Myrto Dimitropoulou Historian (PhD) – Independent Researcher
PERSONAL INFORMATION
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DATE OF BIRTH		04/07/1977
EDUCATION
09/2003- 12/2008	Doctorat d’Histoire Athènes au XIXe siècle : de la bourgade à la capitale Faculté de Géographie, Histoire, Histoire de l’Art, Tourisme, Université Lumière, Lyon II, Directeur de thèse Jean-Luc Pinol
09/2001- 06/2003	DEA d’Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine Athènes et les Athéniens à la Belle Epoque Faculté de Géographie, Histoire, Histoire de l’Art, Tourisme, Université Lumière, Lyon II, Directeur de mémoire  Olivier Faron
09/1995-05/2001	BA in Economics Department of Economic Sciences, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
RECENT WORK & RESEARCH APPOINTMENTS
2021- 2025	Research Associate. Research project: ITHACA: Interconnecting Histories and Archives for Migrant Agency: Entangled Narratives Across Europe and the Mediterranean Region. Horizon 2020 - Research and Innovation Framework Program. Call: H2020-SC6-MIGRATION-2020
6/2021 – 9/2021	The Benaki Museum Wall texts and captions, Exhibition 1821: The Collectors’ Choice with works from four important private collections: Nikitas Stavrinakis and Evangelias Stavrinaki, Petros Vergos, Apostolos Argyriadis and Stéphan Adler. 25/6 – 12/9/2021. The Benaki Museum 1821: The Collectors' Choice
11/2019 – 2/2020	ATHENS BEACH CLUB Α.Ε. Conducting research and carrying out interviews on the history of the Municipality of Voula and the 2nd Beach of of Voula
10/2017 – 6/2019	Ionian Hotel Enterprises S.A Principal Investigator. Project: Athens Hilton Historical Archive -                     Definition of the architecture of the physical and digital historical archive of the luxury hotel Hilton Athens -                      Communication with local, national and international institutions (companies, universities, Archives, Museums) -                      Primary and secondary research -                      Recording, documentation, archiving and file classification -                      Conduction of open interviews -                      Writing reports, presentations to the BoD and the public
9/2017 – 11/2017	Research centre for the humanities and Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation. Research Associate. Project “Digital Archive for the Greek Revolution of 1821” -                      Coordination and organization of works for the digitization of the Historical Art Collection of Costa Navarino -                      Documentation and classification of the Historical Art Collection -                      Writing of a catalog presenting the Historical Art Collection of Costa Navarino
6/2013 – 6/2017	Captain Vassilis and Carmen Constantakopoulos Foundation. Principal Investigator. Project: Captain Vassilis and Carmen Konstantakopoulos' personal and professional archive -                      Definition of the architecture of the physical and digital historical archive -                      Primary and field research -                      Recording, classification, archiving and documentation -                      Coordination, control, guidance of the construction of a Digital Library -                      Conduction of open videotaped interviews
9/2009 – 10/2014	National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Researcher -                      Syllabus co-preparation and editing of the course “Urban History” supervising students -                      Researcher at research projects for the study of the contemporary social history of the city of Athens funded by the “Special Account” of Research Committee – ELKE. Conduction of primary research, creation of digital data bases (excel), administrative support. -                      09/2009 – 01/2010: Preparation and co- writing a proposal of a research project on the history of 20th century Athens with a budget of 600.000 €. Within this framework I had to prepare the technical sheets and the project's budget and coordinate four different research groups and 62 scientists from Greece and Europe. -                      11/2008 – 02/2009 Coordinator of the organization of the international conference “Health and welfare: diversity and convergence in policy and practice” with the participation of 67 scientists from ten European countries.
10/2004-09/2007	National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Researcher. Project: “Economic and social history of modern Athens, 1834-1950”. Scientific coordinator: Eugenia Bournova; Funding body: Operational Programme for Education and Primary Vocational Training II (OPEIVT II) in the framework of “Pythagoras: reinforcement of research groups in the Universities” co-financed by the E.S.F. and national funds -                      Conduction of primary and field research -                      Creation of a digital data base (excel) -                      Co-witting the research proposal -                      Administrative and financial management of the research program (budget € 80.000)
TEACHING APPOINTMENTS
9/2014 – 7/2015	National & Kapodistrian University of Athens Co-teaching the course "The urban phenomenon: the creation / expansion of cities" in the action "Plato Academy - The State and the Citizen", subproject Short-term Educational Programs for Adult Citizens, of the Operational Program Education and Lifelong Learning of the Ministry of Education & religious affairs

