Ohio State is in the process of revising websites and program materials to accurately reflect compliance with the law. While this work occurs, language referencing protected class status or other activities prohibited by Ohio Senate Bill 1 may still appear in some places. However, all programs and activities are being administered in compliance with federal and state law.

Georgios Anagnostou

Georgios Anagnostou

Georgios Anagnostou

Professor, Classics

anagnostou.1@osu.edu

614 688-3721

414 University Hall
230 N. Oval Mall
Columbus, OH
43210

Google Map

Areas of Expertise

  • Greek-American culture and society
  • Ethnography
  • Diaspora studies

Education

  • Ph.D., Ohio State, 1999
  • M.A., Louisiana State, 1992
  • M.S., Louisiana State, 1989
  • B.S., Thessaloniki, 1984

Books:

Διασπορικές διαδρομές. Αθήνα: Απόπειρα. 2012. [Diasporic Routes. Athens: Apopeira]. (Poems and reflections on migration and diaspora, in Greek; some bilingual)

Contours of White Ethnicity: Popular Ethnography and the Making of Usable Pasts in Greek America (Ohio University Press, 2009)

Book Chapter:

"Against Cultural Loss: Immigration, Life History, and the Enduring 'Vernacular.'" In Hellenisms: Culture, Identity, and Ethnicity from Antiquity to Modernity, edited by Katerina Zacharia, 355-77. Burlington, VT: Ashgate Publishing, 2008.

Recent Articles:

"When 'Second Generation' Narratives and Hollywood Meet: Making Ethnicity in My Big Fat Greek Wedding." MELUS (forthcoming)

"Empowering 'Greek American Studies'" (Position paper). http://immigrations-ethnicities-racial.blogspot.com/2013/12/empowering-greek-american-studies.html. December 11, 2013.

"White Ethnicity: A Reappraisal." Italian American Review. Vol. 3(2): 99-128. Summer 2013.

"When 'Second Generation' Narratives and Hollywood Meet: Making Ethnicity in My Big Fat Greek Wedding." MELUS Vol. 37 (4): 139-63. Winter 2012.

"Reading the Hyphen in Poetry." Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 29.2 (2011): 279–290.

"Where does 'Diaspora' Belong? The Point of View from Greek American Studies." Journal of Modern Greek Studies, Vol. 28.1 (2010): 73–119.

"A Critique of Symbolic Ethnicity: The Ideology of Choice?" Ethnicities, Vol. 9(1): 94-122. 2009.

"Research Frontiers, Academic Margins: Helen Papanikolas and the Authority to Represent the Immigrant Past." Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Vol. 34 (1&2): 9-29. 2008.

"The Politics of Metaethnography in the Age of 'Popular Folklore.'" Journal of American Folklore Vol.119.474 (2006): 381-412.

"Forget the Past, Remember the Ancestors! Modernity, 'Whiteness,' American Hellenism, and the Politics of Memory in Early Greek America." Journal of Modern Greek Studies Vol. 21.1 (2004): 25-71.

"'That Imagination Called Hellenism:' Connecting Greek Worlds, Past and Present, in Greek America." The Classical Bulletin. 80.2 (2004): 247-281

"Model Americans, Quintessential Greeks: Ethnic Success and Assimilation in Diaspora." Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies. Vol. 12.3 (2003):279-327.