STEFAN DETCHEV
Associate-Professor
Department of History
South-West University
Ivan Mihailov 66
2700 Blagoevgrad
Bulgaria
tel. 00 359 73 8889186
fax. 00 359 73 885516
stdetchev@yahoo.com
EDUCATION
2004 Ph.D., University of Sofia, thesis’s title "Russophile and Russophobic
Ideologies in the Bulgarian Press 1886-1894”, diploma
2002 Central European University, SUN, July 8-19 course "Global Mappings:
Symbolic Geographies Revisited", certificate
1997 June 1997, intensive course “History and Computing. New media and
advanced methods for historians and archivist”, Department of Social and Economic
History at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) and The Netherland Historical
Data Archive (NHDA), certificate
1989, MA Department of Byzantine and Balkan History, University of Sofia,
diploma
1988 MA History and Philosophy, University of Sofia, diploma
POSITIONS HELD
2008-2009 Visiting Fellow, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study,
Hungary, project “The Bulgarian Quest for Origins 1880s-1914”
2007, Feb.- July, Visiting Fellow, Europa Fellowship Program, New Europe College,
Bucharest, Romania Dress, Food, and Boundaries. Politics and Identity (1830s-1912) –
the Bulgarian case
2004-2005 fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, project Who are the Bulgarians?
– Ethnogenesis, “Race” and Politics in fin-de siecle Bulgaria” - Fellowship programme
“We, the people”. Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the
“Europe of Small Nations”.
Sept. 2005 postdoctoral fellow, Collegium Budapest, Institute for Advanced Study
and Centre for Advanced Study, Sofia, - Fellowship program “We, the people”.
Visions of National Peculiarity and Political Modernities in the “Europe of Small
Nations”.
2003–2004 postdoctoral fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, Plexus team
project “Roles, Identities and Hybrids. Multiple Institutional Cultures in Southeast
Europe within the Context of European Unification". Individual project title: “From
‘Hush’ to ‘Official’ (Fashioning of ‘Gospodina’) – ‘Balkan Masculinity’, Institutions and
Identity in 1880s and 1890s
2003-2004, 1991-2001, Assistant-Professor, South-West University “Neofit Rilsky”,
Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria.
2001-2003 Visiting Scholar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Facultad De
Ciencias Politicas y Sociologia; Departamento De Historia del Pensamiento y De Los
Movimientos Sociales y Politicos
1997 Feb.-July, Visiting Scholar, Institute Oost Europa, Universitat van Amsterdam
COURSES TAUGHT
2012 – 2013 History of Popular Culture
2009-2013 Modern and Contemporary Bulgarian Political Life.
2004-2011, Masculinity in Bulgarian Politics (1878-1944), including in the University of
Sofia; Modern Bulgarian History, Introduction in Historiography; “Europe” and
Bulgarian Identity – historical and contemporary aspects
1991-2001, 2003-2004, 2012-13 Modern Bulgarian History
1998-2000 Modern Balkan History
1999-2012 Comparative Historiography
PUBLICATIONS
Major monographs (Books)
Who are Our Ancestors? “Race”, Science and Politics in Bulgaria 1879-1912.
Saarbrücken: LAP, 2010.
Politics, Gender and Culture: Articles and Studies on Modern Bulgarian History. Stara
Zagora: Kota, 2010 (in Bulgarian)
In Searching of the Bulgarianness: The networks of national intimacy XIX-XXI c. (editor
and author of the introduction plus 3 pieces). Sofia: Institute of Arts to Bulgarian
Academy of Sciences, 2010. (in Bulgarian)
Other publications
Beltween Slavs and Old Bulgars: “Ancestors,” “Race” and Identity in Late NineteenthCentury In: Geary, P., Klaniczay, G., Manufacturing Middle Ages. Entangled History of
Medievalism in nineteenth-century Europe, Joep Leersen Series “National Cultivation of
Culture”. Amsterdam. Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, 2013, forthcoming august 2013
http://www.brill.com/manufacturing-middle-ages
Border and Identities: From peasants and Christians to “Bulgarians” and “Serbs”- In:
Koprinarov, L. (ed.), The Borders: philosophical and political readings. Sofia: Faber,
2012, pp. 9-28. (in Bulgarian)
Tenderness too incomprehensible: National identity and (homo)sexuality in Bulgaria in
the 1880s and 1890s – Anamnesis, 2009, No. 2, pp. 197-293 (in Bulgarian)
“Who are the Bulgarians? “Race”, science and politics in fin-de-siècle Bulgaria – In: We,
the people. Politics of National Peculiarities in South-East Europe. Budapest: CEU Press,
2009
‘Forbears:’, ‘sainsts’ and ‘martyrs’: the politics of commemoration in Bulgaria in the
1880s and 1890s. http://eprints.ucl.ac.uk/16347 In: Brett, D. and Jarvis, C and Marin, I.
(eds.) “Four Empires and an Enlargement: States, Societies and individuals: transfiguring
perspectives and images of Central and Eastern Europe”. Studies in Russia and Eastern
Europe (4). School of Slavonic and East European Studies, UCL, London, UK, 2008, pp.