publications
UNDER PUBLICATION (12/2023)	"The Athens Hilton Digital Historical Archive (GRHAAH). Challenges and methodology”, in Digitized and natively digital archives: policies, methodologies, applications and considerations, Archion Taxis (in collaboration with E. Mavrikas).
UNDER PUBLICATION(2023)	“Influenza from late 19th century to 1920”. Chapter in an edited volume dedicated to the pandemics in the Greek area (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
2022	«Histoires de dots, de familles et de transmission des biens à Athènes 19e – début 20e siècle», Annales de Démographie Historique, 2022 (2), 1-16, σ. 115-141 (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
2015		"The capital’s social and professional stratification, 1860-1940"in Maloutas T., Spyrellis S. (eds) (2015) Athens Social Atlas. Digital compendium of texts and visual material (http://www.athenssocialatlas.gr/en/) (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
2015		"Les réseaux de parrainage dans une capitale orthodoxe: Athènes du milieu du XIXe siècle au milieu du XXe siècle". G. Alfani, V. Gourdon, I. Robin (dir.) Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique. Pratiques de longue durée (XVIe - XXIe). ed Peter Lang, Bruxelles 2015, p. 405 - 428 (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
2012		«[...] ετέλεσεν […]τον γάμον αυτών καθ’ όλας του Νόμου τας διατάξεις και τους εκκλησιαστικούς τύπους». Οι Ληξιαρχικές πράξεις γάμου του Δήμου Αθηναίων, 1862-1910» (““...and I performed the marriage in accordance to the provisions of the Law and the church rules”. The Athenian registers of marriage, 1862-1910”) in Θεωρητικές αναζητήσεις και εμπειρικές έρευνες. Πρακτικά Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου Οικονομικής και Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας, Ρέθυμνο December 2008, Publ. ΦΣΠΚ - Αλεξάνδρεια, Athens, 2012, p. 33-54. http://hdoisto.gr/gr/activities/eeoi-conferences-archive/2008-conference
2005		«Η Αθήνα κατά το δεύτερο μισό του 19ου αιώνα: Χαρακτηριστικά του μεταναστευτικού ρεύματος. Μια πρώτη προσέγγιση» (Athens during the second half of the 19th century: The characteristics of the migration movement. A first approach), in Λ. Σαπουνάκη - Δρακάκη (επιμ.), Η ελληνική πόλη σε ιστορική προοπτική, Publ. Διόνικος, Athens, 2005, p. 123-130.
CONFERENCE PAPERS
SEPTEMBER 2014		«Public health in Athens during the first decades of the 20th century». European Society of Historical Demography, Launching Conference, Alghero - Sassari (Sardinia, Italy), 25-27 September 2014. (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
OCTOBER 2012		«Habiter a Athènes, 1860 - 1910. Ségrégation spatiale et résidentielle».1st International Congress. Cities through History: Population, Guimaraes, Portugal, 2012
APRIL 2012		«Networks of godparenthood in Athens, 19th and 20th centuries». 9th European Social Science History conference, Glasgow University, Scotland, UK, 2012. (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
JUNE 2010		«Être jeune à Athènes a la fin du XIXe siècle : aspects de la vie juvénile a la capitale grecque». IX Congreso de la Asociacion de Demografia Historica, Ponta Delgada, Azores, 17, 18, 19 June 2010
DECEMBER 2008		“In front of me, the Mayor of the city of Athens.” Demographic behavior in Athens during the second half of the 19th century”. International Conference of Economic and Social History. New Perspectives in Theory and Empirical Research, Rethymno, Crete, December 2008.
MARCH 2008		«Coordonner les sources athéniennes en quête de la ségrégation. 1860-1940». International Conference Descriptio Urbis. Measuring and representing the modern and contemporary city, Rome, 27 - 29 March 2008. (in collaboration with E. Bournova)
OCTOBER 2004		«Athènes au XIXe siècle : de la bourgade a la capitale». 7th International Conference on Urban History, Piraeus, 27 - 30 October 2004

