Profile
2017 PhD student at the department of History of Byzantium and Balkan studies, faculty of History, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”. Dissertation title: Highland population and local environment in the Ottoman Rhodope mountains, 16th - 17th c. (academic advisor: Prof. Ivan Parvev)
2011 M.A. in History at the Faculty of History, University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Thesis title: People, environment and sacred places in the region of Asenovgrad (16th – 17th centuries), GPA: 6.00,
2008 B.A. in History at the Faculty of Ph2008ilosophy and History, University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, GPA: 5.71
Main Research Areas
- Ottoman social and economic history, Environmental history, Climate history, Balkan studies
Publications (selected)
Articles and book chapters
- “The waqf of Cedid (Semiz) Ali pasha in Rhodope Mountains: spatial and social aspects of pastoral ecology” In Grigor Boykov, Mariya Kiprovska, Mariya Baramova and Veselin Yanchev (eds.) Waqfs in Bulgaria, (Sofia: Sofia University Press 2020), 109-146 (in Bulgarian language)
- “Overcrowding the Mountains in the Ottoman Balkans: Social and ecological dimensions of the demographic crisis in the district (kaza) of Nevrokop during the 15th – early 18th centuries.” Südost-Forschungen, 78, 2020, 39-67