Diana Mishkova (Senior Fellow)

A historian by training, Diana Mishkova teaches Modern and Contemporary Balkan History at the University of Sofia. She has published extensively on comparative nineteenth-century Balkan history, history of nationalism and ethnic relations, modernization of Balkan societies in 19th – 20th centuries, history of modern political ideas.

She has been a visiting professor in a number of universities in Europe and the US. Has received scholarships at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy; the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; Andrew F. Mellon fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin and the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna; senior fellow and convener for the Sofia Academic Nexus research project. Academic Director of the Balkan Summer University, Plovdiv (1998-2000); member of the Board of Eminent Scholars, Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece. She has taught graduate courses at various universities in the Balkans such as the University of Athens, Sabanci University (Istanbul), University of Crete.