Prof. Diana Mishkova

CURRICULUM VITAE
Diana M. Mishkova, Professor of History, PhD

PERSONAL DATA:

Born: 26 July 1958, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Nationality: Bulgarian
Correspondence address: 7, Stefan Karadja Str., vh.3, 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria; 
Tel. (+359) 2 980 37 04; Fax: (+359) 2 980 36 62; 
e-mail: mishkova@cas.bg

SECONDARY EDUCATION:
1973-1977: English Language Secondary School, Plovdiv, Bulgaria

UNIVERSITY DEGREES:

1977-1982: Faculty of History, Sofia University (MA thesis: "Epigraphic monuments of Dacia Romana")
1985-1988: Ph.D. research and award, Sofia University (PhD thesis: "Greece in the British Balkan Policy in the Nineteenth Century")
2000: Habilitation: Domestication of Freedom. Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century.

SCHOLARSHIPS:

2008-2010: Senior fellow and Convener of the research project Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity and Identity, 1900-1945, in East-Central, Southeastern and Northern Europe of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria.
2004-2006: Senior fellow and Convener of the research project We, the People. Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the ‘Europe of Small Nations' of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia.
2005: Research fellow in the international project "Multiple Antiquities-Multiple Modernities: Antiques and their Entangled Histories in Nineteenth-Century Europe", Collegium Budapest, Hungary.
2000-2003: Senior fellow and Convener of the Sofia Academic Nexus research project "How to think about the Balkans: culture, region, identities" of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Bulgaria.
1999-2000: Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria.
1998-1999: Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
1994: Fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., USA.
1991: Research scholarship at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.

UNIVERSITY POSITIONS:

2000-2005: Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe, Department of Southeast-European History (Faculty of History), Sofia University (since 2005 on a free contract basis)
Courses in the Faculty of History: "Modernization of Southeastern Europe in 19th-20th centuries" - MA programme "The European Southeast"); "National and Regional Identities in the Balkans" - MA programme "Ethnicity and National Relations in Southeastern Europe (in English) (brief descriptions accessible at http://www.clio.uni-sofia.bg/EN/master.html). Courses in Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe outside the Faculty of History of Sofia University (2000-present): in International Relations Dept., Faculty of Law; Balkan Studies Dept., Faculty of Slavic Philology.
1988-2000: Senior Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe, Department of Southeast-European History (Faculty of History), Sofia University
2005-2006: Guest-professor at the Centre for Contemporary History, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
1999: Lecturer in Balkan history for the MA program in South East European Studies, University of Athens, Greece.
1998: Guest-professor at the Department of History and Archaeology, University of Crete, Greece.
1991-1997: Lecturer for the Joint Bulgarian-American Program on Eastern Europe, Sofia University.
1991 and 1997: Guest-researcher and lecturer at the Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden.
1994: Lecturer in Modern Balkan History in George Washington University, Washington, D.C. and the Pittsburgh University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
1993-1994: Visiting professor at the Centre for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
1992-1993: Lecturer in Balkan history for the History MA Program at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
1990: Visiting lecturer in Modern Balkan history at Institute of New Greek and Balkanistic Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Institute of Political Sciences, University of Aarhus, Denmark.

OTHER POSITIONS / MEMBERSHIPS:

2000- present: Director and Academic Associate of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia
1998-2000: Academic Director of the Balkan Summer University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria.
Since 2003: Member of the Board of Eminent Scholars, Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Since 2005: Member of the Editorial Board of Currents of History (Journal of the Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade, Serbia).
Since 2007: Member of the Scientific Committee of the Institute for Advanced Studies Paris Ile-de-France
Since 2007: Member of the Jury of the Paul Celan Fellowship programme of the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria.
2007- 2010: Member of Social Sciences and Humanities Panel (SH6) of the European Research Council.
Since 2009: Member of the editorial board of the European Conceptual History book series
Since 2010: Member of the International Advisory Board of the Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (CHCI).
Since 2010: Member of the Board of International Commission for the History and Theory of Historiography (ICHTH)

DIRECTION OF / PARTICIPATION IN TRANSNATIONAL (COMPARATIVE) RESEARCH:

Author, scientific coordinator or participant in over 12 international interdisciplinary projects in the field of comparative Southeast-European and European studies, among the most recent ones:

2000-2003: Co-author and Convener (with Dr. Alexander Kiossev) of the Sofia Academic NEXUS project "How to Think about the Balkans: Culture, Region, Identities" - a cross-national and crossdisciplinary project, supported by Volkswagen-Stiftung (Germany) and the European Cultural Foundation (Amsterdam), involving 6 senior and 22 junior scholars from 7 countries in East-Central Europe.

