Education:

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Department of History, Ph.D., 2007

Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio, Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy and History, 1995

 Teaching

King's College

Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life"

Western Civilization to 1914

Honors Western Civilization since the Great Revolutions

Eastern Europe in the 19th and 20th Century

Western Experiences since the 18th Century

History through Biography: "Post War Europe"

Global History since 1914

Research and Methods

University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

History of Europe since 1939: "Competing Modernities"

History of Russia since the Earliest Times: "Russia and Empire"

Senior Research Seminar:  "Geographies of Europe"

Guest Lecturer: University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

“That Payment for Civil Society:  The Balkans and European Imagination” in History of Europe 1878-1914 

“Roots, Rock Reggae: Bob Marley and the Postcolonial” in Senior Research Seminar: "Constructing the Commonwealth, Deconstructing the Empire” 

Instructor of English: Natural Sciences and Mathematics High School  Haskovo, Bulgaria

Research Interests:

Socialism and Socialist Humanism

Cultures of Colonialism and Post Colonialism

Nationalism and Transnationalism

Southeastern Europe

Socialist Realism

Publications:

“The Brother-City Project and Socialist Humanism:  Haskovo, Tashkent and Sblizhenie,” Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 86, no. 3, July, 2007.

“Socialist Humanism on Tour:  Monuments, Public Spaces and Subjectivity in Haskovo, Bulgaria,” Ethnologia Balkanica, vol. 10, 2007

“Keith Hitchins şi occidentalismul balcanic,” Vatra vol. 7, 2006.

 “From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: The Ambivalence of Colonial Desire,” Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 6, No. 1, Spring, 2005.

Dissertation:

Living Socialism: The Bulgarian Socialist Humanist Experiment

Book Reviews:

Review of Francine Hirsch, Empire of Nations: Ethnographic Knowledge and the Making of the Soviet Union. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005 in Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, Vol. 6, No. 3, Fall, 2005

 “Difference, Self and Other in the Sister City Program: Sisters in Socialism: Haskovo, Bulgaria and Tashkent, Soviet Socialist Uzbek Republic,” presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Boston, December 4-7, 2004, organized panel entitled: “From Russia with Love: Engaging Communism across Borders”

 “Socializing Aesthetics: Negotiating the Socialist Humanist Art Gallery,” presented at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies, Toronto, November 20-23, 2003

 “From Turkish Bath to Parliament Building: An Investigation of Colonial Desire,” presented at the Canadian Association of Slavonic Studies, University of Toronto, May 24-26, 2002

 “Wrongly Masculine: British Imaginings of the Balkans 1878-1914,” presented at the Third Annual Graduate Symposium on Women's and Gender History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, March 7-9, 2002

Fellowships and Grants

American Council of Learned Societies Dissertation Fellowship in East European Studies, 2005-2006

Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, 2003-2004

Department of History Pre-dissertation Research Travel Grant, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign 2001

Department of History and Russian East European and Eurasian Center Conference Travel Grants, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2003-2006

Foreign Language Area Studies, fellowship for the study of Bulgarian Language, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2000-2002

Awards and Academic Distinctions

Joseph Ward Swain Prize for best published article by a Graduate Student, for “From Bath House to Parliament Building” Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2005

William C. Widenor Teaching Fellowship, Department of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2004-2005

Fredrick S. Rodkey Prize for the most promising graduate student in Russian History, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2001

Professional Development

Participant in the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Junior Scholars’ Training  Seminar, August 12-16, Wye Woods Conference Center, Maryland, 2005

Participant in the Balkan Studies Training Workshop for Junior Scholars on the theme  “Thinking and Writing Balkan Studies: Policy and Paradigms for the 21st Century,” Russian East  European and Eurasian Center University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2005

Editorial Assistant, Slavic Review, 2001-2002

Professional Affiliations:

American Historical Association

American Association for the Advancement of Slavonic Studies

Bulgarian Studies Association

International Association of Southeastern European Anthropology

Syllabi and Course Materials

Summer 2008

Fall 2008

Courses in Regular Rotation

	CORE 131:  Western Civilization Syllabus Sharepoint
	Core 132: Global History Since 1914 Syllabus Sharepoint
	CORE 133: World Civilizations 1453 to the Present Syllabus Sharepoint
	History 255:  History through Biography: "Post War Europe" Syllabus
	History 261: Research and Methods Syllabus Sharepoint
	HIST 380 A: Colonial Worlds Syllabus Sharepoint
	History 477: Cold War Cultures: Visions of the "Good Life" Syllabus Sharepoint
	History 488:  Eastern Europe and the Question of Modernity Syllabus Sharepoint Eastern European Film
	History of Europe Since 1939: "Competing Modernities"
	History of Russia Since the Earliest Times: "Russia and Empire" Syllabus
	Senior Research Seminar: "Geographies of Europe" Syllabus
	Liberal Arts Seminar: Reading the Visual Syllabus Sharepoint