Evy Johanne Hyland holds a PhD in History, and is a life-time government scholar (Norwegian, statsstipendiat). She is a former Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History of Art at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, where she worked on the project, "Greek Women and Death, Ancient and Modern: A Comparative Analysis", financed by the EU's 7th framework Programme. Her publications include Rituals of Death and Dying in Modern and Ancient Greece: Writing History from a Female Perspective (2014); Greek Festivals, Modern and Ancient: A Comparison of Female and Male Values (2017); and Women, Pain and Death: Rituals and Everyday-Life on the Margins of Europe and Beyond (2008).