In addition to our two 9-month Fellows:

• Andriy Fomin (Rutgers University) Historiographic study of Cassius Dio

• Stefan Peychev (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Public building and urban spaces in Ottoman Serdica

ARCS welcomes five graduate students who will experience Sofia/Bulgaria for the next three months. 

• Roy Kimmey (Central European University, Budapest) Symphonic Secularism: a study of Bulgarian society, church and state under Communism 

• Adrian Popan (University of Texas, Austin) Cults of personality of State leaders: causes and structural conditions in Totalitarian societies

• Elena Popan (University of Texas, Austin) Stereotypes attached to minority groups in post-Communist societies: the case of Roma

• Elana Resnick (University of Michigan) Old objects, fragile life: waste and escape in Bulgaria

• Nadezhda Savova (Princeton University) Food and cultural tourism in Bulgaria’s tangible places of intangible heritage.