Adriana Atanasova Sarbova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Architecture, Assistant Professor, Architect
Areas of academic interest:
Thracian cult architecture; contemporary sacral architecture
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Alexandra Dimitrova Milanova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Scientific Coordinator of the Institute of Balkan Studies & Centre of Thracology
Areas of academic interest:
Modern and Contemporary History, International Relations, Science and Cultural Diplomacy, Urban Culture and Cultural Heritage.
Александър Григоров Костов
Научна степен и заемана длъжност:
Член-кореспондент на Българската академия на науките, доктор на историческите науки, професор
Научни интереси:
Aneta Vasileva Mihaylova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Contemporary history of the Balkans, Romania after WWII, elites, cultural policies, collective memory, national identity
Antoaneta Borislavova Balcheva
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Cultural history, identities, traditions and modernization in Southeast Europe, elites, imagology, culture of travel in the European Southeast, Bulgarian-Croatian cultural interactions, literary influences between Bulgarians and Italians in the 20th c.
Biser Todorov Banchev
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, historian
Areas of academic interest:
Bisser Petrov Petrov
Scientific degree and current position:
Dr. habil., Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Valeria Nikolova Fol
Scientific degree and current position:
Dr. habil., Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Ancient history, culture and religion of the European Southeast (Greece and Thrace) and the Mediterranean, Thracology, continuity between Antiquity and the subsequent historical eras in the European Southeast.
Vessela Konstantinova Atanassova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Areas of academic interest:
History and culture of Ancient Egypt, Ancient Egyptian art and architecture, History and culture of Ancient Thrace, Egyptian cults in Thrace, Thracian onomastics in Egypt
Vladislav Ivanov Ivanov
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Georgi Nikolov Dimov
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Medieval Balkan History; History of Byzantium and the Mediterranean; medieval numismatics and sigilography; material culture and art in the Middle Ages; economic and social history of the Middle Ages: cities, infrastructure, long-distance trade and communications in the so-called Great Mediterranean.
Gergana Georgieva Doncheva
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Cinema in the Balkans, Balkan cultures (with emphasis on Greek, Yugoslavian and post-Yugoslavian cultural space), migration processes and globalization.
Dimitar Georgiev Dobrev
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Contemporary history of the Balkans
Dobriela Todorova Kotova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Antiquity - Ancient History and Thracology, social history, gender studies, culture and religion, classical languages and literature
Dobrinka Dragieva Parusheva
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Modern and contemporary history of the Balkans (city and everyday life in the Balkans; political models; political elites); theory and history of culture (culture and caricature; cultural heritage and identity; visual culture).
Evlogi Genov Stanchev
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Ekaterina Pantcheva Dikova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Medieval translations from Greek into South Slavonic environment, rhythm, rhetoric, diachronic linguistics, etymology.
Elmira Mladenova Vassileva
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Catholic and Protestant propaganda in Southeastern Europe during the Ottoman period.
Zlatomira Todorova Gerdzhikova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Zorka Petrova Parvanova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Ivaylo Chavdarov Nachev
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Ivo Simeonov Topalilov
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Irina Lyubomirova Ognyanova-Krivoshieva
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Contemporary history and politics in South Eastern Europe; nationalism and religion.
Irina Dimitrova Shopova
Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor
Areas of academic interest:
Ancient history, culture, and religion of Southeastern Europe and the Mediterranean, Thracology, Ancient epigraphy.