LANGUAGES
	English (Proficiency) French (D.E.L.F. 2nd Degré) Spanish (Basico)
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
SCHOLARSHIP 2/2011 – 1/2012		Post-doc scholarship from the Hellenic National Scholarships Foundation. Research on the causes of death and the social and demographic characteristics of the deceased in Athens from 1880 to 1910.

Ms. Eugenia BOURNOVA

Historian, Professor,

Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

 

Ι. PERSONAL INFORMATION

Born in Larissa, Greece, in 1958

Contact details: Department of Economics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 1, Sofokleous str,

GR 10559 Athens, Greece

E mail address: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

II. FOREIGN LANGUAGES

French and English

III. EDUCATION

1980: Licence d'histoire, University of LYON II, France

1981: Maitrise d'histoire, University of LYON II, France

1986: Doctorat de 3ème cycle in history and civilisations: ''Rapsani dans la première moitié du 20ème siècle. Essaie d'économie sociale d'un village grec '' supervisor Maurice GARDEN, University of LYON II, France

IV. PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1987 - 1990: University of Crete, Department of Sociology (European Social History 18^th-20^th Century, History of population)

1990 - Present: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of Economics (European economic and social history 18^th-20^th century, urban history)

V. RESEARCH INTERESTS:

History of population, history of public health, history of real estate market: for the last decade research work has focused on the 20^th century Athens.

Academic/scientific coordinator of «Economic and social history of modern Athens, 1834-1950», project which was co-funded by the European Social Fund and National Resources – (EPEAEK II) PYTHAGORAS 2004-2007.

See also: http://www.social-history-of-modern-athens.gr/

VI. SUBJECTS TAUGHT

1 Economic and Social History (European history 18^th - 20th centuries).).

2. 2. Greek Economic and Social History 1830-1940
3. 3. History of the rural world
4. 4. Urban History (19th-20th centuries)

VII. PUBLICATIONS

Books:

1. Ιστορική Δημογραφία και ιστορία της καθημερινότητας, στη Ραψάνη από το 1900 έως το 1950,[Historical demography and history of everyday life, in Rapsani from 1900 to 1950] publ. Πλέθρον, Athens 1995, 158 p(in Greek).
2. ΑπότιςΝέεςΚυδωνίεςστοΔήμοΑιγάλεω, Ησυγκρότησημιαςπόληςστον 20όαιώνα,[From Nees Kydonies to the city of Aigaleo: the formation of a town in the 20^th century] publ. Πλέθρον, Athens 2002, 235 p(in Greek).
3. Οι κάτοικοι των Αθηνών, 1900-1960. Ηδημογραφία, [The inhabitants of Athens, 1900-1960. Demography], statistical analysis: Myrto Dimitropoulou, cartography: Stavros Spyrellis, Departement of Economics / N.K.U.A, Athens 2016, 254 p. http://ebooks.epublishing.ekt.gr/index.php/econ/catalog/book/58

 

Articles:

