Diana Mishkova#
| Membership Number: | 6246 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2022 |
| Main Country of Residence: | BULGARIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.cas.bg |
| ORCID: | 0000-0002-4329-522X |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2000 - present Director, Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia
- 2002 - 2005 Associate Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe, Department of Southeast-European History (Faculty of History), Sofia University
- 1988 - 2002 Senior Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe, Department of Southeast-European History (Faculty of History), Sofia University
- 2000 - 2001 Visiting professor at Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey
- 1993 - 1994 Visiting professor at the Centre for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA.
- 1991 and 1997 Guest-researcher and lecturer at the Department of Russian and East European Studies, University of Uppsala, Sweden
- 1992 - 1993 Lecturer in Balkan history for the History MA Program at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Fields of Scholarship
- Conceptual history
- Intellectual history
- Methodology of comparative (historical) research
- Modern and contemporary history of Southeastern Europe
- Modernization of Southeast European societies and the European peripheries 19th - 20th centuries
- History of historiography
- History of nationalism, national identities and identity politics in Southeastern Europe
- History of modern political ideas
Honours and Awards
- 2023 Konstantin Jireček Medal granted by the German Southeast European Association (Südosteuropa-Gesellschaft)
- 2022 Danubius Award granted by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research
- 2019 Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Since 2018 Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 2019 Honorary Fellow, Historisches Kolleg, Munich, Germany
- 2015 In-residence fellow at the Imre Kertesz Kolleg, Jena, Germany
- 2014 In-residence fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany
- 1999 - 2000 Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Institut für die Wissenschaften vom Menschen, Vienna, Austria
- 1998 - 1999 Andrew W. Mellon fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.
- 1994 Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C., USA
- 1991 Guest of the Rector Fellow at the European University Institute, Florence, Italy
