After the final session of the CAS Academic Advisory Council on the 20th of June and a series of interviews conducted the following week, CAS granted its fellowships for 2025/2026 to the scholars listed below:
Relevance of the Humanities Fellowships for International Scholars
- Boeck, Brian (Harvard University): Espionage Triangle or Hegelian Triad? The Hidden Logic of the Georgiev Spy Case;
- Collins, Aidan (Newcastle University): The Conceptualisation of Debt in Early Modern America, 1683-1800;
- Erdelyan, Jelena (University of Belgrade, Department of Art History): Jewish Art and Visual Culture in the Balkans in the Pre-Modern Era: From Antiquity to the Age of Sabbatai Sevi;
- Gonçalves, João Felipe (University of São Paulo, Department of Anthropology): Ghosts and Treasures: The Senses of the Great War in Paraguay;
- Jacobs, Isabel (Queen Mary University of London): Forms of Life: Morphology in 2th century Central and East European Philosophy;
- Tobiasz, Aleksandra (Institute of Civilisation and Culture, Ljubljana): (Central) European Self in the mirrors of the West and the East – geopoetic, sensory topographies of East-Central Europe.
Gerda Henkel Fellowships
- Eldem, Tuba (Department of Political Science and International Relations, Fenerbahce University): Patrimonial Power, Populist Securitization and Post-Truth Politics: Unraveling the Populist Governance in Turkey;
- Pavlenko, Svitlana (Faculty of Arts, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada): Soviet Counterintelligence in Dnipropetrovsk: Secrecy, Control, and Industrial Espionage (1950s–1960s);
- Portnov, Andrii (“Prisma Ukraina” Research Network Eastern Europe,): Ukrainian Studies in Cold War Era: Dialogue Above the Iron Curtain, the KGB Special Operations, and Soviet Ukrainian Patriotism.
Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Academic Diaspora
- Klasanova, Lyudmila (Department of Archaeology, University of Bergen): Buddhist-Christian Interactions between Tibet, Italy, and Bulgaria: The Wheel of Life in Alphabetum Tibetanum (1762) and Its Possible Influence on Zahari Zograf’s Mural at the Transfiguration Monastery (1849-1850);
- Schivatcheva, Radostina (International Political Economy, Kings College London): Innovation Beyond the State: Gender and Entrepreneurship in Grassroots Contributions to Bulgaria’s Knowledge Economy.
Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Junior Scholars
- Kuneva, Radoslava (Sofia University, Department of Theory and History of Culture): Wild nature in post-socialist cities – imaginations and social constructions of the wild nature in the context of climate change and environmental crises in Southeastern Europe. The case of Boyana marsh in Sofia and Văcărești park in Bucharest;
- Masheva, Ivelina (Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): Women’s Work and (Un)equal pay: The Gender Pay Gap in Bulgarian Industry, 1910s–1940s;
- Petrova, Zornitsa (Sofia University, Department of Theory and History of Culture): Constructing Otherness: New Religious Movements and the Challenge of Pluralism in Post-Secular Bulgaria;
- Tarhan, Zozan (Sofia University, Faculty of History): Delegitimising Foreign Rulers: Neo-Assyrian Propaganda in Action.
Pforzheimer Fellowships for Bulgarian Senior Scholars
- Slavkova, Magdalena (Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): Gendered charisma and Roma female evangelists (20th-21st century).
Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Program
- Uvarova, Olena (Department of Social Sciences, Odesa National Medical University): Life in Forced Migration: Greek Refugees in Odesa and Chișinău during the Greek Revolution of Independence (1821–1829)
- Zatyliuk, Yaroslav (Department of History, National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy): The Church Statute by the Prince Volodymyr and the Historical Imaginations about Res Gestae of the Baptizer of Rus’ during the 14th -17th Centuries
- Homanyuk, Mykola (Department of Geography and Ecology, Kherson State University): Ukraine’s ethnic minorities during the war: Adaptation to crisis, belonging, identity preservation
- Bryukhanov, Maksym (Independent Researcher): Social mobility of Ukrainian ancestors in the 19th-21st centuries
- Kryvobok, Oleksandr (Department of History of Ukraine , Nizhyn Mykola Gogol State University): Holidays in the military everyday life of the First World War (based on materials from ego-sources of Eastern European countries)
- Tsymbal, Bohdan (Researcher, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): Mykhailo Drahomanov Between Utopian Socialism and Nationalism: Political Thought and Transnational Cultural Networks in the 19th century Ukraine on Dragomanov
Landis & Gyr Artistic Scholarship Program
- DuPasquier, Marie: Curator and Cultural Critic
- Gritsch, Stefan: Visual artist
- Rosochinsky, Max (Researcher, Slavic Languages and Literatures): Art, Truth, and Propaganda in the Digital Age: Ukrainian Poetry During the Hybrid War and Beyond
- Steiner, Tabea: writer and literary mediator.