33-47, ISBN 9780903425803.
“Teaching History of Masculinity in Bulgaria”, – In: Academic Exchange Quarterly,
vol. 11, Issue 4, Winter 2007, pp. 216-221.
‘The People’ in the Bulgarian Press and Politics in the 1880s and 1890s – In: The
Spectre of the People. New forms of populism – Critique & Humanism, vol. 23, 1, 2007,
pp. 9-30.
Dress, Food, and Boundaries. Politics and Identity (1830s-1912) - New Europe
College, Europa Program Yearbook 2006-2007, Bucharest, pp. 21-44.
“From ‘Hush’ to ‘Official’ (Fashioning of ‘Gospodina’) – ‘Balkan Masculinity’,
Institutions and Identity in 1880s and 1890s. Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, Working
papers, Plexus Project.
Teaching History of Masculinity in Bulgaria – Working Papers on Teaching and
Learning, Curriculum Resource Center, Central European University, Budapest, 2006.
From „linguistic turn” to “historic turn”. (La historia y las ciencias humanas y sociales:
Estrategias interdisciplinares en el siglo XX.”, Pamplona, 11-13 april 2002, Universidad
de Navara, - Anamnesis, II, 2007, No. 1, http://anamnesis.info/anamneza/BROI4.htm
(In Bulgarian)
Review on Wingfield, Nancy M. and Bucur, Maria eds., Gender War in the TwentiethCentury Eastern Europe. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press,
2006, 240 S., EUR 56,50, ISBN 978-0253347312, - In: L’Homme, vol 19, No. 2, 2008
Two Projects about Bulgarian National Identity from the Late Nineteenth Century)
– В: The Balkan XIX century – Other Readings. Sofia: Centre for Advanced Study Riva,
2006, pp. 273-312 (in Bulgarian).
Vallás és identitás a bolgár közszférában, Korunk, Január, 2005, No. 1, pp. 22-29.
Religion and Identity in the Bulgarian Public Sphere (Russophile and Russophobic
Ideologies in 1880s and 1890s) – In: John F. Kennedy School of Government, Minda de
Ginsburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusets,
2004., http://www.ksg.harvard.edu/kokkalis/workshop.html
Mapping Russia in the Bulgarian Press (1886-1894). – In: Symbolic Geographies.
Cahiers de l’ Echinox, vol. 5. Central European University, Budapest, Center for
Historical Studies, Dacia, Cluj, Romania, 2003.
PARTICIPATION WITH PAPERS AT INTERNATIONAL MEETINGS
AND WORKSHOPS
9-11 March 2009, Veda Slovena and Metodi Graginov’s chronicle – two nineteenth
century Bulgarian forgeries, final workshop of the Medievalism Project
8-11 August 2007, Conference of the International Federation for Research in Women’s
History, “Women, Gender and the Cultural Production of Knowledge”, St. Kliment
Ohridski University of Sofia, paper “From “Hush” to “Official”: Masculinity, Identity
and Duelling in Bulgarian fin-de-siécle”
5-7 July 2007, international seminar “Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Central
and Southeast Europe, 1850-1950” the Research Group in European Urban Culture
Newcastle (UK); The Institute of Balkan Studies, Sofia, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences,
paper: “Public, Press, Town and Politics in the Bulgarian Late Nineteenth Century. What
was the Bulgarian Public Sphere?”
29-30 Juin 2007, Normes, pratiques et représantations constitutives du champ du
culinaire, Colloque international, New Europe College, Bucarest, paper: Food and
Identity in the Bulgarian Political Discourse. Social and Cultural Dimensions (1830s1912)
Dec. 15-17, 2005 Remembering the Ottoman-Russian War (1877-78) in the Bulgarian
Public Sphere (Russophile and Russophobic Ideologies in 1880s and 1890s) – Middle
East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
April 15-17 2004, ASN 9th Annual World Convention,
Harriman
Institute,
Columbia University, New York,
paper title “Between “Slavic,” “Bulgarian,” “Balkan” and
“European” - Russophile and Russophobe Ideologies about
Bulgarian National Identity, 1886 -1894
Feb. 5-6, 2004, The Socrates Kokkalis 6 th Annual Graduate Student Workshop, Minda
de Ginzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, paper “Religion and
Identity in the Bulgarian Public Sphere in 1880’s and 1890’s (Russophile and
Russophobe Ideologies)”
Nov. 6-8, 2003, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College
London, Postgraduate Conference “Four Empires and an Enlargement”, paper
“Forbears”, “Saints” and “Martyrs” in Bulgaria in the 1880s and 1890s”
Nov. 8-10, 2002, The University of California, Berkeley, The Institute of Slavic, East
European and Eurasian Studies, Postgraduate Research Conference, "One Ring to Rule
Them All? Power and Power Relations in East European Politics and Societies" paper
"Family Language and Power in Bulgarian Politics in the 1880s and 1890s"
Oct. 18-20, 2002, Sofia, First International NEXUS Conference, Center for Advanced
Study, Sofia "The Balkans: Mapping Identities (18th–21st century), Between “Slavic”
and “Bulgarian” - Russophile and Russophobe Discourses and Bulgarian Identity (18861894)
June 7-8, 2002 Center for South-East European Studies, School of Slavonic and East
European Studies, University College London, conference "Balkan Masculinities",
paper "Politics, Masculinity and Male Honour in Bulgaria in the 1880s and 1890s (the
Savova affair, 1894)"
June 13, 2002, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Historia del
Pensamiento y de los Movimientos Sociales y Políticos, Seminario de investigación,
paper "Europa" y las identidades nacionales: un intento de análisis de los casos español y
búlgaro (ss. XIX - XX)"
March 11-13, 2002, Universidad Complutence de Madrid, Facultad de Filología,
Congreso Internacional "España y el mundo eslavo.Relaciónes lingüísticas, Literarias y
Culturales, paper "La idea de "Europa" en la historia búlgara."
