Irene Anastasiadou

Irene Anastasiadou Irene Anastasiadou is a visiting researcher at the department of Industrial Engineering and Innovation Sciences (IE&IS) at the Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). She holds a B.Sc in Philosophy and History of Science from the University of Athens (1999, thesis supervisor Assoc. Prof. Theodore Arabatzis) and a M.A. in Philosophy and History of Science and Technology from the University of Athens and the National Technical University of Athens (2001, thesis supervisor Ass. Prof. Aristotle Tympas). In her PhD thesis, awarded to her in January 2009, she discusses railway internationalization in interwar Europe and the emergence of a transnational European community (thesis supervisors Prof. Johan Schot, Prof. Gijs Mom). Upon completion of her thesis, she worked for two more years as a post-doctoral researcher at the IE&IS of the Tu/e. Her research was financed by the KSI research network (http://www.ksinetwork.nl/), and the Eurocores, Inventing Europe project (http://www.esf.org/activities/eurocores/running-programmes/inventing-europe.html). She is currently working on various publications.

 

Irene Anastasiadou
IPO 2.03
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5600 MB Eindhoven
The Netherlands
+31(0)40-247 3461
i [dot] anastasiadou [at] tm [dot] tue [dot] nl

 

 

Publications

Books and chapters:

  • Irene Anastasiadou, In Search of a Railway Europe, (Aksant Academic Publishers, Amsterdam; forthcoming).

Articles and chapters:

  • Frank Schipper, Vincent Lagendijk & Irene Anastasiadou, "Universalism or Regionalism? The Work of the Advisory and Technical Committee for Communications and Transit of the League of Nation", in Materializing Europe: Toward a Transnational History of European Infrastructures, Andreas Fickers, and Alec Badenoch (eds), (London: Palgrave McMillan, 2010).

  • Aristotle Tympas and Irene Anastasiadou, An Indistinct Constellation: mobility history in Greece, Mobility History: the State of the Art in the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility, edited by G.P. A Mom, R.G. Pirie, L. Tissot, 2009, pp. 201 – 212.

  • Irene Anastasiadou and Colin Dival, Transnational Railways, entry in The Palgrave Dictionary on Transnational History, Akira Iriye & Pierre Saunier (eds) (Palgrave McMillan Publisher, London, January 2009), 873-5.

  • Irene Anastasiadou, "Networks of Power: Railway Visions in the interwar years", in Journal of Transport History, 28, 2 (2007), pp. 6-25.

  • (with Aristotle Tympas), 'Constructing Balkan Europe. The modern Greek pursuit of an "Iron Egnatia" ', in: Erik van der Vleuten and Arne Kaijser, eds. Networking Europe. Transnational infrastructures and the shaping of Europe, 1850-2000 (Sagamore Beach, MA: Science History Publications, 2006).

  • (with Erik van Vleuten, Vincent Lagendijk & Frank Schipper), 'Europe's System Builders: The Contested Shaping of Transnational Road, Electricity and Rail Networks', in:Contemporary European History 16, 3 (2007), pp.321-347.