Theodora Dragostinova

Department of History Phone: 614-292-1602 The State University Fax: 614-292-8666 230 West 17th Avenue Email: [email protected] Columbus, OH 43210 ______EDUCATION

2005 Ph.D. in History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

2000 M.A. in History, University of Florida

1998 B.A. in History and Archaeology, University of Athens, Greece

1993 Certificate, Modern Center, University of Athens, Greece

1991 Undergraduate studies, Department of History, University of , , 1991-1992 ______POSITIONS

2018 Visiting Fellow, Center for Advanced Study, Sofia, Bulgaria

2015 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany

2012~ Associate Professor of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

2007-2012 Assistant Professor of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio

2006-2007 Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama ______PUBLICATIONS

Monographs and Edited Volumes

2011 Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the of Bulgaria, 1900-1949 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2011). . Honorable mention, The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities and Harriman Institute, Columbia University . Honorable mention, The Edmund Keeley Book Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association . Past President Book Bronze Award, Association for Borderlands Studies

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2016 Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (co-edited with Yana Hashamova) (New York & Budapest: Central European University Press, 2016).

Refereed Journal Articles and Book Chapters

2018 “Introduction. Beyond the Iron Curtain: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War,” Slavic Review, vol. 77, no. 3 (Fall 2018), 577-587 (coauthored with Malgorzata Fidelis). *Guest editor for a thematic cluster featuring four articles and an introduction.

2018 “The ‘Natural Ally’ of the ‘Developing World’: Bulgarian Culture in India and Mexico,” Slavic Review, vol. 77, no. 3 (Fall 2018), 661-684.

2018 “Studying Balkan State-Building: From the ‘Advantages of Backwardness’ to the European Framework,” European History Quarterly, vol. 48, no. 4 (Fall 2018): 708-713.

2018 “On ‘Strategic Frontiers’: Debating the Borders of the Post-World War II Balkans,” Contemporary European History, vol. 27, no. 3 (August 2018), 387-411.

2018 “The East in the West: Bulgarian Culture in the United States of America during the Global 1970s,” Journal of Contemporary History, vol. 53, no. 1 (January 2018): 212-239.

2017 “Demography and Population Movements” (coauthored with David Gerlach), in Irina Livezeanu and Arpad von Klimo, eds. The Routledge History of East Central Europe from 1700 to the Present (New York: Routledge, 2017), 126-175.

2016 “Continuity vs. Radical Break: National Homogenization Campaigns in the Greek- Bulgarian Borderlands before and after the Balkan Wars,” Journal of Genocide Research, vol. 18, no 4 (December 2016), 405-426.

2016 “Introduction. Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans” (coauthored with Yana Hashamova), in Theodora Dragostinova and Yana Hashamova, eds. Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (New York and Budapest: Central European University Press), 1- 30.

2016 “In Search of the : Mapping the Nation through National Classifications” in Theodora Dragostinova and Yana Hashamova, eds. Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans (New York and Budapest: Central European University Press), 105-128.

2009 “Navigating Nationality in the Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece, 1919-1941,” East European Politics and Societies, vol. 23, no. 2 (May 2009): 185-212.

2008 “Speaking National: Nationalizing the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1939,” Slavic Review,

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vol. 67, no. 1 (Spring 2008): 154-81.

2006 “Competing Priorities, Ambiguous Loyalties: Challenges of Socioeconomic Adaptation and National Inclusion of the Interwar Bulgarian Refugees,” Nationalities Papers, vol. 34, no. 5 (November 2006): 549-74.

Others Publications and Podcasts

2018 “Ohio v. Peace: The Bosnian War and the Dayton Accords,” podcast interview for “Ohio V. The World” with Alex Hastie, 19 April 2018. URL: https://soundcloud.com/ohiovtheworld/ohio-v-peace

2016 “Kas pagulased või immigrandid? Tagasivaade Euroopa pagulaskriisidele.” Estonian version of “Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, vol. 9, no. 4 (January 2016). Sirp, 15 January 2016. URL: http://www.sirp.ee/s1-artiklid/c9-sotsiaalia/kas- pagulased-voi-immigrandid/

2015 “Road to Europe: The 2015 Migration Crisis” podcast interview featured in “Isis, Syria, and the Middle East,” Insight: Timely Topics from the College of Arts and Sciences, December 2015 (with Robin Judd and Steven Hyland). URL: https://artsandsciences.osu.edu/news/syria-isis-and-middle-east

2015 “Road to Europe: The 2015 Migration Crisis,” podcast interview on “History Talk,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, October 2015 (with Robin Judd and Steven Hyland). URL: http://origins.osu.edu/historytalk/road-europe-2015-migration- crisis

