Eftychia Kalaitzidou

About

Eftychia Kalaitzidou is a researcher at NTNU, at the Department of Modern History and Society. She holds a PhD in History from NTNU, where she defended her dissertation titled "The Missing Girls of Greece: Discriminatory Practices Against Girls in Greece from the Late 19th to Early 20th Century". The dissertation examined gender-discriminatory practices, including selective neglect and infanticide, and analyzed how economic, social, and cultural factors influenced sex ratios in historical demographic data. Eftychia’s research focuses on social and gender history, historical demography, and childhood history, with a particular emphasis on Europe. She is currently designing the project "Abandoned Children of Europe: Unravelling Culture, Gender, and Social Policies of Child Abandonment in Norway, Greece, and Beyond (ca. 1850–1920)", which explores child abandonment in historical contexts, emphasizing how gender, social policy, and cultural norms shaped these practices across different European countries. She has extensive teaching experience at NTNU, where she has lectured on modern history, historical theory and methodology, as well as topics related to European politics, society, war, and culture.

Eftychia is strongly committed to understanding how social, economic, and cultural factors have shaped gender-related practices and inequalities, and her research contributes to shedding light on these themes in various historical and cultural contexts.

Research

Missing Girls in Historical Europe

This project examines whether discriminatory practices increased female infant and child mortality in historical Europe (1700–1950), challenging the idea that gender discrimination was rare.

Publications

Outreach

2023

Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Abandoning Girls: Data from Greece of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Child abandonment and gender discrimination in the past , NTNU 2023-11-10 - 2023-11-10
Academic lecture

Kalaitzidou, 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 2023-06-26 - 2023-06-26
Academic lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Data Analysis. PhD Seminar , Trondheim 2023-06-08 - 2023-06-08
Academic lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Discriminatory practices against girls in Greece, late 19th to early 20th century. 5th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography , Nijmegen 2023-08-30 - 2023-09-02

2022

Academic lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Foundling Hospital of Athens: abandoning the female". Second Norwegian Historical Demography Meeting 2022-01-17 - 2022-01-18
Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) Abandoning Girls: data from the Foundling Hospital of Athens, 1920-1934. XIX World Economic History Conference , Paris 2022-07-25 - 2022-07-29
Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) Abandonment and the "breast-milk" trade. Norske Historiedager 2022 , Bergen 2022-06-24 - 2022-06-26
Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospital of Athens, 1920-1934". PhD Seminar: Institutt for moderne samfunnshistorie , Trondheim 2022-04-06 - 2022-04-06
Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospitals of Athens, 1920-1934. Conference: Sex Ratios and Missing Girls in History , Trondheim 2022-05-05 - 2022-05-06

2021

Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2021) “Gender perspectives in the lament songs of Mani.”. Modern History and Society Departmental Seminar , Trondheim 2021-06-18 -
Lecture

Tapia, Francisco Javier Beltrán; Kalaitzidou, Eftychia; Kovacevic, Marko. (2021) "Missing girls in Historical Europe". Norske Historiedager , Tromsø 2021-09-03 - 2021-09-05

2020

Lecture

Kalaitzidou, 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 2020-11-05 -
Lecture

Kalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2020) Research positionality_ Master oppgave. “The Importance of Research Positionality in a Post-Truth World” , Trondheim 2020-09-29 -

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