1. «Le village et le marchand: le cas de Rapsani» in Dertilis (éd.) BANQUIERS, USURIERS ET PAYSANS, réseaux de crédit et stratégies du capital en Grèce (1780-1930), Éditions La Découverte/ Fondation des Treilles, Paris, 1988, p. 105-117.
2. «Évolution des systèmes de crédit en Méditerranée: le cas de la Crète au début du 20ème siècle», in Histoire & mesure, 1995 X-1/2, p. 25-45.
3. «Compter les crétois ou avoir vingt ans en Crète en 1900» (en collaboration avec Maurice Garden) in L’ouvrier, l’Espagne, la Bourgogne et la vie provinciale.Parcours d’un historien. Mélanges offerts à Pierre Ponsot, U.L.-Casa de Velàzquez, Madrid, 1995, p. 389-404.
4. «Santé publique et corps médical en transition: le cas de la Crète au début du XXe siècle» in Annales de démographie historique, 1996, 119-136.
5. «Systèmes de crédit et marché immobilier en Méditerranée: le cas de la Crète (fin XIXe- milieu XXe siècle)» in Fontaine, G. Postel-Vinay, J.-L. Rosenthal et P. Servais (éd), Des personnes aux institutions, Actes du colloque international «Centenaire des FUCAM», Mons, 14-16 novembre 1996, p. 385-407.
6. «Ο αγροτικός κόσμος: 1830-1940» (in collaboration with G. Progoulakis) [The rural economy: 1830-1940], in V. Κremmydas (ed.), Εισαγωγή στη Νεοελληνική Οικονομική Ιστορία, 18ος-20ός αιώνας [Initiation to the modern Greek economic history, 18th-20th century], Athens 1999, p. 45-104.
7. «Κοινωνικο-επαγγελματικές δομές και πληθυσμιακές μεταβολές στο Ρέθυμνο. Από την Οθωμανική Αυτοκρατορία στο Ελληνικό Κράτος» [Socio-professionnal structures and population’s changes in Rethimno. From the Ottoman empire to the Greek state] in Πρακτικά του Β΄ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου «Η πόλη στους νεότερους χρόνους, Μεσογειακές και Βαλκανικές όψεις (19ος-20ός αι.)», Athens 27-30 Νovember 1997, Εταιρία Μελέτης Νέου Ελληνισμού, Athens 2000, p. 437-445.
8. «Le monde rural grec, 1830-1912» (in collaboration with G. Progoulakis) in Ruralia 8, 2001, p. 13-35.
9. Κωνσταντίνος Χρηστίδης, Πορεία μιας ζωής: Από τα Γιάννενα στο Βουκουρέστι, 1818-1908 [Konstantinos Christides, Course of life: From Giannena to Bucarest, 1818-1908], scientific editorship and introduction Eugenia Bournova, publ. Πλέθρον, Athens
10. Introduction to the Greek translation of the book of Gérard Béaur, La terre et les hommes; France et Grande Bretagne au 17^e et 18^e siècle [Η γη και οι άνθρωποι, Γαλλία και Μεγάλη Βρετανία τον 17ο και 18ο αιώνα], Τυπωθήτω, Athens 2003, p. 9-16.
11. « Προπολεμική διαβίωση και κατοχική επιβίωση στην Αθήνα: ιστορία καθημερινής ζωής » [Prewar living and survival in occupied Athens: a story of everyday life] (in collaboration with Stavros Thomadakis), in Τα Ιστορικά, n. 41, December 2004, p. 455-470 (in Greek).
12. «Η ελληνική ιστοριογραφία απέναντι στην αγροτική μεταρρύθμιση » [Greek historiography regarding the agrarian reform], in Πρακτικά του Δ΄ Διεθνούς Συνεδρίου Ιστορίας «Ιστοριογραφία της νεότερης και σύγχρονης Ελλάδας, 1833-2002», Κέντρο Νεοελληνικών Ερευνών του Εθνικού Ιδρύματος Ερευνών (ΚΝΕ/ΕΙΕ), Athens 2004, v. Β΄, p. 373-387.
13. «Στα Τουρκοβούνια και Στην Αθήνα με το όνειρο: πτυχές της εσωτερικής μετανάστευσης» [Tourkovounia and To Athens with the dream ] in Η μετανάστευση στον κινηματογράφο, Υπουργείο Εξωτερικών, Υπηρεσία Διπλωματικού και Ιστορικού Αρχείου, Κινηματογραφικό Αρχείο, Athens 2004, p. 221-234.
14. «Θάνατοι από πείνα: η Αθήνα το χειμώνα του 1941-1942» [Deaths from starvation: Athens in the winter of 1941-1942], in Αρχειοτάξιο, 7, May 2005, p. 52-73 (in Greek).
15. « The population of Athens and its region during the second half of 19th century» (in collaboration with Maurice Garden) [Ο πληθυσμός της Αθήνας και της γύρω περιοχής κατά το 2^ο μισό του 19^ου αιώνα], in Τα Ιστορικά, 43, December 2005, p. 373-396.
16. «Εμπορικές επιχειρήσεις και οικογενειακές αντιδικίες»[Commercial firms and family contentions], in Τα Ιστορικά, n. 45, December 2006, p. 447-455.
17. «La mortalité en transition dans une ville méditerranéenne: Rethymno au début du XXe siècle», in Histoire Urbaine, n. 21, April 2008, p. 5-30.
18. «La population d’Athènes et de sa région dans la seconde moitié du XIX^ème siècle» (in collaboration with Maurice Garden), in Annales de Démographie Historique, 2010, n.1, p. 181-203.

