Anna Alexieva works as senior assistant professor at the Institute for Literature, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She defended successfully PhD thesis, dedicated to the poetic marginalia of the mid XIX c. The academic interests of her are focused on Bulgarian literature from XIX c., transmission mechanisms of the culture, literary canon - building and functions, problems of group identity, cultural intimacy, ideological forging of the narratives about literary history. Works of her are published in national and international editions - collections of papers, academic periodicals etc. She is author of a monograph research, entitled "Bulgarian poetry from 40-ties and 50-ties of XIX c." Roles of the subject" (2012). She is member of the Bulgarian Society for XIX c. Studies and of Academic Circle for Comparative Literary Studies. A. Alexieva is also coordinator of  "Literary Thought" periodical. She was awarded with the Young Researcher of the Year of Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Prize in the field "Cultural-Historical Heritage and National Identity Studies".

 

Anna Franagoudaki: Sociologist of Education, Emerita Professor of the University of Athens. Her main research fields and publications are on social inequality and ethnic discrimination in education, the Greek diglossia, analysis of school textbooks, ethnocentrism in education. She has directed many research projects on social inequalities in education, ethnocentrism and racism in education, analysis of school textbooks.  Since 1997, she has co-directed a project funded by EU Social Fund on the educational reform of the Muslim Minority population in the province of Thrace.

 

Thalia Dragonas is a Professor of Social Psychology at the University of Athens.Her research activity lies in the area of identities and the articulation of the social with the psychological. She has participated in and directed many Greek and international projects and has worked extensively for the educational reform of the Muslim Minority in Western Thrace. Specific areas of research interests are: psychosocial identity and intergroup relations, intercultural education and ethnocentrism in the educational system, prevention and promotion of early psychosocial health, transition to parenthood, construction of fatherhood and masculinity as well as research methodological issues such as the articulation of qualitative and quantitative techniques.  She has published extensively on the above  subjects.

 

Danilo Šarenac is a research fellow at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade. He took his BA degree from the Faculty of Philosophy, History Department in 2006. He successfully completed his MA education at Central European University, Budapest at History Department in 2007. He has a PhD degree from Faculty of Philosophy, History Department since 2011. His researches focus on social and cultural impacts of the First World War in the Southeastern and Central Europe, History of Technology and Culture of memory. Some of his recent publications are: Two Peaces of Memory: Partisan Journals as the Sources for the History of the Second World War, (coauthor wiht Ivana Pantelić), Belgrade 2013; and Cannon, soldier, memory. Great War and Serbia 1914-2009, Belgrade 2014.

 

Dimitar Atanassov works as senior assistant professor at the Institute for Ethnology and Folklore Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. He defended successfully PhD thesis, dedicated to the history and ideology of so called Kosovo Myth. The academic interests of him are focused on the following fields: history of Balkans, anthropology of history, medieval history, visual history, history of ideas and notions, public images of history, popular culture and historical narrative, historiography analysis, uses and abuses of the past, ideological construction of history narrative, „living archive“.

Works of him are published in national and international editions - collections of papers, academic periodicals etc., published in Bulgarian, English and Serbian language. The project experience of him includes also national and international projects participation. He is member of the Association of Byzantine and Medieval Studies in Bulgaria, Bulgarian Society for XIX c., Border Crossing Network and Center for Interdisciplinary History Studies. Dimitar Atanassov is part of international editorial boards of Rasinski Anali (Rasina Annals), Braničevski Glasnik (Branichevo Herald) and Zapisi. Godišnjak Istorijskog Arhiva u Požarevcu (Records. Annual of the History Archive of Pozharevac) academic periodicals.

He was awarded with research grants for long- and short-term research work in Belgrade (Serbia), Ioannina (Greece), Prishtina (Kosovo), Tirana (Albania) and Saint-Petersburg (Russian Federation). Dimitar Atanassov speaks Bulgarian, English, Serbian and Russian. He uses also Latin, Ancient Greek and Old Church Slavonic.

 

Emanuel Plopeanu was born in 1974, in Constanța, Romania. BA in History, at the ”Ovidius” University, Constanța (1998); Ph.D. in History, at the ”Alexandru I.Cuza” University, Iași, Romania (2006).

The main areas of research are: International Relations in South-East Europe, in the XX^th century, United States policy to the South-East Europe in the same period.

The doctoral thesis, with the title United States policy regarding Turkey between 1943 and 1952 was published, in Romanian language, in 2006, at the Institutul European Publishing House. Other books (all in Romanian): The XX^th century history:1939-1945. The Diplomacy of war, in 2011 (co-author); Romania – Turkey Republic. Diplomatic relations, vol. I, 1923 – 1938, 2011, (co-author); Readings and documents about Romanian Modern History,1774-1918, two volumes, 2009, (co-author); over fifty papers published in the scientific indexed journals and collective volumes; over twenty participations at the conferences organized in Romania, Moldavian Republic, Bulgaria, Turkey, Italy; research stays conducted in Turkey (2010).

In present, Dean of the Faculty of History and Political Science from “Ovidius” University, Constanța. Currently courses: History of the South-East Europe in the XX^th century, History of the Romanian in Modern Times (XIX^th) century, Political World History (1648-1918).

