Rate My Professor Euridice Charon-Cardona

Dr. Euridice Charon-Cardona serves as Honorary Associate Lecturer in the History discipline within the School of Humanities, Creative Industries and Social Sciences at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She earned her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Newcastle, along with a Bachelor of Social Science (Honours) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Anthropology from the same university. Additionally, she holds a Master’s degree in History from Tashkent University in Uzbekistan. Her academic career at the University of Newcastle began as a casual tutor in Anthropology while completing her PhD. Since 2004, she has worked on various research projects, most recently as Senior Research Associate for an Australian Research Council-funded project on Soviet women on the home front during the Second World War. Previous appointments include Russian Language Lecturer at Universidad Bolivariana (Centro de Idiomas Rosa Luxemburgo, Caracas), Venezuela (2010-2011), and Spanish Language Teacher at Hunter Institute TAFE Australia (2002-2007). A fluent speaker of Russian and Spanish, she employs these skills in detailed archival and interview-based research.

Euridice Charon-Cardona’s research specializations encompass historical and anthropological analyses of Cuban migration and diaspora, identity in migrant communities such as Cuban settlers in New South Wales since the late 1960s, Soviet women’s gendered experiences on Eastern frontlines and home fronts during World War II, the 1940s Blood Donors’ movement, women’s contributions to the Soviet home-front economy, and Soviet university education aid from 1956 to 1991. Key publications include the co-authored monograph Soviet Women on the Frontline in the Second World War (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) with Roger D. Markwick, shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s History Prize in 2013. Other notable works are chapters such as “Cuban education in the Cold War: National independence within international socialism” (2022, co-authored with Tom G. Griffiths), “Socialism and Education in Cuba and Soviet Uzbekistan” (2016), and the article “The kitchen garden movement on the Soviet home front, 1941–1945” (2019). She has received internal University of Newcastle grants totaling $35,645 for projects including Soviet visual propaganda on nurses (2012), religion and Marxism (2015), and strategic networks (2017).