Dr. Lyubomir Pozharliev is a research associate at the Leibniz-Institut für Länderkunde (Leibniz Institute for Regional Geography, IfL) in Leipzig, Germany. He is working within the project Contentious Mobilities: rethinking mobility transitions through a decolonial lens (CoMoDe). In the last three years, he was a postdoctoral researcher within SPP 1981 Transottomanica, funded by the German Research Association (DFG). He received his doctorate in history and cultural studies (2018) from Justus-Liebig University, Giessen, where he is still working and teaching at the Department of Eastern European History. He holds a BA in Sociology (2009) from the University of Sofia, and MA in Comparative History of Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe (2012) from Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
His main interests are in cultural history of infrastructure, technology and mobilities in the long 19th, as well as in 20th century after 1945. Further expertise he offers in theories and history of socialism as well as post-socialism, nationalism and peripheries. He is also working on media research focused on newsreels and historical video testimonies. Pozharliev’s monograph The Road to Socialism. Transport Infrastructure in Socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia (1945–1989) will be published by Vandenhoeck&Ruprecht this year and will be accessible in hard and online copy. At the Centre for Advanced Studies Sofia, he will continue working on his second book with preliminary title “Transcultural Mediators, Strategies and Entangled Modernities: Transportation and Infrastructure in the Imperial Ports of Odessa and Varna in the 19th Century.”
Recent Publications:
- Pozharliev, Lyubomir: „Травма/ Вина в Спомените за ‘Възродителния процес’: стратегии за Справяне” [“Guilt in the Memories about the ‘Revival Process’: coping strategies”] in Насилствената Асимилация на Турците в България 1984-1989. Размисли върху идеологията, историята, последиците. Съставителство и редакция: Румен Аврамов. С. Център за академични изследвания. 2019. [Roumen Avramov (Ed.). The Forced Assimilation of the Turks in Bulgaria 1985-1989. Reflections on Ideology and Sequels. (Sofia: Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, 2019)] 168-181.
- Pozharliev, Lyubomir. “Collectivity vs. Connectivity: Highway Peripheralization in Former Yugoslavia (1940s–1980s).” The Journal of Transport History 37, no. 2 (December 1, 2016): 194-213. https://doi:10.1177/0022526616667134
- González, Danae Gallo and Lyubomir Pozharliev. “Martin Luther King’s assassination in Spain’s NO-DOs and in Bulgaria’s Kinopregledi” in Researching Newsreels: Local, National and Transnational Case Studies. Ed. by Ciara Chambers, Mats Jönsson, and Roel Vande Winkel (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018).
- Pozharliev, Lyubomir: “System Players in a World without a System: The Imperial Institutionalization of the Russian Steam Navigation and Trading Company (ROPiT) in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century” in Pozharliev, Lyubomir, Florian Riedler, Stefan Rohdewald (Hg.): Infrastructures of Transottoman Connections on Danube and Black Sea, in: Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies 4, (June, 2020). (forthcoming)
- Pozharliev, Lyubomir. “Mobility vs Networks – the Trans-imperial Biography of Petar Popov (1832 -1894). Founder of the First Bulgarian Steamship Stock Company” in Transottoman Biographies: 16 – 20 century. Ed. Denise Klein, Anna Vlachopolou, Verushka Wagner (Göttingen: V&R unipress GmbH, 2020), article accepted for publication