2015 “Refugees or Immigrants? The Migration Crisis in Europe in Historical Perspective,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, vol. 9, no. 4 (January 2016). URL: http://origins.osu.edu/article/refugees-or-immigrants-migration-crisis-europe- historical-perspective/page/0/0

2014 “Empty Fountains: Communist-Era Monuments Revisited,” blog post in “Connecting History,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, 4 November 2014. URL: http://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/1142014-empty-fountains-communist- era-monuments-revisited

2014 “1989: The Year that Changed It All,” with Nicholas Breyfogle and Angela Brintlinger, podcast of “History Talk,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, October 2014. URL: http://origins.osu.edu/historytalk/1989-year-changed-it-all

2014 “Neobichajni kontakti prez Studenata vojna” (Unlikely Cold War Encounters), Portal Kultura, 17 April 2014. URL: http://kultura.bg/web/category/%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%B8/debates/

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2012 “Kak edno malko amerikansko gradche stana pochitatel na Balgariia” (How a small American town became an admirer of Bulgaria), Dnevnik, 13 June 2012. URL: http://www.dnevnik.bg/bulgaria/2012/06/13/1844889_kak_edno_malko_amerikansko_gr adche_stana_pochitatel_na/

2009 “1989 Twenty Years On: The End of Communism and the Fate of Eastern Europe,” Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective, vol. 3, no. 3 (December 2009). URL: http://ehistory.osu.edu/osu/origins/article.cfm?articleid=35

Book Reviews

2015 Ipek Yosmaoglu, Blood Ties: Religion, Violence, and the Politics of Nationhood in Ottoman , 1878-1908. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2014. Slavic Review, vol. 74, no. 1 (Spring 2015): 164-165.

2012 Roumen Daskalov, Debating the Past. Modern Bulgarian History: From Stambolov to Zhivkov. Budapest and New York: Central European University Press, 2011. American Historical Review, vol. 117, no. 4 (October 2012): 1323-1325.

2012 Christine Philliou, Biography of an Empire: Governing Ottomans in an Age of Revolution. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2011. Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 54, no. 4 (October 2012): 942-943.

2012 Yannis Sygkelos, Nationalism from the Left: The Bulgarian Communist Party during the Second World War and the Early Post-War Years. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill (Balkan Studies Library, 2), 2011. Slavic Review, vol. 71, no. 3 (Fall 2012): 680-681.

2008 Rogers Brubaker, Margit Feischmidt, Jon Fox, and Liana Grancea, Nationalist Politics and Everyday Ethnicity in a Transylvanian Town. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. HABSBURG, H-Net Reviews, May 2008. URL: http://www.h-net.msu.edu/reviews/showrev.cgi?path=287521210264381

2001 “Review of Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in 20th Century Europe International Conference, Humboldt University, Germany, June 2001,” Newsletter - Social Science in Eastern Europe, September 2001: 25-27.

______AWARDS AND HONORS

2017 Paul W. Brown Excellence in Teaching Award, College of Arts & Science, The Ohio State University

2014 Past President Book Bronze Award, Association for Borderlands Studies

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2013 Honorable mention, Edmund Keeley Book Prize, The Modern Greek Studies Association

2012 Honorable mention, The Joseph Rothschild Prize in Nationalism and Ethnic Studies, Association for the Study of Nationalities and the Harriman Institute, Columbia University

2007 The John O. Iatrides Best Dissertation Prize, Modern Greek Studies Association, for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek topic

2005 The Yaro Skalnik Prize, Russian, East European and Eurasian Center, University of I llinois at Urbana-Champaign, for the best graduate essay in East European Studies

2004 The James F. Clarke Memorial Scholarship Award, Bulgarian Studies Association, for the best graduate student conference presentation

2001 Hangar Graduate Research Award, Department of History, University of Florida, for preliminary dissertation research

2000 Presidential Recognition Award, University of Florida

2000 Award for Outstanding International Student, University of Florida ______FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS

2018 Faculty Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

2018 Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme research grant

2018 Principal investigator, Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Project, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme, The Ohio State University, 2018-2020 ($200,000).

2018 Faculty Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

2016 Co-investigator, Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme Pilot Project, “Movers and Migrants: Humanities & Arts Perspectives on Global Mobility,” The Ohio State University, 2016-2018 ($110,000).

2016 Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme pilot project research grant

2016 Small Grant for International Travel, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University

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2016 Office of International Affairs Faculty Grant, The Ohio State University (for lecture series)

2015 Faculty Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University (for conference organization)

2015 Small Grant for International Travel, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University

2013 Co-Investigator, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, “The Intersection of Language, Politics, and Human Expression in the Balkans and South Asia” ($175,000).

