Bodies – CAS

MEMBERS OF THE CAS BOARD OF TRUSTEES

History of Southeast Europe, University of Vienna, Austria

Prof. Oliver Jens Schmitt (Chair)

Since 2005, Oliver Jens Schmitt has been Professor of History of Southeast Europe at the University of Vienna and since 2017 he has served as Scientific Director at the Institute for Habsburg an Balkan studies of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. His research focuses on the transformation of the Balkans through the Ottoman conquest, the...

Rector of Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany

Prof. Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger

Barbara Stollberg-Rilinger is Professor of Early Modern History at the Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster and since September 2018 the Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg. Her research interests are foremost questions of representation in societies of the 16th to 18th centuries. Her investigations into rituals, symbolic communication and ceremonial have established and opened up a field of research...

Chair of European Politics, University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Prof. Dirk Lehmkuhl

Since February 2008, Prof. Dirk Lehmkuhl has been Chair of European Politics at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland. Within the period 2001-2007 he was Senior Research Fellow at the University of Zurich, Institute of Political Science, Department of International Relations and Lecturer at the Universities of Berne, Lucerne and the Swiss Federal Institue of Technology, Zürich,...

Rector of the New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania

Prof. Valentina Sandu-Dediu

Prof. Valentina Sandu-Dediu graduated in musicology from the National Music University of Bucharest in 1990. She has been teaching at the same institution since 1993 (professor of musicology and stylistics). She wrote over 30 studies, 300 articles, and 7 books (see Rumänische Musik nach 1944, Pfau Verlag, Saarbrücken, 2006; Alegeri, atitudini, afecte. Despre stil și...

East European Cultural History, Leipzig University, Germany

Prof. Stefan Troebst

Stefan Troebst is a historian and Slavicist and since 1999 he is Professor of East European Cultural History at Leipzig University, as well as co-director of the University’s Global and European Studies Institute and deputy director of the Leipzig Centre for the History and Culture of East-Central Europe (GWZO). He studied in Tübingen and at...

Faculty of Law, Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria

Prof. Angel Kalaidzhiev

Angel Kalaidzhiev is professor of civil and commercial law at Sofia University Faculty of Law. He has a doctoral degree in Juridical Sciences (Sofia University Faculty of Law, 2001). He is arbitrator at the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (World Bank Group) and deputy chairman of the Arbitration Court of the Bulgarian Chamber...

'Access to Information Program' Foundation, Bulgaria

Mr Alexander Kashumov

Alexander Kashumov is a Bulgarian lawyer working in the field of administrative, civil and criminal law in Bulgaria. He is a member of the Sofia Bar Association since 1999. He is a well-known international expert in the field of access to information and good governance, freedom of expression, personal data protection, and protection of classified...

CAS DIRECTOR AND ACADEMIC ASSOCIATES

History, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia

Prof. Diana Mishkova

Diana Mishkova is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia, Foreign Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden. Areas of specialization: modern and contemporary history of Eastern Europe.

Economic History, Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria

Assoc. Prof. Martin Ivanov

Assoc. Prof. Martin Ivanov has a PhD degree in economic history and currently teaches at the Department of Sociology of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”. He also has MA degrees in history and law. Selected List of Books: The Gross Domestic Product of Bulgaria, 1870–1945. Sofia: Ciela, 2012. The Networking Capitalism: Bulgarian Commercial Bank...

Literature, Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski', Bulgaria

Assoc. Prof. Nadezhda Alexandrova

Dr. Nadezhda Alexandrova is an associate professor at the Faculty of Slavic Studies at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria. Her interests are focused on Ottoman and Balkan literature and culture from the 18th and the 19th c., on history of emotions, reception studies and gender studies. She has published two monographies on various entanglements...

MEMBERS OF THE CAS ACADEMIC ADVISORY COUNCIL

History, Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany

Prof. Ulf Brunnbauer

Prof. Dr Ulf Brunnbauer is Executive Director of the Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS), Regensburg and Chair of the Department of History of Southeastern and Eastern Europe at the University of Regensburg, Germany. For a detailed CV, please click here.

Slavonic and East European Studies, Ghent University, Belgium

Prof. Raymond Detrez

From 1991 Prof. Raymond Detrez has taught History of the Balkans at the Katholieke Universiteit van Leuven; from 1991 to 1997 Prof. Raymond Detrez taught “Conflict and Conflict Regulation in Culturally Divided Societies” at the School for European Studies at the same university. From 1997 to 2013, he worked as a full professor of East...

Sociology, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”

Prof. Petya Kabakchieva

Prof. Petya Kabakchieva is Professor of Sociology and Head of the Department of Sociology at the Sofia University. She has been a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in Vienna and has completed several studies on the socio-political situation in Bulgaria financed by international organizations, such as NATO, UNDP and the World...

Cultural Studies and History of Eastern Europe, Institute of History, University of Bern, Switzerland

Prof. Carmen Scheide

Prof. Carmen Scheide is Executive Director of the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (GCE-HSG), University of St. Gallen. Dr. Scheide is also a researcher in the international research projects “Region, Nation and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary and Transcultural Reconceptualization of Ukraine” (2011-2015) and “Contact Zones in Ukraine” (2016-2020) at the University of St. Gallen,...

George Steiner Chair of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Prof. Galin Tihanov

Prof. Galin Tihanov (PhD; DPhil, Oxon.) is George Steiner Chair of Comparative Literature, Queen Mary, University of London and Honorary President of ICLA Committee on Literary Theory. For a detailed CV, please click here!

Economy, Centre for Advanced Study Sofia

Assoc. Prof. Roumen Avramov

Associate Professor Roumen Avramov is an economist and economic historian. He has researched the Bulgarian pre-WWII and communist economy, post-communist transition, monetary economics and central banking, business cycles, history of economic ideas, the economics of inter-ethnical conflicts.

Sociology, Prisma Ukraïna Research Network, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin, Germany

Prof. Viktoriya Sereda

Prof. Viktoriya Sereda is a sociologist who has been a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine since 2020. Prior to that, she taught at the Ivan Franko National University of Lviv and at the Ukrainian Catholic University. As a research fellow, she spent extended periods...

History, Central European University, Hungary

Prof. Balázs Trencsényi

Prof. Balázs Trencsényi is Professor of History, specializing in the field of East and Central European political and cultural thought. He is currently Director of IAS Central European University, Budapest (since 2023) where he previously served as Head of the History Department. He is also Director of the History in the Public Sphere Erasmus Mundus...