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Contributors
Ivaylo Markov, ivaylo.markov@iefem.bas.bg
PhD, assistant professor at the Department of Historical Ethnology at the Institute of Ethnology and
Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Markov’s major
research interests are transnational mobility and socio-cultural transformations, communities and
identities in southeast Europe, and cultural heritage and local development in border regions.
Georgeta Nazarska, georgeta.nazarska@gmail.com
PhD, historian, full professor of social and cultural history at the State University of Library Studies and
Information Technologies, Sofia. Nazarska’s research interests are in the field of social history, the sociology
of religion, gender and women’s history, and ethnic and religious minorities. Publications include The
Bulgarian State and its Minorities, 1879-1885 (1999); The University Education and Bulgarian Women,
1879-1944 (2003); History of Religious Denominations in Bulgaria (2009); Minority Cultural Heritage in
Bulgaria: Preservation, Conservation and Socialization (2014).
Valentina Nedelcheva, valentinannedelcheva@gmail.com
PhD candidate (2013-2016) in the Department of Ethnology (Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”).
Nedelchevas dissertation project combines minority and border aspects, concentrating on the case study
of the Bulgarian minority living in the Bulgarian-Serbian border region. Additionally, she has conducted
ethnographical research on various topics, among which are transborder relations, the economic transition
in post-Socialist Bulgaria, multi-ethnic communities and relations.
Tomislav Oroz, tomislav.oroz@gmail.com
PhD, assistant professor at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Zadar. Oroz
holds an MA degree in ethnology, cultural anthropology, and history from the University of Zagreb.
He obtained a PhD degree in ethnology and cultural anthropology at the same university. His teaching
activities include several courses both at the undergraduate and graduate level. His research interests lie in
memory studies, Mediterranean studies, island studies and Balkan studies.
Violeta Periklieva, vioperi@yahoo.com
PhD, assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at
the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Periklieva’s main fields of research are Balkan ethnology, anthropology
of religion, local religiosity, religious communities, identity, border studies, cultural heritage.
Elo-Hanna Seljamaa, elo-hanna.seljamaa@ut.ce
PhD, researcher at the Department of Estonian and Comparative Folklore at the University of Tartu.
Seljamaa’s PhD thesis from Ohio State University focused on nationalism, ethnicity and integration in
post-Soviet Estonia, and she continues to explore these topics. Her recent publications include Silence in
Cultural Practices, a special issue of Ethnologia Europaea coedited with Pihla Maria Siim.
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinkovié, annelia22@yahoo.com
PhD, research fellow at the Institute for Balkan Studies in Belgrade, Serbia. She has a BA in Romanian
language and literature and a PhD in folklore. Sorescu-Marinkoviés areas of interest are the folklore,
language, and identity of Romanian-speaking communities in the Balkans; migrations; media studies; the
communist period in central and eastern Europe. She is the author of the monograph Romänii din Timoc
astäzi. Fiinte mitologice (“The Vlachs of Eastern Serbia Today. Mythological Beings’, 2012), coauthored the
historical album Romänii de längä noi ("Ihe Romanians Near Us, 2013), and has published more than
50 academic papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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