Aims
- Development of new interdisciplinary trend in the Bulgarian studies to include research in academic fields such as history, literary theory, linguistics, folklore, religion, philosophy, geography etc.
- Exploration, research, maintenance and conservation of the Bulgarian cultural and historic heritage
- Development of archaeometry and marine archeology
Team
Associate professor Todor Popnedelev, Faculty of History, PhD, Head of Program,
Senior assistant professor Svetoslav Zhivkov, PhD, Program Coordinator, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Senior assistant professor Hristo Berov, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Professor Hristo Matanov, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Associate professor Michail Gruev, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Associate professor Mira Markova, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Associate professor Veselin Yanchev, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Senior assistant professor Vladimir Stanev, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Senior assistant professor Radoslav Spassov, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Senior assistant professor Roumiana Marinova-Hristidi, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Zornitsa Velinova-Trencheva, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Ivaylo Nachev, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Boyan Gyuzelev, PhD, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Senior assistant professor Ivan Patev, Faculty of History, Sofia University
Senior assistant professor Dimitar Grigoriov, Faculty of History, Sofia University,
Martin Valkov, PhD student, Faculty of History, Sofia University
Reverent Dimitar Mihaylov
Robert Levi,
Research projects under implementation in 2016
- International association for Bulgarian studies: Project leader, Associate professor Todor Popnedelev
- Electronic data-base for centers in Bulgarian studies: Project leader, Professor Vesselin Yanchev
- Christian inheritance in the Middle Rhodope Mountains during late 19th and early 20th c: Project leader Dr. Petar Shukerov
- Western expansion on the Balkans: Military Orders and Italian Republics, XII-XIV c.: Project leader, Associate professor Alexander Nikolov
- Bulgarian Muslims and the Challenges of the Forced Name-Change Process, 1972-1974: Project leader, Professor Hristo Matanov
- Dubrovnik and Bulgaria, XII-XV c.: Project leader, Professor Vassil Giuzelev
- State and Economics in the Balkans, 1856-1914: Project leader Dr. Hristo Berov
- Modernization and dominant European tendencies in pre-World War 2 Sofia: factories, leading figures and cultural heritage: Project leader, Associate professor Mira Markova
Completed projects
- Bulgarian Totalitarian Regime and the Youth Subcultures: Project leader, Associate professor Mihail Gruev
- Documentary photo-exhibition and brochure-catalogue devoted to the Italian sculpture master Arnoldo Zocchi and his activity in Bulgaria to commemorate the one-hundred and thirty fifth anniversary of the end of the Russian-Turkish War of 1878 and the Liberation of Bulgaria from the Ottoman Domination
- Research on the attitudes and affiliations of the population with Bulgarian Muslim origin who viewed positively the process of the restoration of their ethnicity, during 1972-74
- The Great War, 1914-1918: personal stories and global history
Scientific events in 2016
Days of Humanities, May 2016
Days of Humanities, November 2016
Research trip related to topic Bulgarian Muslims and the Challenges of the Forced Name-Change Process, 1972-1974, April 2016
Round-table: Bulgarian Muslims and the Challenges of the Forced Name-Change Process, 1972-1974:, May 2016
Key Publications
- Proceedings of the Third International Congress for Bulgarian Studies, Sofia University Press, 2015
- Society and Culture: Anthropology, Sociology, Cultural Studies
- Society and Culture. The Bulgarian Diaspore
- Society and Culture: Comparative Ethnology
- Society and Culture: Bulgarian Ethnology
- Round-table: The Golden Age of Tsar Simeon the Great: Politics, Religion, Culture
- Round- table: Digitization
- Bulgarian language: Modern Bulgarian, Phonetics and Grammar
- Bulgarian language: Bulgarian Studies Abroad. Teaching in Bulgarian
- Bulgarian language: Modern Bulgarian, Lexicology and Lexicography
- The Earth Faces the Sky: People and Orthodox Temples in Mid Rhodope Mountains (Iv. Patev, P. Shukerov, D. Varabanov), Sofia, Sofia University Press, 2015
- The Bulgarian Muslim and the Challenges of the Forced Name Change, 1972-1974”, Part I (Hr. Matanov, R. Marinova_Hristidi) Sofia, Sofia University Press, 2014
- St. Dimitrius from Bessarabia: the Saint of Two Peoples (R. Spassov, S. Hinkovski), Sofia, Sofia University Press, 2014
- Petar Rogalski, “ Semantics and metaphysics in Gilbert of Poitiers”, Sofi_R Publishers, 2011
- Martin Ivanov - “Network Capitalism: the Bulgarian Commercial Bank Co. Ltd. 1890 - 1914” (Published in Bulgarian) Gutenberg Publishing House, 2010
- Nikola Lambov - “Europe in the Orient: Political and Cultural Interaction in the Middle East During the Crusades” (Published in Bulgarian), AZ Press Publishers, 2010
- Yordan Baev - “The European Security System and the Balkans During the Cold War Years” (Published in Bulgarian), Damian Yakov Publishers, 2010
- Borislav Gavrilov - “Dividing Europe: Crisis, Conflicts and Diplomacy during the Old Regime” (Published in Bulgarian), KOTA Publishers, 2010
Along with these books Sofia University Center for Excellence in the Humanities “Alma Mater” has published other monographic books and collections to include the following titles”
- K. Grozev and D. Koleva (eds.) History, Mythology and Politics (in Bulgarian), Sofia University Press, 2010, available online at http://lib.sudigital.org/record/18827/files/SUDGTL-BOOK-2011-094.pdf http://lib.sudigital.org/record/18827/files/SUDGTL-BOOK-2011-094.pdf
- Iskra Baeva (ed.) Russia, Europe and the World: Collection of articles presented at the International Conference in Sofia, 28-29 Sept. 2009, (in Bulgarian), Sofia University Press, 2012
- K. Grozev and R. Marinova-Hristidi (eds.) The Jews in Eastern Europe and the USSR during the Second World War and the Cold War, 1939-1989 (in Bulgarian), Sofia University Press, 2013, available online at http://dialogueeurope.org/bg_BG/evreite-v-iztochna-evropa-i-svetskiya-syuz-po-vreme-na-vtorata-svetovna-vojna-i-studenata-vojna-1939-1989/