This dissertation takes up the task to describe and analyze the main aspects of the broad demographic, ethno-religious, and socio-cultural transformation that took place in a geographically limited region of the Ottoman Balkans--the Deliorman (Wild Forest, mod. Ludogorie) in tod…
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This study is devoted to politics of nationalism under Bulgarian communism (1944-89). The research aims to analyse the actual content of the Bulgarian communist policies on three main national questions and the ideas behind them. How did Bulgarian communism understand nation and…
Petar Christoskov, born in 1917 in Sofia, is among the most prolific of Bulgarian violinists, pedagogues and composers of the twentieth century. Christoskov's Suites and Rhapsodies for solo violin represent both an internal evolution of Bulgarian music and an incorporation of th…
Nationalism and national identity were alien concepts to the Ottoman Empire where the millet system classified individuals in terms of their confessional communities. In the Ottoman Balkans, the Greek-Orthodox millet was the dominant one. Under the authority of the Ecumenical Pa…
The dissertation examines the history of the Muslims in Bulgaria in the period 1878-1908 with a particular focus on the emergence and development of a cultural and political reform movement among them and the process of their political mobilization. The modern Bulgarian state wa…
The major purpose of this study was to identify the predictors of the course of disability in schizophrenics in four countries during the two years following a first time diagnosis of the disorder. The study cohorts in Mannheim, Khartoum, Ankara and Sofia consisted of persons pa…
This dissertation explores the intersection between rival forms of consciousness in Pirin Macedonia: national and local, from the anti-Ottoman Ilinden Uprising in Macedonia in 1903 to the end of the Communist "Macedonianization" campaign in 1952. Bulgarian, Macedonian and Englis…
My interest in the history and problems of the Bulgarian composers' school and specifically in the establishment and development of the Bulgarian violin concerto goes far back in my musical career. The Bulgarian composers and their concertos had essential contribution to my deve…
This dissertation consists of two essays that address two distinct topics concerning the land tenure institutions of Bulgaria. The first essay studies the evolution of land tenure institutions, focusing on the period 1839-1944 during which the country experienced two distinct la…
My dissertation is a cross-regional, mixed-methods comparison of the causal effects of changes in the level of economic liberalization upon the onset of ethnic conflict. The conventional wisdom, both in economics and political science, has argued that there is a strong linear re…
In the early 1980s Bulgarian archaeologists of the newly established Centre for Underwater Archaeology at Sozopol discovered the remains of a post-medieval ship in the southern Bay of Kitten, in the lee of Cape Urdoviza. Between 2000 and 2003, the Institute of Nautical Archaeolo…
These essays explore the debilitating role played by financial crises in economic performance, analyzed at the microeconomic level of the household; the impact of institutions on human capital accumulation, both at the microeconomic and macroeconomic levels; and the role played …
In 1989, more than 300,000 Turks fled the assimilation campaign launched by the communist government in Bulgaria and immigrated to Turkey. The arrival of these immigrants was officially hailed as the homecoming of "ethnic kin" (soydas), who, having ensured the survival of Turkis…
A large accession of traditionally Muslim, Turkish speaking Roma (known as Millet) to Christ occurred in the early 1990's, but this church movement began to decline in the second half of the 1990's. This study explores the factors that people who left Millet churches, people who…
The main premise of this thesis is to demonstrate how the Gypsies, (Roma)--both Muslim and Christian, both settled and nomadic--were marginalized by the Ottoman State and society in Rumelia (Rumili ) and Istanbul during the "Classical Age" of this tri-continental Islamic Empire.…