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Dr Anna Mirkova received her MA and PhD degrees from the University of Michigan –Ann Arbour, USA (1999-2006). Her doctoral work was on Land Ownership and Modernisation in the Transition from Ottoman Imperial to Bulgarian National Rule (1877/78-1908). She has specialised in the history of Modern Eastern Europe (18th century – present), Western Europe and the Ottoman Empire. Her academic interests focus on Muslim Christian relations in Southeastern Europe, nationalism and nation-building, issues of citizenship, private property, refugees, pluralism, and democracy. Among the numerous awards she has been awarded, Dr Mirkova holds an Ottoman Language Study Scholarship at Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey (2001, 2002), a Humanities Research Dissertation Fellowship and a Pascal Fellowship from the University of Michigan (2002-2003, 2004-2005, 2003), and a Returning Scholarship by the Open Society Institute, Higher Education Support Programme (2007 – present). Since her return to Bulgaria in 2007, she has taught courses in Ethnicity, Nations, Nationalism in the Balkans; Muslim-Christian Relations in the Modern Balkans, and Qualitative Research Methods in the social sciences at the Department of History and Theory of Culture, Sofia University.
Dr Mirkova is an ad hoc reviewer for the outstanding academic journal, Comparative Studies in Society and History, and she holds memberships at the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, the American Historical Association, and the Middle East Studies Association.