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Contributors
Magdalena Sztandara, magdalena.sztandara@uj.edu.pl
PhD, anthropologist working at the Institute of Ethnology and Cultural Anthropology, Jagiellonian
University, Cracow. Sztandara deals with visual anthropology, photography, the anthropology of
performance, and performance ethnography. Her major research fields are performative practices and
activism of women in Serbia and in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She also conducts research about postwar
migrants in Serbia.
Evgenia Troeva, troeva@abv.bg
PhD, associate professor at the Department of Historical Ethnology at the Institute of Ethnology and
Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Troeva’s research is
focused on issues of religion, memory, identity, migration, and ethnicity. She has published two books
on the Muslim Bulgarians and a number of articles on the aspects of interethnic/interreligious relations,
cultural memory, and religious identity.
Lilia Uzlowa, usli@gmx.net or Uslowa.Lilia@gera.de
PhD, researching postcards and postcard archives since 1999. Uzlowa was born in 1958 and grew up in
Bulgaria, studied Bulgarian and English at Veliko Tarnovo University. In 1986, she moved to Germany to
promote and teach Bulgarian as a foreign language. Now she works as a lecturer and reviewer. Her main
subjects include identity, dynamics of identity, the culture of memory, socialism (GDR, Bulgaria), and
travel. Her doctoral thesis is entitled Ethnological Aspects of Leisure and Tourism in the GDR and Bulgaria
1950 to 1990 and is based on personal texts of postcards. She is the author of numerous publications,
including two books, on various subjects.
Valentina Vaseva, valiavaseva@abv.bg
PhD, associate professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum
at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Vaseva’s research interests lie in rituals, migration, and ethnic
minorities in Bulgaria. Among her publications is the monograph The Rhythm of Life (2006).