After the final session of the CAS Academic Advisory Council on the 21st of June and a series of interviews conducted the following week, CAS granted its fellowships for 2026/2027 to the scholars listed below:
Relevance of the Humanities Fellowships for International Scholars
- Collins, Aidan (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China / UNNC): The Conceptualisation of Debt in Early Modern America, 1683-1800;
- Riedler, Hannah (Austrian Academy of Sciences): The Unwanted Union? Moldavian Regionalism and the Making of Modern Romania (1859–1918);
- Salkowski, David (University of North Florida, USA): The Social Life of Music in Interwar Bulgaria;
- Short, Ewan (Independent scholar): Empresses of the City. The Visibility of Imperial Women in Byzantine Constantinople between 919 and 1204;
- Szabó-Reznek, Eszter (Department of Hungarology, Jewish Studies and Rromani, University of Bucharest): Theatre as Factory. Artists, Workers and Planned Economy in Romanian State Socialism (1944–1956);
- Vojtíšková, Lenka (Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague): Rethinking the Materiality of Language: The Prague Linguistic Circle and Avant-Garde Literary Practice.
Gerda Henkel Fellowships
- Karagedikli, Gürer (Middle East Technical University, Turkey): Law, Family, and Gift-Giving in Ottoman Istanbul, 1622-1826;
- Simen, Serkan (European University Institute, Italy): White-bearded Pashas and Young Servants: Generational Awareness, Dynamics and Networks in the sixteenth century Ottoman Empire.
Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Academic Diaspora
- Dikova-Milanova, Miglena (Ghent University, Department of Languages and Cultures, Belgium): Embodied Testimony and Cultural Conflict: Gender, Violence, and Memory in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature (Karabash and Elmy in Dialogue with Lea Ypi);
- Djagalov, Rossen (New York University, USA): Multinational Soviet Literature: a Brief History (a book project).
Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Junior Scholars
- Atanassova, Vessela (Institute for Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt;
- Moshelova, Mila (Sofia University, Department of Political Sciences): The Politics of History and Democratic Resilience in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: a comparative perspective on memory, meaning, and political contestation in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary and Germany;
- Tsvetkova, Tsvetelina (Faculty of Education, Sofia University „St. Kliment Ohridski“): Between Empire, Church, and Nation: Education in Bulgarian Exarchate Schools (1878–1912).
Pforzheimer Fellowships for Bulgarian Senior Scholars
- Malinov, Svetoslav (Sofia University, Department of Political Sciences): Pro-European Conservatism vs. Conservative Populism. A Radical Defence of the European Union;
- Panayotov, Alexander (Independent Scholar): Religious Identity and Personal Piety among Jews and Christians in the Early Byzantine Balkans and the Aegean.
Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Program
- Bushko, Halyna (Department of Slavonic Philology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine): Lydia Shishmanova-Drahomanova: A Key Architect of Transnational Intellectual Networks and Female Subjectivity in Slavic Scholarship (1880s–1930s)
- Fediai, Mykola (Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): Mapping Intellectual Centres in Early Modern Eastern Europe: Knowledge Circulation, Student Mobility, and Confessional Interaction
- Ignatenko, Yevgeniya (National Music Academy of Ukraine) Byzantinoslavica: The Past that will Change the Future
- Kuzenko, Halyna (Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences, city Bucha, Kyiv Region, Ukraine): The Semiosphere of European Baroque Literature from the Perspective of Translation Studies
- Kyselov, Roman (Department of Ancient Ukrainian Literature, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): The Languages of Early Modern Ukrainian Oratory (Based on 17th–18th-Century Rhetoric Courses at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)
- Lysokolenko, Tetiana (Department of Philosophy, Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education, Ukraine): Transgression of the Game in the Media Space
- Pavlenko, Svitlana (Independent Scholar): Bulgarian–Japanese Traces in the History of Ukraine: Oleksandr Raksheiev, Honorary Consul of Japan in Odesa (1892–1898)
- Pakhomenko, Sergii (Mariupol State University,relocated to Kyiv, Ukraine, University of Latvia): The decolonisation dimension of Ukrainian Memory Politics: Security Motives and Local Controversies
- Yanenko, Anna (Department of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums History, National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra”, Ukraine): Askold’s Grave: A Visual History of a Lost Kyiv Necropolis. An Album-Catalogue of Images from the National Preserve “Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra” Collection
Landis & Gyr Artistic Scholarship Program
- Lexi Fleurs (Independent Artist): A Book of Short Stories.