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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. 627
