ARCS announces 2014-15 Fellows

American Research Center in Sofia Fellowships, 2014-15

 

2014-15 ARCS Postdoctoral Fellow

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

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

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

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

Victor Petrov

Columbia University

History

Modernity in a National Key: Bulgarian Socialist Modernization at Home and Abroad 1967-1989

9-month

Fraser Reed

U. Edinburgh

Archaeology

The Role of the Urbes Thraciae, from Diocletian to Maurice (AD 284-602)

3-month Fall

Mikhail Rekun

Northeastern U.

History

Empire Unguided: Public Opinion and Imperial Foreign Policy in Balkans, 1876-1886

3-month Fall

Vladimir Troyanski

Stanford U.

History

Integration and Resistance: North Caucasus Refugees in the Ottoman Balkans, 1860-1878

3-month Spring

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

Konstantin Golev

Sofia University

History

Echoes of the War: Oral History from Bulgarian WWII Veterans

3-month Fall

Emanuela Marin

West University of Timisoara

History

Islam in Communist Romania and Bulgaria. A Comparative Perspective

3-month Fall

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

Atanaska Stancheva

Inst. Ethnology and Folklore Studies, BAS

Ethnology

 

Ecological Movements in Post-socialist Bulgaria. Cultural Practices and Civil Activity

3-month Fall

 

 

2014 FADS – Bulgarian Scholars Program

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

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

Denitsa Krasteva

Sofia University

History

The cult of the Muslim saint Sari Saltuk in the Ottoman empire

ARIT – summer 2014

Yana Mutafchieva

National Inst. Archaeology, BAS

Archaeology

Bronze Vessels from Thrace, 5th-4th c. BC

ASCSA – Fall 2014

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