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 holds an MPhil in Childhood Studies from NTNU, with a thesis titled "I wish my father had a job...": Children’s Experiences and Perspectives of Poverty in Contemporary Greece. This study explored children’s experiences and perspectives on poverty in the urban area of Athens following the economic crisis.
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.
Publications
2025
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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
Academic monograph
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
Books
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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
Academic monograph
Outreach
2023
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Academic lectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Discriminatory practices against girls in Greece, late 19th to early 20th century. European Society for Historical Demography 5th Conference Of The European Society Of Historical Demography , Nijmegen 2023-08-30 - 2023-09-02
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Academic lecture
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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)”. NTNU and the Norwegian Research Council Conference “Gender Discrimination in Modern Greece” , Athens 2023-06-26 - 2023-06-26
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2023) Abandoning Girls: Data from Greece of the late 19th and early 20th Century. Missing Girls of Historical Europe Child abandonment and gender discrimination in the past , NTNU 2023-11-10 - 2023-11-10
2022
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) Abandonment and the "breast-milk" trade. HIFO Norske Historiedager 2022 , Bergen 2022-06-24 - 2022-06-26
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LectureKalaitzidou, 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
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Academic lectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Foundling Hospital of Athens: abandoning the female". Second Norwegian Historical Demography Meeting 2022-01-17 - 2022-01-18
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospitals of Athens, 1920-1934. Francisco J. Beltran Tapia Conference: Sex Ratios and Missing Girls in History , Trondheim 2022-05-05 - 2022-05-06
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2022) "Abandoning Girls: Data from the Foundling Hospital of Athens, 1920-1934". Mats Ingulstad PhD Seminar: Institutt for moderne samfunnshistorie , Trondheim 2022-04-06 - 2022-04-06
2021
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LectureBeltrán Tapia, Francisco Javier; Kalaitzidou, Eftychia; Kovacevic, Marko. (2021) "Missing girls in Historical Europe". Uit Norske Historiedager , Tromsø 2021-09-03 - 2021-09-05
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2021) “Gender perspectives in the lament songs of Mani.” . Mats Ingulstad Modern History and Society Departmental Seminar , Trondheim 2021-06-18 -
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" . Øyvind Thomassen Modern History and Society Departmental Seminar , Trondheim 2020-11-05 -
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LectureKalaitzidou, Eftychia. (2020) Research positionality_ Master oppgave. Libe García Zarranz “The Importance of Research Positionality in a Post-Truth World” , Trondheim 2020-09-29 -