2000-2003: Supervisor and convener of the "Regional Identity Discourses in Central and Southeast Europe, 1775-1945" project of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia and the Prince Bernhard Foundation (The Netherlands) with 28 junior participants (docs and post-docs) from 15 East European countries.

2004-2005: Author and convener of the international research project "We, the People. Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the ‘Europe of Small Nations'", of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia (in partnership with Collegium Budapest, Hungary), with 15 participants, doctoral and junior post-doctoral students, from Central and Southeastern Europe.

2006-2008: Participant in Team 3 ("National Histories and its Interrelation with regional, European and World Histories") of the research network programme Representations of the Past: the Writing of National Histories in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Europe (NHIST), of the European Science Foundation.

2008-2010 - Author and convener of the international research project "Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Modernity and Identity, 1900-1945, in East-Central, Southeast and Northern Europe", of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia with 3 senior participants and junior scholars (docs and post-docs) enrolled on an annual-fellowship basis, from Central, Southeastern and Northern Europe.

Since 2008 - Participant in the European Conceptual History Project of the University of Oxford, University of Helsinki and the EVROPAEVM programme.

2009-2014 - Senior participant in the ‘Balkan Histories: Shared, Connected, Entangled' project (ERC Advanced Grants Programme: FP7/2007-2013, ERC grant agreement no 230177).

Participation with papers in many international conferences, workshops and colloquia; Organizer of the Panel "Construction and Deconstruction of the National State: The Case of the Balkans" at the 20th International Congress of Historical Studies in Sydney, Australia (3-9 July 2005).

MAJOR RESEARCH INTERESTS AND FIELDS OF PUBLICATION:

- modern and contemporary history of Southeastern Europe,
- history of European nationalism,
- comparative modernization of Southeast-European societies and the European peripheries 19th - 20th centuries,
- history of modern political ideas,
- European intellectual history,
- historiography and theory of history,
- methodology of comparative (historical) research.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
(reviews, conference papers, newspaper articles and interviews are not included)

Books and edited volumes:

Domestication of Freedom. Modernity-Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century, Sofia: Paradigma, 2001 (in Bulgarian)

The Balkan Nineteenth Century. Other Readings (ed.), Sofia: Centre for Advanced Study Sofia & RIVA Publishers, 2006 (in Bulgarian) (including editorial chapter).

We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe (ed.), Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2009 (including editorial chapter).

Anti-Modernism: Radical Revisions of Collective Identity (ed. with Marius Turda) vol. 4 of the series Discourses of Collective Identity in Central and Southeast Europe (1789-1945). Texts and Commentaries. 4 vols., (forthcoming Central European University Press, 2011).

Regimes of Historicity and Discourses of Identity in South-Eastern, East Central and Northern Europe, 1900-1945 (ed.), forthcoming London and New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012.

Book chapters (in languages other than Bulgarian):

"Friends Turned Foes: Bulgarian National Attitudes to Neighbours", in Pride and Prejudice: National Stereotypes in 19th and 20th Century Europe East to West (CEU History Department, Working Paper Series 2), Budapest, 1995, 163-186.

"Europäische Ideen und Institutionen im politischer System Bulgariens, 1878-1914", in: Die Bulgaren und Europa von der nationalen Wiedergeburt bis zur Gegenwart (H. Heppner, R. Preshlenova, Hg.), Sofia: Akademieverlag „Prof. Marin Drinov", 1999, 64-94.

"Die Konstruktion nationaler Identität in Bulgarien (1878 - 1912)", in: H.-L. Kieser, S. Naef, C. Windler (Hg.), Konstruktion nationaler Identität und der Umgang mit Geschichte, thematisches Heft von Asien, Afrika, Lateinamerika. Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift, Berlin, 2001.

"The Nation as Zadruga: Re-mapping Nation-Building in Nineteenth-Century Southeast Europe", in: M. Dogo and G. Franzinetti (eds.), Disrupting and Reshaping: Early Stages of Nation-Building in the Balkans, Ravenna: Longo Editore, 2001, 102-116.

"The Uses of Tradition and National Identity in the Balkans", in: M. Todorova (ed.), Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory, London: Hurst, 2004, 269-293.

