Name

Institution

Interest

Topic

ARCS Pre-doctoral Fellows

Agata

Chmiel

University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana

Ottoman History

The Geography of Conversion: Religious Changes in the Ottoman Balkans

Stanimir Panayotov

Central European University

History

Gender Studies

Disembodiment in Neoplatonism and New Realism

John Gorczyk

Cornell University

Anthropology

Beastly spaces: humans, animals, and the creation of place in Neolithic Bulgaria

Jelena Radovanović

Princeton University

Near Eastern Studies

Urban Transformation and Migration in 19th-Century Niš

ARCS Residential SE European Fellows

Hristijan Talevski

PhD Student at the University Ss. Cyril and Methodius – Skopje

Byzantine Studies

The impact of the defensive system development on the early Byzantine settlement distribution and their internal architectural and infrastructural organization – A comparative analysis

Lora Nenkovska

National Museum of History

History, Byzantine Art

Representations of the Diabolical in Post-Byzantine Art during 17th-19th centuries

Iskra Dobreva

Sofia University

Balkans and Judaism

Judeo-Spanish Texts in the Cyrillic Script from the Bulgarian

Central State Archive

Giannakis Smilanis

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens (Greece)

Political Science

A 'Shared Tradition': The Case of Bulgaria and FYROM