Sept. 21-23, 2001 Ouranoupoli, Joint History Project, Center for Democracy and
Reconciliation, Seminar "Traditions of Liberty in the Balkans, "Rhetoric and Legitimacy
- The Idea of "Liberty" in Bulgarian Press, Public Opinion and Popular Political Culture
in 1880s and 1890s"
June 29-July 1, 2001, Joint History Project, Center for Democracy and Reconciliation,
Junior Scholars' Workshop, Dubrovnik, Croatia, "Mother" or "She-Bear", Russia in
Bulgarian Press, Public Opinion and Popular Political Culture 1886-1894.
April 23-28, 2001, SIEF Conference, Budapest, Hungary,
"Past, Memory,
Commemoration and Nation: The Days of National Commemoration in Bulgaria in the
1880s and 1890s"
April 12-15, 2000 Third European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam,
“He is still alive, still alive” - Identity and Nation-Building in Modern Bulgaria in the late
XIX - th Century.
Feb 28-March 1, 2000 - Gender conference in Bansko, Bulgaria, “She” on the Balkans,
working language English, “Private, Public, Political: Savova’s Affair 1894”
Sept. 9-13, 1998 - Conference “History and Identity in Eastern Europe”, Institute for East
European Studies and Institute of American Studies, University of Amsterdam; “The
role of Europe in Bulgarian Identity - historical and contemporary aspects”
March 5-7, 1998 - Second European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam,
"Politics and Public Opinion in Bulgaria in the Late Nineteenth Century. (Attitudes
Towards Russia)”
March 1997 Institute of East European Studies, University of Amsterdam - “Bulgarian
and Serbian Attitudes Towards Russia 1878 - 1912"
MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
2013 Club for Academic Reform in Bulgaria
2007-2013 Editorial Review Board, International Journal for Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning, Georgia Southern University, USA
2004-2008 History Club, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia
2001-2013 Balkan Academic News
2001-2003 Seminar de Investigaciones, Departamento de Historia, Universidad
Complutence de Madrid
2001-2008 Bulgarian Studies Association
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2008-2009 Swedish Bank Tercentenary Foundation, Medievalism Project, Collegium
Budapest
2006-2007 Volkswagen Stiftung, Europa Fellowship Program, New Europe College,
Bucharest
2004-2005,Curriculum Resource Center, Course Development
Competition, Higher Education Support Program, Central European
University, Budapest, title of the Project: Masculinity in Bulgarian Politics
(1879-1944)
2004, Kokkalis Program on South-Eastern Europe, Harvard University, to attend the
6th Annual Graduate Student Workshop, Center for European Studies, John Kennedy
School of Government, Harvard University
2002, the Arts and Humanities Division of University of California Berkeley's
College of Letters and Science, to attend Research Conference, "One Ring to Rule
Them All? Power and Power Relations in East European Politics and Societies"
2002 University College London, Centre for South-East European Studies, School of
Slavonic and East European Studies, to attend a conference "Balkan Masculinities"
2001- 2003 Agencia Espanola de Cooperacion Internacional, AECI, visiting
fellowship, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Departamento de Historia del
Pensamiento.
2001, Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation, Thessaloniki, to attend the seminar
in Ouranoupoli, "Traditions of Liberty in the Balkans"
2001, Centre for Democracy and Reconciliation , to attend Junior Scholars' Workshop,
Dubrovnik, Croatia
2001, Werner Gran Foundation, to attend SIEF Conference, Budapest, Hungary
1998, University of Amsterdam; Institute for East European Studies, to attend a
conference “History and Identity in Eastern Europe”
1998, Open Society Sofia, travel expenses to attend Second European Social Science
History Conference, Amsterdam.
1997, Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation in Higher Education,
NUFFIC, visiting fellowship in Institute of East European Studies, University of
Amsterdam, Slavisch Seminarium, University of Amsterdam; International Institute of
Social History, Amsterdam, Amsterdam Centre for Comparative European Social Studies
(ACCESS)
LANGUAGES
English
Russian
Spanish
French
Italian - reading
Serbian -reading