Evguenia Davidova

Evguenia Davidova


Professor

History - Liberal Arts & Sciences

Office
CH CH 441-R
Hours
Wed: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Mon: 11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Phone
(503) 725-8992

Office Hours | Contact Instructions
Office hours will be held via Zoom. Go to Dr. Davidova's Zoom Meeting Room during the scheduled office hours. You can also email Dr. Davidova to schedule an appointment at a different time.

Fields of Expertise
Southeastern Europe/Ottoman Balkans (19th -20th Century): Trade; Travel; Nationalism; History of Medicine; Gender and Public Health.

Books

  • Evguenia Davidova, ed. Wealth in the Ottoman and post-Ottoman Balkans: A Socio-Economic History (London: I.B. Tauris, 2016).
  • Evguenia Davidova, Balkan Transitions to Modernity and Nation-States through the Eyes of Three Generations of Merchants (1780s-1890s) (Leiden: Brill, 2013).

Articles

  • “Nursing Education and the International Philanthropic Sphere in Interwar Southeast Europe,” Nursing History Review 32 (2023) (in print). 
  • “Monarchism with a Human Face: Balkan Queens and the Social Politics of Nursing in the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries),” Comparative Studies in Society and History 64, 3 (2022) 788-819. (Open access)
  • “The Wandering Orthodox Nuns: Mobility and Gender in the  Nineteenth-Century Central Balkans,” Slavic Review 79, 4 (Winter 2020): 731-754. 
  • “Circuits of Mobile Workers in the 19th-Century Central Balkans,” Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften/Austrian Journal of Historical Studies 31, 1 (2020): 48-67. (Open access)
  • “Les infirmières au service du nouvel État bulgare (1878-1941),” CLIO Femmes, Genre et Histoire 48, 2 (2018): 111-132.
  • “Serving the State: Military and Public Health Practices in Bulgaria (1878-1908),” European History Quarterly 48, 4 (2018): 686-707.  
  • “Business Partnerships and Practices from the Nineteenth-Century Ottoman Balkans," Turcica 44 (2012-2013): 203-231.
  • “‘Graecomans’ into Bulgarians: Shifting Perceptions of Greek-Bulgarian Interethnic Marriages in the Nineteenth Century,” Balkanologie, Vol. XIV, n° 1-2 | décembre 2012, [En ligne], mis en ligne le 25 janvier 2013. URL : http://balkanologie.revues.org/index2342.html
  • “Gender and Culture in the Turkish Province: The Observations of a Russian Woman Traveler (1868),” Aspasia. The International Yearbook of Central, Eastern, and Southeastern European Women's and Gender History 6 (2012): 79-95.

Courses Taught

  • HST Women & Health in Modern Europe
  • HST Social History of Disability
  • HST 459/559:  Roma in Eastern Europe 
  • INTL 407:  On the Rise of Nationalism and Populism
  • INTL 407:  Education in a Globalized World 
  • INTL 399:  Eastern Europe through Film
  • INTL 390:  Foundations of Global Studies
  • INTL 350U:  The City in Europe
  • UNST 144:  Health, Happiness and Human Rights
  • UNST 233:  Global Perspectives