Genciana Abazi-Egro, is Associate Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at Centre for Albanian Studies, and senior lecture at Beder University (Tirana, Albania). Her publications include textual critical edition of the Nezim Berati’s (18^th cent.) AlbanianDivan (Tirana: Centre for Albanian Studies 2009) and textual critical edition of the Hasan Zyko Kamberi’s (18^th cent.) Poetry (Tirana: Centre for Albanian Studies, forthcoming).

Adriana Cupcea is a researcher in the Romanian Institute for Research on National Minorities. She completed her PhD in 2009 at Babeş-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania and her research focuses on the Balkan and Near East area and deals with questions like the construction of modern identities, the image of the Other, the relationship between self-identity and alterity, the relationship between history and anthropology. She is the co-author (with Călin Felezeu) of the book A comparative view of the Ottoman’s Image in the post-communist history textbooks in Romania and Bosnia Herzegovina( Presa Universitară Clujeană, Cluj-Napoca, 2013) and recently she published a considerable number of researches on the situation of the Turkish and Tatar communities in Dobruja (Romania).

 

Ledia Dushku under graduated at Tirana University in 1998. In 2010, she graduated M.A at Athens University, while in 2010 she won the degree “Doctor of Science in History” at Tirana University. 

In 2001 she began working as full-time researcher in Institute of History, at Academy of Sciences, Tirana. Today she works as researcher and professor of International Relations and Albanian history at Center for Albanian Studies. She has published the book, Kur historia ndau dy popuj fqinj. Shqipëria dhe Greqia 1912-1914, Kristalina KH, Tirana, 2012.

She has participated in many scientific activities and has published many articles in international scientific journals.

Same of them are:

“The delimitation of border and the Albanian-Greek relationship”, Istoriskoto nasledstvo: perspektiva ili hendikep, Skopje, 2011.

“La principat albanaise et l’attitude de la Grèce”, Studia Albanica, Nr. 2, Tirana: 2011.

“Austro-Hungarian stance on the issue of the Albanian-Greek border 1912-1913”, Shqipëria-Austria: Reflektim historiografik, Center for Albanian Studies & Albanian Institute for International Studies (AIIS), Botimet Albanologjike,  2013.

“Albania and Greece in course of the First Balkan War” në:  Journal of History, XLIX, Nr.1, Association of Historians of Republic of Macedonia (AHRM), Skopje, 2014. 

 

Antoanela Petkovska is a full professor at the Institute of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy – Skopje (UKIM). Her main field of interest are: sociology of culture, sociology of art, sociology of youth, sociology of Macedonian culture, European civilization, gender and society. She was a member of several scientific project:Macedonian Literature and Art in the XX-th Century, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts; Mapping of the Cultural Industries in the Republic of Macedonia, Ministry of Culture of RM and BC in Macedonia (2007 - 2008); Eeuropean Value Survey, International project (national project manager), financed by the Faculty of Philosophy and FIOM (2007-2009); Research of the European values of the citizens of the Republic of Macedonia" (2010 - 2013). Most important publications: 2009, “Essays on Sociology of Culture”, AZ-BUKI, Skopje; 1998,"Sociology", (co-author),  textbook, Studentski zbor, Skopje; 1997 "Sociology of the Macedonian Fine Arts (1945 - 1980)", Makedonska civilizacija, Skopj; 1995 "Macedonian Sociological Terms Dictionary", (co-author), Institut za sociologija - Filozofski fakultet and MANU, Skopje;1986 "Social Aspects of the Monumental Art in R. Macedonia After the Liberation",  Makedonska kniga, Skopje. Petkovska is former president of the Macedonian Sociological Association and an actual president of Macedonian Center for Culture and Arts as well as President of the Macedonian Section of Jeunesse Musicale Internationale.

 

Ramiza Smajic graduated at University of Sarajevo, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Oriental Studies, postgraduated at Department of History. She has been working at the Institute of History since 2000.

 

Sanja Arežina is the president of the Southeast European Society Development Institute. She holds a PhD from a Faculty of Political Sciences at the University of Belgrade with a thesis ‘Relations between PR China and Yugoslavia and Serbia from 1977 to 2009’ and has graduated from Chinese Academy of Governance in Beijing. Her primary research interests revolve around foreign policy and international relations, with a particular focus on PR China and European Union. She published one book and a number of scientific papers, conference papers, articles and book reviews.

 

Dritan Egro, is Associate Professor of Ottoman History at Center for Albanian Studies, Tirana/Albania and Senior lecturer at University of New York/Tirana. His publications include Historia dhe Ideologjia (History and Ideology in Albanian modern historiography) (Tirana, 2007) and Ligji osman ndër shqiptarët e Mesjetës së Vonë (The Ottoman Law among Albanians of the Late Middle Age) (Tirana, 2012).

 

Metin Ömer is a PhD student in the Department of History at Hacettepe University, Ankara. His research focuses on the history of the Turks and Tatars from Dobrudja and the Romanian-Turkish bilateral relations. Among other publications he is one of the editors of the collective volume of studies The Sea – Place of Memories and Geostrategical Developments (with Florin Anghel and Gabriel Stelian Manea; Cetatea de Scaun, Târgoviște, 2013).