Dr. Hristo Hristozov

Visiting Fellow 2020
Post-doctoral researcher at "St. Kliment Ohridski" University of Sofia

Contact

Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies / Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies

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, 16^th - 17^th 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 (16^th – 17^th 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 15^th – early 18^th centuries.” Südost-Forschungen, 78, 2020, 39-67

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