https://www.cairn-int.info/article-E_ADH_119_0181--the-population-of-athens-and-the.htm

19. « Surviving in Athens during the German Occupation» in The experience of Occupation, 1931-1949, Proceedings, International conference Wuhan, China, 14-16 April 2008, Wuhan University Press, 2010, p. 299- 308.
20. “The ecomonic conditions during the occupation” [Οι οικονομικές συνθήκες στην περίοδο της Κατοχής] (in collaboration with Georges Progoulakis), in Έξι στιγμές του εικοστού αιώνα, Κατοχή Αντίσταση 1941-1944, editor Hagen Fleischer, 2010, Athens, p. 57-71 (in Greek).
21. “Urban development in Greece and Greater Athens, 1950-2001” (in collaboration with G. Progoulakis), in Lars Nilsson (editor), The coming of the post-industrial city, Challenges and responses in Western European urban development since 1950, Stockholm 2011, p. 149-170
22. «Naître à Athènes pendant la première moitié du XXe siècle. Démographie et institutions» (in collaboration with Maurice Garden), in Annales de Démographie Historique 2014 no 1, p. 209-230
23. "The creation of new cities in the region of the Greek capital during the twentieth century: the case of Egaleo", International Journal of Regional and Local History, 2015, Volume 10, Issue 1 (May 2015), 47-68. http://www.maneyonline.com/doi/10.1179/2051453015Z.00000000024
24. «Les réseaux de parrainage dans une capitale orthodoxe: Athènes, du milieu du XIX^e siècle au milieu du XX^e siècle» (in collaboration with Myrto Dimitropoulou) in Guido Alfani, Vincent Gourdon, Isabelle Robin (dir.) Le parrainage en Europe et en Amérique, Pratiques de longue durée (XVI^e-XXI^e), ed Peter Lang, Bruxelles 2015, p. 405-428.
25. Bournova Ε., Dimitropoulou Μ. (2015) The capital’s social and professional stratification, 1860-1940 in Maloutas T., Spyrellis S. (eds) (2015) Athens Social Atlas. Digital compendium of texts and visual material(http://www.athenssocialatlas.gr/en/).
26. «Quand Athènes a dû se confronter à la grippe espagnole » in Isabelle Séguy, Monica Ginnaio, et Luc Buchet (editors) Les conditions sanitaires des populations du passé : Environnements, maladies, prophylaxies et politiques publiques, éditions APDCA, Antibes, 2018, p.237-255.

27.  Bournova Eugenia., Stoyannidis Yannis, Gazochori: The History of a Neighbourhood (1857-1980) in Maloutas T., Spyrellis S. (eds), Athens Social Atlas. Digital compendium of texts and visual material (http://www.athenssocialatlas.gr/en/), 2018.

