Eve Levin

Contact Information Phone: (785) 864-9463 Office: 3638 Wescoe Hall Email: evelevin@ku.edu

Associate Professor. (Ph.D. Indiana University, 1983; M.A. Indiana University 1976; B.A. Mount Holyoke College, 1975).

My area of specialization is Russia and Eastern Europe, and my own research concentrates on the pre-modern period (9th-18th centuries). I am particularly interested in gender, sexuality, popular culture, Orthodox Christianity, and medicine, focusing on Russia and the Balkans, and I happily supervise graduate students whose interests extend into other areas. Major publications include the monograph Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 (Cornell University Press, 1989) and the translation of Natalia Pushkareva's book Women in Russian History (M.E. Sharpe, 1997), which won the Heldt Prize for Best Translation in Slavic Women's Studies. I have a monograph on popular religion that appeared in Russian from the Moscow publisher Indrik in 2004. I am currently preparing a monograph on the experience of illness in 16-18th century Russia, examining folk therapies, Western medicine, and spiritual healing. In addition, since 1997, I have served as Editor of The Russian Review, a major interdisciplinary academic journal, now hosted by KU.