Sia Anagnostopoulou


Athanasia "Sia" Anagnostopoulou is a left-wing Greek politician and academic who is currently the Alternate Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras. From 18 July to 28 August 2015, she served as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs in the First Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras.
Anagnostopoulou is currently an associate professor of history at the Panteion University, and has been a visiting professor at the New York University, the University of Cyprus and the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

Early life and education

Anagnostopoulou was born in Patras in 1959. She attended the 4th Lyceum of Patras before moving to Athens.
Anagnostopoulou studied at the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies, of the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Athens. She continued her studies in Paris, where she received two degrees. Firstly, a degree in Turkish language and culture from the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, and secondly a DEA in Histoire et Civilisations from the Pantheon-Sorbonne University.
She completed her PhD in history at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 1993.

Academic career

Anagnostopoulou taught for nine years, from 1995 to 2004, at the Turkish and Middle Eastern Studies Department of the University of Cyprus, and since 2004 she has taught in the Panteion University’s Political Science and History Department. She is currently an Associate Professor of History at the Panteion.
She has taught, as a visiting professor, at many universities in Europe and America, and she has published extensively. She was a visiting professor at New York University in 2000, at the University of Cyprus from 2008 to 2009, and at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in 2011. Her main research interests are nationalism in Greece, Turkey and Cyprus, and colonialism in Cyprus.
From 2000 to 2003, Anagnostopoulou headed the Cypriot Foreign Ministry's research team on issues concerning Turkey and the Turkish-Cypriot community. She is currently on the Board of the Greek Contemporary Social History Archives, and is on the editorial board of The History, an academic journal.

Political career

Anagnostopoulou was elected as a Syriza Member of the Hellenic Parliament for Achaea at the January 2015 Greek legislative election. She sits on the Standing Committee on National Defense and Foreign Affairs and on the Committee on European Affairs.
On 18 July 2015, Anagnostopoulou was appointed as the Alternate Minister for European Affairs, succeeding Nikolaos Chountis who resigned on 13 July. Following the appointment of the Second Cabinet of Alexis Tsipras, Anagnostopoulou was made the Alternate Minister of Education, Research and Religious Affairs.

Personal life

Anagnostopoulou can speak four languages fluently: Greek, French, Turkish and English.

Works

Books

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