ARCS announces 2014-15 Fellows
American Research Center in Sofia Fellowships, 2014-15
2014-15 ARCS Postdoctoral Fellow
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Pavel Murdzhev |
Santa Fe College (Gainesville, FL) |
Byzantine Studies |
The Plow in Byzantine Agriculture: Institutional Failure or Economic Sagacity? |
6-month |
2014-15 ARCS Pre-doctoral Fellows
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Francesco La Rocca |
Central European University |
History |
Bards, Faith and Power: How National Epics, Religions and Nation-Building Process Joined in Interwar Yugoslavia and Albania |
3-month Fall |
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Phillip McMath |
U. Edinburgh |
Archaeology |
Byzantine Health, Diet, and Disease from the 5th-14th centuries AD on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast |
3-month Spring |
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Dragos Nastasoiu |
Central European University |
Medieval Studies |
"Between East and West": The Iconography of Donors in Orthodox Mural Painting of Southern Transylvania during the Fifteenth Century |
9-month |
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Victor Petrov |
Columbia University |
History |
Modernity in a National Key: Bulgarian Socialist Modernization at Home and Abroad 1967-1989 |
9-month |
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Fraser Reed |
U. Edinburgh |
Archaeology |
The Role of the Urbes Thraciae, from Diocletian to Maurice (AD 284-602) |
3-month Fall |
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Mikhail Rekun |
Northeastern U. |
History |
Empire Unguided: Public Opinion and Imperial Foreign Policy in Balkans, 1876-1886 |
3-month Fall |
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Vladimir Troyanski |
Stanford U. |
History |
Integration and Resistance: North Caucasus Refugees in the Ottoman Balkans, 1860-1878 |
3-month Spring |
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Eli Weaverdyck |
UC Berkeley |
Archaeology |
Isolation or Integration? A spatial-analytic approach to the local impact of the Roman army on the northern frontier |
9-month |
Fall 2014 ARCS Residential SE European Fellows
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Konstantin Golev |
Sofia University |
History |
Echoes of the War: Oral History from Bulgarian WWII Veterans |
3-month Fall |
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Emanuela Marin |
West University of Timisoara |
History |
Islam in Communist Romania and Bulgaria. A Comparative Perspective |
3-month Fall |
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Ivelina Masheva |
Sofia University |
History |
From Islamic to Western Commercial Law. Changing Legal Environment and Christian Merchants in Ottoman Bulgaria (1840s-1870s) |
3-month Fall |
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Atanaska Stancheva |
Inst. Ethnology and Folklore Studies, BAS |
Ethnology
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Ecological Movements in Post-socialist Bulgaria. Cultural Practices and Civil Activity |
3-month Fall |
2014 FADS – Bulgarian Scholars Program
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Stella Behar |
Sofia University |
Archaeology |
Contact between Greek Colonies on the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast and the East Mediterranean, 2nd-1st c. BC |
ASCSA – Summer 2014 |
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Hristo Hristozov |
Sofia University |
History |
Environmental impact of population dynamics in Early Modern Mountains: a case study of the Northern Rhodope Mountains during the 16th century |
ARIT – Summer 2014 |
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Denitsa Krasteva |
Sofia University |
History |
The cult of the Muslim saint Sari Saltuk in the Ottoman empire |
ARIT – summer 2014 |
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Yana Mutafchieva |
National Inst. Archaeology, BAS |
Archaeology |
Bronze Vessels from Thrace, 5th-4th c. BC |
ASCSA – Fall 2014 |
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Valentin Vasilev |
Sofia University |
Archaeology |
Early Iron Metallurgy on the Territory of the Eastern Balkans in the context of the Eastern Mediterranean |
ASCSA – Summer 2014 |

