معرفی
Violetta Hionidou is a Senior Lecturer in Modern European History at Newcastle University, UK. She holds a PhD from Liverpool University on the demographic history of Mykonos (1859–1959). A Visiting Fellow at Princeton University (2019), her research focuses on historical demography, family history, medical history, oral history, and famine studies. She has authored prize-winning works on the Greek famine during WWII and is completing a monograph on contraception/abortion in modern Greece (1830–1967).
Research Projects:
- Population Movements in Occupied Greece: Migration, Displacement and Their Effects, 1941–1946 (Princeton Fellowship Project)
- Study of refugee decision-making during famine, focusing on Chios migrants to Turkey and beyond
Publications:
- Abortion and Contraception in Modern Greece, 1830–1967 (Palgrave, 2020)
- Η κατοχική πείνα μέσα απο προφορικές μαρτυρίες (Patakis, 2020)
Awards: Prize-winning monograph Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941–1944 (Cambridge UP, 2006/2011 Greek ed.)
Grants/Fellowships: Visiting Research Fellowship at Princeton University (2019), supporting work on post-WWII refugee repatriation and famine history.
