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Contributors
Katerina Gadjeva, katigad@yahoo.com
PhD in art history granted by the National Academy of Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria. Gadjeva studies the history
and theory of photography, particularly the concept of “visual propaganda” and the role of photography
in Socialist ideology in the USSR and Bulgaria. In 2012, with the support of the Bulgarian Ministry of
Education and Science, she published a monograph on the subject entitled Between Desire and Reality:
Photographic Illustrations in Bulgarian Periodicals 1948-1956. She is an assistant professor in the Institute
of Art Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Science, Sofia, and a lecturer in the New Bulgarian University and
St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia.
Anssi Halmesvirta, anssi.halmesvirta@jyu.fi
DPhil (Sussex, 1990), professor of general history, Jean Monnet Teacher at the Department of History
and Ethnology of the University of Jyvaskyla. Halmesvirta’s research fields include the history of ideas,
the history of political thought, the history of sports and medicine. His primary research projects are
The British Image of the Finns c. 1760-1918 (1990-1996); Survival of Ethnic Minorities in Romanian
Banat and Slovakia (fieldwork 1998-2002); Kédärs Hungary—Kekkonen’ Finland, Two Political Cultures
in the Shadow of Soviet Union (2000-2004); Cultic Revelations: Personality Cults and Cultic Phenomena
c. 1830-1990 (2003-2007); The History of Public Health in Finland (2006-2009); In Combat Against
‘National Degeneration’: Sports and Medicine in Finland (2011-2013); Science and Arts in the Service of
Nation-Building in Hungary and Finland, c. 1830-1914 (2014-2017); The Narrow Path to Freedom: Istvan
Bibos Public Moralism (biography, 2016). Halmesvirta has published thirteen monographs and dozens of
articles dealing with the abovementioned projects.
Petko Hristov, hristov_p@yahoo.com
PhD in Ethnology, associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research with
Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Over the past few years, Hristov’s main
scholarly interests involve studying labour migrations in the Balkan region; the construction of social
networks among transborder migrants; family and kinship; the construction of identity with the help of
culture and traditional religiousness; political anthropology. He is author of the book Community and
Celebrations. The Sluzba, Slava, Sabor and Kourban in South Slavic Villages in the First Half of 20 Century
(Sofia: Ethnographic Institute with Museum, 2004) and earned an award for best academic achievement
in Humanities from the Union of Bulgarian Scientists in 2007. He is the editor of the collections Migration
and Identity: Historical, Cultural and Linguistic Dimensions of Mobility in the Balkans (Sofia: Paradigma,
2012), and Balkan Migration Culture: Historical and Contemporary Cases form Bulgaria and Macedonia
(Sofia: Ethnographic Institute with Museum, 2010), he coedited the books Kurban in the Balkans (with
Biljana Sikimi¢, Belgrade: Institute for Balkan Studies, 2007), Labour Migrations in the Balkans (with
Biljana Sikimi¢ and Biljana Golubovi¢, Miinchen-Berlin: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2012) and Contextualizing
Changes: Migration, Shifting Borders and New Identities in Eastern Europe (with Anelia Kassabova, Evgenia
Troeva and Dagnostaw Demski, Sofia: Paradigma, 2015). Hristov has published over 100 articles in
a number of international journals and collections in renowned scholarly series.
Ágota Lídia Ispän, ispan18@yahoo.com
PhD, research fellow at Research Centre for the Humanities, Institute of Ethnology, Hungarian Academy
of Sciences; PhD in historical science (Social and Economic History) at "Eötvös Loránd" University
(2015). The title of Ispan’s PhD dissertation is A város vidéke. A falusi lakosság életmódváltása 1945 után
az urbanizaciö hatdsdra (‘The Countryside of the Town. Lifestyle Change of the Rural Society After 1945
Under the Influence of Urbanization’). Ispan’s research interests focus on the lifestyle changes in the
framework of socialist modernization, the socialist city (Leninvaros), history of everyday life, and oral
history.
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