ARCS welcomes 8 Fellows on September 1, 2013. Four of the fellows will hold a 9-month fellowship (Sept. 2013 - May 2014); three will hold 3-month fellowships (Sept. - Nov. 2013); one fellow will hold a joint Fulbright/ARCS award.  

Pre-doctoral ARCS Fellows:

Anna Adashinskaya, Central European University, Serbian and Bulgarian Medieval Ktetorship (13th -14th Centuries): two ways of adapting the Byzantine model, 9 month fellowship; Tera Lee Hedrick, Northwestern University, The Power of Objects: Ars Sacra and the negotiation of the sacred in Late Byzantium, 9 month fellowship; Miloš Jovanović, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Ordering urban life in Belgrade and Sofia during the long 19th century, 3 month fellowship; Cynthia Ann Lintz, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, The negotiation of ‘self’ and ‘other’ along the Bulgarian-Macedonian border, 3 month fellowship; Martin Marinos, University of Pittsburgh, Post-Communist media and civil society in Bulgaria, 9 month fellowship; Angela Rodel, UCLA, The Mystery of Bulgarian Voices: the history and development of Bulgarian folk singing, 3 month fellowship; James Adam Rodriguez, Yale University, Bilateral Icons in Byzantium, 9 month fellowship.

Secil Uluisik, University of Arizona, Merchant networks and Chorbacis in Plovdiv during the Tanzimat: the case of the Gumushgerdan family, 3 month fellowship, will join us in February 2014.

Joint Fulbright/ARCS Fellow (Sept. 2013 – June 2014)

Duncan Ranslem, University of Chicago, East of EDEN: Bulgarian Tourism and European Integration