crossing the Atlantic: Greek Migration to the USA in the First Half of the Twentieth Century," Polis 2006) explores the history of the formation of the migrant as a social subject within the context of transatlantic cultural and political relations and exchanges. She is also a co-editor, along with Luisa Passerini, Enrica Capussotti, and Dawn Lyon, of the collective volume "Women Migrants From East to West: Gender, Mobility and Belonging in Contemporary Europe" (London: Berghahn Books, 2007). Recently, she completed the study "History of the Future. How Did the Twentieth Century Imagine an 'Other World'?" (Athens: Open Book Press, National Documentation Centre/EKT, 2017). She is an Associate Professor of Modern History at the Department of History, Archaeology, and Social Anthropology at the University of Thessaly and Vice-Rector of International and Public Relations at the same university. Her research interests include modern and contemporary history, the history of migration and diaspora, transnational studies, the history of subjectivity, intercultural relations, gender, cultural history, cultural theory and criticism, the history of utopia, and the concept of the future.