"The Interesting Anomaly of Balkan Liberalism", in: Ivan Denes (ed.), Liberty and the Search for Identity. Imperial Heritages and Liberal Nationalisms in a Comparative Perspective, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2006, 399-456. Romanian translation: "Interesanta anomalie a liberalismul balcanic", in V. Rizescu (coord.), Ideologii românești și est-europene. București: Cuvântul, 2008, 129-210.

"Introduction: Towards a Framework for Studying the Politics of National Peculiarity in the 19th Century," in Diana Mishkova (ed.), We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe, Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2009. Editorial chapter, pp. 1-43.

"Separation through Entanglement: Debates on Antiquities, Ethnogenesis and National Identity in Nineteenth-Century Bulgaria in Comparative Perspective", in M. Werner and G. Klaniczay (eds.), Multiple Antiquities and Multiple Modernities in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Campus Verlag and University of Chicago Press, 2011.

"Regional History as a ‘Challenge' to the National Frameworks of Historiography. The Case of Central, Southeastern, and Northern Europe" (in co-authorship with Bo Stråth and Balazs Trencsenyi), in: Matthias Middell, Lluis Roura y Aulinas (eds.), World, Global and European Histories as Challenges to National Representations of the Past (Volume 4 of the book series 'Writing the Nation: National Historiographies and the Making of Nation States in Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Europe') London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 (110 pp).

"Legacies of Transnationalism: a Regionalist Perspective", in: Trans-national perspectives on nationalism - methodological approaches and case studies (Ed. U. Altermatt, T. Marinov, F. Metzger, D. Mishkova, S. Weichlein) Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag, 2011 (forthcoming).

"On the Space-Time Constitution of Southeastern Europe", in: Sabine Rutar (ed.)
Southeast Europe - Comparison, Entanglement, Transfer. Contributions to European Social History of the 19th and 20th Centuries. Berlin et al.: LIT Verlag, 2011 (forthcoming)

Selected articles (published in refereed journals or series, in languages other than Bulgarian):

"The Bulgarian Experience in Political Westernization", Bulgarian Quarterly, I: 3, Sofia, 1991, 22-33.

"Literacy and Nation-building in Bulgaria 1878-1912", East European Quarterly (Boulder: University of Colorado), 29:1, 1994, 63-93.

"Modernization and Political Elites in the Balkans before the First World War", Eastern European Politics and Societies, (American Council of Learned Societies: University of California Press), 9:1, 1995, 63-89; also published as "Modernization and Political Elites in the Balkans, 1878-1914" in Centre for Austrian Studies Working Paper Series (94-1), Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 1-24.

"The Turkish Minority in Bulgaria: Solution to an Ethnic Conflict?", Department of East European Studies Working Papers 40, University of Uppsala, Uppsala, June 1998.

"Le radicalisme serbe au XIXe siècle: quelques pages de l'histoire du populisme balkanique", Etudes balkaniques (Sofia: Institute for Balkan Studies), 1-2/1999, 170-195. Also published in Serbian in Tokovi istorije (Institute for Recent History, Belgrade), 1-4, 1999, 36-68.

"Europe in the Nineteenth-Century Balkans: A Case Study in the Cultural Transfer of Concepts", Revue des Etudes Sud-Est Européennes (Bucharest: Editura Academiei Române), XLII:1-4, 2004, 183-200.

"In Search of Balkan Occidentalism", Tokovi istorije (Institute for Recent History, Belgrade), 1-2/2006, 29-62.

"The Normative and the Romantic: Evolutionism, Modernity and the National Self in the Balkan Constructions of Europe", Etudes balkaniques (Sofia: Institute for Balkan Studies), 3-4/2006, 179-188.

"Disciplinarity, Interdisciplinarity, Scientific Communities, or on the (Un)Stable Boundaries of Scientific Knowledge", in Sociology and Interdisciplinarity (special issue of Sociological Problems, Sofia: Institute of Sociology), 39: 1-2, 2007, 33-43.

"Symbolic Geographies and Visions of Identity: A Balkan Perspective", European Journal of Social Theory, SAGE, 11(2), 2008, 237-256.

"Regional, Not National? Transnational Historiography in the Long-term Perspective of Southeast-European Historiographic Discourses", European Studies, VII, 2008, University of Tokyo: DESK, 137-144.

"What Is in Balkan History? Spaces and Scales in the Tradition of Southeast-European Studies", Southeastern Europe (Brill), 34/1, 2010, 55-86.

"Scale and Cognition in Historical Constructions of Space", Historein 10, 2010, 94-105.

"The Balkans as an idée-force: Scholarly Projections of the Balkan Cultural Area", Civilisations 60/2 (forthcoming autumn 2011).