28. Fabrice Boudjaaba, Eugenia Bournova, Michaël Gasperoni et Vincent Gourdon, « Introduction », Bulletin de correspondance hellénique moderne et contemporain [on line], 1 | 2019, mis en ligne le 01 décembre 2019, consulté le 06 mars 2020. URL : http://journals.openedition.org/bchmc/280
29. « Histoires de dots, de familles et de transmission des biens à Athènes 19e – début 20e siècle », (in collaboration with Dimitropoulou Myrto), in Annales de Démographie Historique, 2022-2, σελ. 115-141.
30. «1900-1950, women's physicians career paths/trajectories in Athens. A contribution to women’s history understanding» (in collaboration with Myrto Dimitropoulou), in Genealogy 2023, 7(1), 7; https://doi.org/10.3390/genealogy7010007
31. “Going down Piraeus Street: the metamorphoses of a street, witness of industrial Greece”(in collaboration with Vincent Gouzi), in Maloutas T., Spyrellis S. (eds), Athens Social Atlas. Digital compendium of texts and visual material (http://www.athenssocialatlas.gr/en/), 2023.

 

Book review

Violetta Hionidou, Λιμός και θάνατος στην κατοχική Ελλάδα, 1941-44, [Famine and death in occupied Greece, 1941-1944], Athens: Estia, 2010. 295 pp., Historein (Vol. 12) 2012, p. 144-148.

 

International Conferences:

1. International Conference «Health and the City: The city as healthy and/or as unhealthy place? (Middle Ages to the present)», Vienna 2-4 June 2005.

Title: «Doctors, diseases and mortality in the Mediterranean: the case of Crete in the very early 20th Century».

2. International Conference «The price of life: welfare systems, social nets and economic growth», Catania 17-18 June 2005.

Title: «Famine and deaths in Athens during the German occupation».

3. 3. Workshop on Welfare, Health and Social Change, Linköping, Sweden, August 24-26, 2006

Title: « Welfare and health in the city of Athens: from the Balkans Wars to the 1960’s”.

4. 4. Eighth International Conference on Urban History, Stockholm 30^th August-2^nd September 2006.

Title: «Surviving in Athens during the German occupation».

5. 5. Colloque international « Villes en Guerre (1939-1945) », Grenoble, 25-26 January 2007

Title: «Combattre la faim à Athènes pendant l’occupation allemande».

6. 6. Workshop on European Frontiers, Marginalities and Vulnerabilities, Paris, 2007, March 30 and 31.

Title: « Les beaux quartiers of Athens: from the interwar period to the 1950s».

7. 7. Workshop on Welfare, Health and Social Change-Comparative Perspectives, Cluj-Napoca, 21-22 September 2007

Title: «Health services and public health in Athens: 1834-1940, a transitional century».

8. Seventh European Social Science History Conference, Lisbon, 26 February – 1 March 2008.

Title: «Athens in the 1950’s: urbanization, real estate and social segregation»

9. International conference Descriptio Urbis, measuring and representing the modern and contemporary city, Rome, 27-29 March 2008

Title: «Coordonner les sources athéniennes en quête de la ségrégation, 1860-1940» (in collaboration with Myrto Dimitropoulou)

10. International conference The experience of Occupation, 1931-1949, Wuhan, China, 14-16 April 2008

Title: « Surviving in Athens during the German Occupation»

11. Workshop on Welfare, health and social change, Pamplona, Spain, 17-18 October 2008

Title: «Public Health, medical stuff and hospitals in Athens during the 20^th century»

12. International conference “Health and Welfare: diversity and convergence in policy and practice”, Athens 19-22 February 2009

Title: “Medical staff, diseases and mortality in Athens, 20^th century”

13. XVth World Economic History Congress, Utrecht, The Netherlands, August 3-7, 2009

Title: “1950-2000: from urbanization and industrialization to population stagnation and services”.

