Eftychia Kalaitzidou
About
Eftychia Kalaitzidou is a historian at NTNU, Department of Historical Sciences, working in the fields of social history, gender history, historical demography, and the history of childhood. She holds a PhD in History from NTNU. Her doctoral dissertation, The Missing Girls of Greece: Discriminatory Practices Against Girls in Greece from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century, examined gender-discriminatory practices against girls, including selective neglect and infanticide, and analysed how economic, social, and cultural factors shaped historical sex ratios. Her research explores how gender, family structures, social policy, and cultural norms shaped the lives and survival chances of women and children in modern Europe. She is particularly interested in questions of vulnerability, care, abandonment, institutional responsibility, inequality, and the social consequences of violence and exclusion.
Kalaitzidou is currently developing the project Abandoned Children of Europe: Unravelling Culture, Gender, and Social Policies of Child Abandonment in Norway, Greece, and Beyond (ca. 1850–1920). The project investigates child abandonment in historical contexts and examines how gender, welfare practices, and social norms influenced responses to vulnerable children across different European societies.
Her teaching and research interests also include the historical study of war, violence, trauma, gender, and society. She has broad teaching experience at NTNU, including modern history, historical theory and methodology, European politics and society, genocide studies, and courses on war, gender, and culture. In her teaching, she emphasises critical historical thinking, source analysis, and the connection between past societies and contemporary questions of inequality, citizenship, and social responsibility.
Competencies
- Children's rights
- Discrimination
- Europa på 1800- og 1900-tallet
- Folkemord
- Foundlings
- Gender and Feminist Studies
- Gender equality
- Gender history
- Genocide and political mass violence
- Historisk demografi
- History of Childhood
- Immigration
- Institusjonshistorie
- Kjønnshistorie
- Krig og trauma
- Krig: vold og samfunn
- Minorities and human rights
- Missing girls in historical Europe
- Velferdshistorie
- War trauma
- War/conflict
- Women and education
- Women and entrepreneurship
Publications
2025
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Tapia, Francisco Beltrán;
Raftakis, Michail;
Kalaitzidou, Eftychia.
(2025)
The Missing Girls of Greece: Discriminatory practices against girls in Greece from late 19th to early 20th century.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
2022
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Kalaitzidou, Eftychia.
(2022)
To Cry One’s Fate: Female Expressions of Pain in the Lamentation Songs of Mani in Modern Greece.
L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History
Academic article
Journal publications
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Kalaitzidou, Eftychia.
(2022)
To Cry One’s Fate: Female Expressions of Pain in the Lamentation Songs of Mani in Modern Greece.
L'Homme. European Journal of Feminist History
Academic article
Report
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Tapia, Francisco Beltrán;
Raftakis, Michail;
Kalaitzidou, Eftychia.
(2025)
The Missing Girls of Greece: Discriminatory practices against girls in Greece from late 19th to early 20th century.
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
Doctoral dissertation
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2023
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Abandoning Girls: Data from Greece of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Child abandonment and gender discrimination in the past , NTNU 10.11.2023 - 10.11.2023
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Academic lectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) “Gender discrimination practices against girls in Modern Greece, data from three census reports (1879, 1907 and 1920)”. Conference “Gender Discrimination in Modern Greece” , Athens 26.06.2023 - 26.06.2023
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Academic lecture
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Academic lectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Discriminatory practices against girls in Greece, late 19th to early 20th century. 5th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography , Nijmegen 30.08.2023 - 02.09.2023
2022
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Academic lectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Foundling Hospital of Athens: abandoning the female". Second Norwegian Historical Demography Meeting 17.01.2022 - 18.01.2022
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) Abandoning Girls: data from the Foundling Hospital of Athens, 1920-1934. XIX World Economic History Conference , Paris 25.07.2022 - 29.07.2022
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) Abandonment and the "breast-milk" trade. Norske Historiedager 2022 , Bergen 24.06.2022 - 26.06.2022
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospital of Athens, 1920-1934". PhD Seminar: Institutt for moderne samfunnshistorie , Trondheim 06.04.2022 - 06.04.2022
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospitals of Athens, 1920-1934. Conference: Sex Ratios and Missing Girls in History , Trondheim 05.05.2022 - 06.05.2022
2021
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2021) “Gender perspectives in the lament songs of Mani.”. Modern History and Society Departmental Seminar , Trondheim 18.06.2021 -
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LectureTapia, Francisco Javier Beltrán; Kalaitzidou, Eftychia; Kovacevic, Marko. (2021) "Missing girls in Historical Europe". Norske Historiedager , Tromsø 03.09.2021 - 05.09.2021
2020
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2020) Presentation of the PhD project "Discriminatory practices against girls in Greece from 1820 to 1950: A comparative research between the cosmopolitan island of Kefalonia and a rural area in the patriarchal Mani". Modern History and Society Departmental Seminar , Trondheim 05.11.2020 -
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2020) Research positionality_ Master oppgave. “The Importance of Research Positionality in a Post-Truth World” , Trondheim 29.09.2020 -