{"id":22018,"date":"2026-09-01T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T12:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/?p=22018"},"modified":"2026-09-08T08:51:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T05:51:25","slug":"selected-cas-fellows-for-2026-2027-academic-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/selected-cas-fellows-for-2026-2027-academic-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected CAS Fellows for 2026\/2027 Academic Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style><p>After the final session of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/about\/bodies\/\">CAS Academic Advisory Council<\/a> on the 21st of June and a series of interviews conducted the following week, CAS granted its fellowships for 2026\/2027 to the scholars listed below:<\/p>\n<h3>Relevance of the Humanities Fellowships for International Scholars<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Collins, Aidan<\/strong> (University of Nottingham Ningbo, China \/ UNNC): <em>The Conceptualisation of Debt in Early Modern America, 1683-1800<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Riedler, Hannah<\/strong> (Austrian Academy of Sciences): <em>The Unwanted Union? Moldavian Regionalism and the Making of Modern Romania (1859\u20131918)<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Salkowski, David<\/strong> (University of North Florida, USA): <em>The Social Life of Music in Interwar Bulgaria<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Short, Ewan<\/strong> (Independent scholar): <em>Empresses of the City. The Visibility of Imperial Women in Byzantine Constantinople between 919 and 1204;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Szab\u00f3-Reznek, Eszter<\/strong> (Department of Hungarology, Jewish Studies and Rromani, University of Bucharest): <em>Theatre as Factory. Artists, Workers and Planned Economy in Romanian State Socialism (1944\u20131956)<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Vojt\u00ed\u0161kov\u00e1, Lenka<\/strong> (Charles University, Faculty of Humanities, Prague): <em>Rethinking the Materiality of Language: The Prague Linguistic Circle and Avant-Garde Literary Practice<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Gerda Henkel Fellowships<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Karagedikli, G\u00fcrer<\/strong> (Middle East Technical University, Turkey): <em>Law, Family, and Gift-Giving in Ottoman Istanbul, 1622-1826;<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Simen, Serkan<\/strong> (European University Institute, Italy): <em>White-bearded Pashas and Young Servants: Generational Awareness, Dynamics and Networks in the sixteenth century Ottoman Empire<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Academic Diaspora<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Dikova-Milanova, Miglena <\/strong>(Ghent University, Department of Languages and Cultures, Belgium): <em>Embodied Testimony and Cultural Conflict: Gender, Violence, and Memory in Contemporary Bulgarian Literature (Karabash and Elmy in Dialogue with Lea Ypi);<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Djagalov, Rossen<\/strong> (New York University, USA): <em>Multinational Soviet Literature: a Brief History (a book project).<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Independent Fellowships for Bulgarian Junior Scholars<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Atanassova, Vessela<\/strong> (Institute for Balkan Studies with Center of Thracology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences): <em>The Thracians in Ptolemaic Egypt<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Moshelova, Mila<\/strong> (Sofia University, Department of Political Sciences): <em>The Politics of History and Democratic Resilience in Post-Authoritarian Contexts: a comparative perspective on memory, meaning, and political contestation in Bulgaria, Estonia, Hungary and Germany<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tsvetkova, Tsvetelina<\/strong> (Faculty of Education, Sofia University &#8220;St. Kliment Ohridski&#8221;): <em>Between Empire, Church, and Nation: Education in Bulgarian Exarchate Schools (1878\u20131912)<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pforzheimer Fellowships for Bulgarian Senior Scholars<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Malinov, Svetoslav<\/strong> (Sofia University, Department of Political Sciences): <em>Pro-European Conservatism vs. Conservative Populism. A Radical Defence of the European Union<\/em>;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Panayotov, Alexander<\/strong> (Independent Scholar): <em>Religious Identity and Personal Piety among Jews and Christians in the Early Byzantine Balkans and the Aegean<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sustaining Ukrainian Scholarship Program<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Bushko, Halyna <\/strong> (Department of Slavonic Philology, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Ukraine): <em>Lydia Shishmanova-Drahomanova: A Key Architect of Transnational Intellectual Networks and Female Subjectivity in Slavic Scholarship (1880s\u20131930s)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Fediai, Mykola <\/strong> (Institute of Philosophy, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): <em>Mapping Intellectual Centres in Early Modern Eastern Europe: Knowledge Circulation, Student Mobility, and Confessional Interaction<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Ignatenko, Yevgeniya <\/strong>(National Music Academy of Ukraine) <em>Byzantinoslavica: The Past that will Change the Future<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kuzenko, Halyna <\/strong> (Ukrainian Institute of Arts and Sciences, city Bucha, Kyiv Region, Ukraine): <em>The Semiosphere of European Baroque Literature from the Perspective of Translation Studies<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Kyselov, Roman <\/strong>(Department of Ancient Ukrainian Literature, Shevchenko Institute of Literature, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine): <em>The Languages of Early Modern Ukrainian Oratory (Based on 17th\u201318th-Century Rhetoric Courses at the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lysokolenko, Tetiana <\/strong> (Department of Philosophy, Dnipro Academy of Continuing Education, Ukraine): <em>Transgression of the Game in the Media Space<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pavlenko, Svitlana <\/strong>\u00a0(Independent Scholar): <em>Bulgarian\u2013Japanese Traces in the History of Ukraine: Oleksandr Raksheiev, Honorary Consul of Japan in Odesa (1892\u20131898)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Pakhomenko, Sergii <\/strong>(Mariupol State University,relocated to Kyiv, Ukraine, University of Latvia): <em>The decolonisation dimension of Ukrainian Memory Politics: Security Motives and Local Controversies<\/em><\/li>\n<li><strong>Yanenko, Anna <\/strong> (Department of Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra and Museums History, National Preserve \u201cKyiv-Pechersk Lavra\u201d, Ukraine): <em>Askold\u2019s Grave: A Visual History of a Lost Kyiv Necropolis. An Album-Catalogue of Images from the National Preserve \u201cKyiv-Pechersk Lavra\u201d Collection<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Landis &amp; Gyr Artistic Scholarship Program<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Lexi Fleurs<\/b> (Independent Artist): <em>A Book of Short Stories<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the final session of the\u00a0CAS Academic Advisory Council on the 21st of June and a series of interviews conducted the following week, CAS granted its fellowships for 2026\/2027 to the scholars listed below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22018"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22583,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22018\/revisions\/22583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cas.bg\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}