Visiting scholars

Elitza Stanoeva holds PhD in History (TU Berlin) and is Assistant Professor at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has been Visiting Fellow in Berlin, Leipzig, Konstanz, Potsdam, Vienna, Florence and Sofia as well as Research Associate in the ERC project PanEur1970s at the European University Institute in Florence. She is author of the monograph Sofia: Ideology, Urban Planning and Life under Socialism (in Bulgarian) and many articles in Bulgarian, English and German.

Dijana is a Ph.D. Candidate in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Pittsburgh. Her dissertation research focuses on the nature of relationships between individuals belonging to ethnic groups that have a history of violence between them, particularly in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel.