Eve Levin

Professor Levin's research (Ph.D. Indiana University, 1983) focuses on the intersection of religion and popular culture in premodern Russia and the Balkans. Her first monograph, Sex and Society in the World of the Orthodox Slavs, 900-1700 (Cornell University Press, 1989) remains the path-breaking book on this subject. It has appeared in Bulgarian, Serbian, and Russian (abridged) translation. Subsequent publications, including many articles and a Russian language monograph, Dvoeverie i narodnaia religiia v istorii Rossii (Indrik, 2004) address beliefs and practices of Russian Orthodox men and women, examining prayers, veneration of saints, and spiritual healing. Her current research project explores conceptions of illness in Russia, 15th-early 18th century, from the perspectives of patients, of care-givers—folk healers, faith healers, and Western doctors—and of the institutions of the State and the Church that regulated them. Her research has been supported by grants from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), Fulbright-Hays, the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX), and the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEER). In addition, Professor Levin is recognized as an outstanding translator; her edition of Natalia Pushkareva’s Women in Russian History (M.E. Sharpe, 1997) won the Heldt Prize for best translation in Slavic women’s studies. From 1997-2020, Professor Levin served as Editor of The Russian Review, a leading journal of interdisciplinary Russian studies.