14. IX Congreso de la Associacion de Demografia Historica, Ponta Delgada, Universidades dos Açores, S.Miguel, Açores, 16-19 junio 2010

Title (in collaboration with Maurice Garden) : ‘Le sort des enfants athéniens pendant la première moitié du XXeme siècle’

15. 15. 9th European Social Science History Conference, Glasgow, 11-14 April 2012,

-Title: “The creation of new cities in Greater Athens during the 20^th century” and

-Title (in collaboration with Myrto Dimitropoulou): «Networks of godparenthood in Athens, 19th and 20th centuries»

16. International Congress CITIES THROUGH HISTORY, Guimaraes, Portugal, 24-26 October 2012,

Title: «Aspects of the production of urban space in Athens during the 20th century»

17. European Society of Historical Demography, Launching Conference, Alghero, 25-27 September 2014,

Title (in collaboration with Myrto Dimitropoulou): “Public Health in Athens during the first decades of the 20^th Century”.

18. Colloque international « Hippocrate sans frontières. Soigner en terre étrangère au XIX siècle », Paris, 15-16 novembre 2018,

Titre « Des médecins grecs à Paris. Parcours géographiques et enjeux sociaux »

 

 

VIII. OTHER SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES - SOCIAL ACTION

Board member of the Historical Archive of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens from 2006

Founding and board member of the Greek Network of the history of health since 2017

Board Member of the Greek Society of Economic History 2008-2010

Board Member of the Association of Teaching Staff of School of Law, Eonomics and Political Sciences since its foundation up to 2012 (Secretary for 10 years and President 2009-2012)

Member of Executive Committee of the Panhellenic Federation of Faculty Members (P.O.S.D.E.P.) for 14 years of which 8 Secretary P.O.S.D.E.P until 2012.

Member of the Council of National and Kapodistrian University of Athens 2012-2016.

Member of IUF (Institut Universitaire de France) Senior Jury 2103 and IUF Junior Jury 2015 (Excellence programs)

Member of the scientific network PARTINUS

Member of the scientific network SHiP (Studying the history of Health in Port cities)

 

Eugenia Bournova has been teaching Urban History in the Department of Economics at the University of Athens since 2000 and, to this end, has edited and supervised the Greek translation (Athens: Plethron, 2000) of Jean-Luc Pinol’s Le Monde des Villes au XIXe Siecle (Paris: Hachette, 1991). Ms Bournova wrote a history of the Municipality of Egaleo, based on the city’s municipal registry records, before turning her focus to Athens and the Capital Region during the Occupation.

Myrto Dimitropolou developed an interest in urban history whilst taking the course at the Department of Economics, UoA and went on to receive her postgraduate DEA (MAS) in 2001. She completed her education and was awarded a PhD from the Lumière University Lyon 2 in 2008; her doctoral thesis was on the social history of Athens during the period 1860 - 1910.

Both researchers are historians, and both are graduates of the same university - Lumière University Lyon 2 - which is known for its tradition in urban history and which boasts world-class faculty and internationally renowned academics, especially in the field of urban history (e.g. Maurice Garden, Jean-Luc Pinol).

During 2004 - 2007, Eugenia Bournova served as academic/scientific coordinator of the ‘Economic and Social History of Modern Athens, 1834-1960’ research project, within the framework of the EC co-funded EPEAEK II - Pythagoras programme; her research work on the capital is ongoing. Myrto Dimitropoulou was-and continues to be-the main researcher in this study.

 CV - Bournova Eugenia - Scientific coordinator
 CV - Dimitropoulou Myrto - Historian / Researcher

We believe that Athens deserves an ambitious research project that will address the various aspects of its urban history—that is, its entire history—from 1834, when it was declared capital, to the present.

The main problem that researchers face is the lack of a comprehensive Athens Historical Archive, which would bring together a large proportion of the archives that are currently scattered across the capital and held by various public agencies, organisations, associations and museums. These archives are often unsorted and uncatalogued, and one must be imaginative, persistent and patient in order to gain access to them, as this often requires special permits granted only through time-consuming procedures.

To this day, we have indexed a considerable volume of municipal, notarial, judicial and church archives and processed them into electronic databases. The statistical results are used, amongst other things, in Eugenia Bournova’s Urban History course .