Associate Professor in Modern Social History

CONTACT
University of Crete
Department of Sociology
Gallos Campus
74100 Rethymno Greece
Tel: +302831077483
E-mail: elfou at uoc.gr

Education

  • B.A. in History, Department of History and Archaeology, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (1981)
  • M.A. (D.E.A.) in History and Civilizations, University Paris 7 (1984)
  • Ph.D. (Nouveau Doctorat) in History and Civilizations, University Paris 7 (1992); topic of dissertation: “«Institutrice, Femme et Mère»: Idées sur l’Éducation des femmes grecques au XIXème siècle (1830-1880)”.

Career

  • 1995-1999: affiliated to the University of Crete, Department of Sociology, on a contractual basis (acc. to P.D. 407/1980) for the teaching of Social History
  • 1999-2013: Assistant Professor in Modern Social History, Department of Sociology, University of Crete
  • 2013 and onwards: Associate Professor in Modern Social History, Department of Sociology, University of Crete

Research interests

  • Modern social and cultural history (19th century – 1940)
  • Women’s and gender history and historiography
  • History of education, childhood and youth – Education and the construction of gender difference
  • History of women’s collective action and protest
  • History of citizenship, public sociality and the press
  • Social history of physical education, sport and bodily culture
  • History of sexuality
  • From 2009 and onwards Eleni Fournaraki is member of the group of Editors of Aspasia – The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women’s and Gender History, Berghahn Books: New York – Oxford https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/aspasia/aspasia-overview.xml?tab_body=editorial%20board

Selected Publications

Book and Edited Volumes

  • Society and Sport in Greece: Sociological and Historical Perspectives (Co-editor and co-author of the “Introduction” with Yiannis Zaimakis), Alexandria Publications: Athens 2015 (367 p.) (in Greek).
  • Gender in History: Historiographical Accounts and Case Studies, (Co-editor and co-author of the “Introduction” with Glafki Gotsi and Androniki Dialeti), Asini: Athens 2015 (373 p.) (in Greek).
  • Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece (Co-editor with Zinon Papakonstantinou), Routledge: London / New York 2011 (186 p.) [reproduction of the special issue / annual historical review of The International Journal of the History of Sport, 27/12, August 2010].
  • Girls’ education and training: Greek discourses (1830-1910). An anthology, [with Introduction: pp. 13-72],Historical Archives of Greek Youth – General Secretary of the Young Generation (Ministry of Domestic Affairs), Athens 1987 (in Greek).

Chapters in edited volumes

  • “Acting Internationally, Thinking Nationally: Aspects of the International and Inter-Balkan Collaborations of the Lyceum Club of Greek Women in the Interwar Period (1919-1939)”, in Katerina Dalakoura and Krassimira Daskalova (eds), Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe, Central University Press (CEU): New York – Budapest (under publication, 2025).
  • “Gender History in Greece,” (Co-author with Androniki Dialeti and Yannis Yannitsiotis), in History and Historiography in Greece: Recent Trends, ed. Nikos Christofis, Berghahn Books: New York – Oxford 2025, pp. 190-209. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781805399865
  • “Constructing the ‘Hellenic-worthy’ body: Gender and class meanings of physical exercise and national identity on the occasion of the 1896 Athens Olympics”, in G. Gotsi / A. Dialeti / E. Fournaraki (eds), Gender in History: Historiographical Accounts and Case Studies, Asini: Athens 2015, pp. 303-338 (in Greek).
  • “Gendered conceptualizations of citizenship in 19th century Greece”, in E. Papataxiarchis (ed.), The Politics of Everyday Life: Border, Body and Citizenship, Alexandria Publications: Athens 2014, pp. 395-418 (in Greek).
  • “Bodies that Differ: Mid- and Upper-Class Women and the Quest for ‘Greekness’ in Female Bodily Culture (1896-1940)’, in Eleni Fournaraki – Zinon Papakonstantinou (eds), Sport, Bodily Culture and Classical Antiquity in Modern Greece, Routledge: London / New York 2011, pp. 49-85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09523367.2010.497330

Journal articles (refereed)

  • «De la France à la Grèce, et vice versa : Diffusions et appropriations du saint-simonisme (1803‑1843)», (Co-author with Ioannis Koubourlis, Dimitris Foufoulas, Myrto Lamprou), Rives méditerranéennes, 63 (2022), σ. 27-42.
  • “Three Decades of Women’s History in Greece: An Account”, [Co-author with Yannis Yannitsiotis] Aspasia – The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women’s and Gender History, v. 7 (2013), pp. 162-173.
  • «Genre et éducation physique en Grèce du XIXe siècle : aspects idéologiques d’un nouveau champ pédagogique (1850-1900)», Etudes Balkaniques – Cahiers Pierre Belon 11 (2004), pp. 93-124. https://doi.org/10.3917/balka.011.0005
  • “«Wherefore deprive her of the vote?». Universal male suffrage and the exclusion of women from politics in 19th century-Greece”, Mnimon 24 (2002), pp. 179-226 (in Greek). https://doi.org/10.12681/mnimon.739