Denver Graninger, an ancient historian, has been Director of the American Research Center in Sofia since July 2010. Since receiving his PhD in Classics from Cornell University in 2006, he has taught at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. He has research interests throughout Greco-Roman antiquity, with a special focus on the social implications of Greek religion. His first book, Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly, appeared with Brill in 2011. Visit Denver's academia.edu page.

Todor Petev has been the Director of the US Office of the American Research Center in Sofia since the fall of 2010. He has an MA in art history from Tufts University and is about to defend his PhD dissertation at Princeton University. He specializes in the history of book illustration in the Late Middle Ages and the Renaissance. He has taught art history at Pratt Institute of Art and Seton Hall University. He has worked as a researcher at the Department of European Painting of the Metropolitan Museum in New York and at the Department of Rare Books at the Princeton University Library.

Emil Nankov has been the Archaeology Program Officer of the American Research Center in Sofia since August of 2009. He has an MA in classical archaeology from Sofia University and a PhD in art history and archaeology from Cornell University. His main scholarly interests focus on the archaeology of urbanization in the Hellenistic period. He has published on the archaeology and history of Ancient Thrace. Visit Emil's academia.edu page.

Anton Kazakov has been the building manager of the American Research Center in Sofia since the beginning of 2008. His work at the center is related to the maintenance of the building, local book-keeping and dealing with government organizations and local agencies. Another important task is to assist the visiting students with the necessary documentation during their stay.

Boyana Boyanova has been a cataloguing library specialist of the American Research Center in Sofia since the fall of 2010. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from Sofia University and is about to defend her Master’s degree in Work and Organizational Psychology at Sofia University. Her work is to maintain the library of ARCS and to keep the information in the website of the center up to date.

Elitsa Popova has been a cataloguing library specialist of the American Research Center in Sofia since the fall of 2010. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Library and Information Sciences from Sofia University and is about to defend her Master’s degree in Translator-editor with English at Sofia University. Her work is to maintain the library of ARCS and to keep the information in the website of the center up to date.

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