ARCS Fellows from SE European Institutes: Maria-Alina Asavei, Central European University, Cultures of Resistance in the Balkans: Folk Art and Visual Politics; Dimitrina Popova, Institute of Art Studies – BAS, Graphic Scheme Maps in Scale 1:50,000 of three Roman Cities and their Hinterland, 2nd c. AD: Serdika, Philipoplis and Augusta Traiana; Dr. Petar Todorov, Institute for National History – Skopje, Governing the late Ottoman City: a Comparative Study of Elites in Skopje and Sofia (end of the 18th century – 1869).

These scholars will join our US-based pre-doctoral and postdoctoral fellows, adding an important dyanamic to the Center:

ARCS Pre-doctoral Fellows from American universities (9-month 2013-14 and Spring 2014): Anna Adashinskaya, Central European University, Serbian and Bulgarian Medieval Ktetorship (13th -14th Centuries): two ways of adapting the Byzantine model, 9 month fellowship; Tera Lee Hedrick, Northwestern University, The Power of Objects: Ars Sacra and the negotiation of the sacred in Late Byzantium, 9 month fellowship; Martin Marinos, University of Pittsburgh, Post-Communist media and civil society in Bulgaria, 9 month fellowship; James Adam Rodriguez, Yale University, Bilateral Icons in Byzantium, 9 month fellowship; Secil Uluisik, University of Arizona, Merchant networks and Chorbacis in Plovdiv during the Tanzimat: the case of the Gumushgerdan family, 3 month fellowship

ARCS Postdoctoral Fellow from an American university (January – June 2014): Dr. Cris Scarboro, King’s College, Middle Class Socialism and the Revenge of the More

Joint Fulbright/ARCS Fellow (Sept. 2013 – June 2014): Duncan Ranslem, University of Chicago, East of EDEN: Bulgarian Tourism and European Integration