CAS Academic Advisory Council

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.

Research Professor at Norwegian Institute of International Affairs, Norway

Dr Morten Bøås

Morten Bøås (PhD) is Research Professor and works predominantly on issues concerning peace and conflict in Africa, including issues such as land rights and citizenship conflicts, youths, ex-combatants and the...

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...

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...

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...

History, Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary

Prof. Attila Melegh

Prof. Attila Melegh works at the Institute of Sociology and Social Policy, Corvinus University, Budapest, Hungary and is Professor at Tomori Pál College, Kalocsa, Hungary. He is Senior Advisor and...

Sociology of Religions, Lund University, Sweden

Assoc. Prof. Tornike Metreveli

Tornike Metreveli is a Docent (Associate Professor) in Sociology of Religions at Lund University. He received his doctorate in sociology from the University of Bern in 2017 and has held...

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...

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...

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...