2013 RTAP Fellowship, Department of History, The Ohio State University, 2013-2015

2013 Associate Professor Mentorship Award, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University

2013 Faculty Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

2012 Research Enhancement Grant, Division of Arts and Humanities, College of Arts & Sciences, The Ohio State University

2011 International Affairs Faculty Grant, Office of International Affairs, The Ohio State University

2011 Faculty Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University

2011 Faculty Grant, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University (for conference and edited volume)

2011 Collaborative Research Grant, College of Arts & Humanities, The Ohio State University (for conference and edited volume)

2010 Publication Subvention Grant, Center for Slavic and East European Studies, The Ohio State University

2010 Publication Subvention Grant, College of Arts & Humanities, The Ohio State University

2008 ACLS Postdoctoral Fellowship in Southeast European Studies, American Council of Learned Societies and the U.S. Department of State

2008 Short-Term Research Grant, International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX)

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INVITED TALKS

2018 “A Small State on the Global Stage: Bulgaria’s ‘Developing World’ in the 1970s,” Max Kade Center for European and German Studies, Vanderbilt University, 12 October 2018.

2018 “A Small State on the Global Scene: Bulgarian Cultural Diplomacy in the 1970s,” Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, Slovenian Academy of Sciences & Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 20 March 2018.

2016 “Building Good Will: Culture and Regional Cooperation in the Cold War Balkans,” Russian and East European Institute & Modern Greek Program, Indiana University, 27 September 2016.

2016 “From the Iron Curtain to Fortress Europe: The Refugee Crisis and the European Idea at a Crossroad,” Human Rights Program, Purdue University, 18 April 2016.

2015 “The Cold War from the Margins: Bulgaria on the Global Cultural Scene of the 1970s,” Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, 25 June 2015.

2014 “Between Home and Homeland: National Dilemmas and Individual Strategies of the Greeks in Bulgaria in the Interwar Period,” Social and Economic History Seminar, The Red House for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, 25 June 2014 (delivered in Bulgarian).

2014 “Culture for the Masses? The Contradictory Logic of Bulgarian Cultural Diplomacy in the 1970s and 1980s,” Panitza Communist Studies Lecture Series, American University of Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, 15 April 2014.

2014 “Unlikely Cold War Encounters: The Bulgarian “Cultural Penetration” in the USA in the 1970s and 1980s,” Institute for the Investigation of the Recent Past, The America for Bulgaria Foundation, and the Red House for Culture and Debate, Sofia, Bulgaria, 10 April 2014 (delivered in Bulgarian). URL: http://www.redhouse-sofia.org/AudioVideo.aspx?id=844&audio=0

2014 “Unlikely Cold War Encounters: The Bulgarian Cultural Opening in the 1970s from a Transnational Perspective,” Seminar: Eastern European and Northern Eurasian Crosstalk (SEE NEXT), Institute for the Humanities, University of Illinois at Chicago, 26 February 2014.

2013 “Between Home and Homeland: Emigration and National Dilemmas across the Bulgarian-Greek Border in the Early Twentieth Century,” European Union Center, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8 March 2013.

2012 Keynote address, “Politics and Limits of Nationalization: A View from Below,”

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International Conference “Homogenizing South-Eastern Europe: Balkan Wars, Ethnic Cleansing and Postwar Ethnic Engineering since 1912,” Institute for East European History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria, 8-10 November 2012.

2011 “From Individual to State Rights: The Politics of Population Exchange in the Twentieth- Century Balkans,” Office of International Studies and Programs, Illinois State University, 13 April 2011.

2011 “Between Home and Homeland: Minority Rights and National Dilemmas across the Greek Bulgarian Border,” Center for Russia, East Europe, and Central Asia, University of Wisconsin – Madison, 7 April 2011.

2009 “Bulgarian Crossroads: History, Nationalism, and Identity,” Seminar for the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria organized by the Intelligence and Research Bureau of the U.S. Department of State and the National Intelligence Council, 9 November 2009.

2009 “Between Home and Homeland: Minority Rights and National Dilemmas across the Greek Bulgarian Border,” Greek Study Group, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, Harvard University, 26 February 2009.

2008 “Is a Voluntary Population Exchange Possible? The 1919 Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece,” Hellenic Studies Program, Yale University, 20 November 2008.

2008 “Bulgarian Crossroads: History, Nationalism, and Identity,” Seminar for the United States Ambassador to Bulgaria organized by the Intelligence and Research Bureau, U.S. Department of State, 23 May 2008.

2003 “A ‘Great Migration of Peoples:’ Population Adjustments in the Balkans 1800-1925,” guest lecture in the honor’s seminar “The Balkans: Culture, Conflict, and Identity,” Professor Keith Langston, University of Georgia, October 2003.

2002 “Population Movements and Minority Exchanges between Bulgaria and Greece, 1903- 1925,” guest lecture in the Modern Greek History course of Professor Aleka Boudzouvi, Department of History, University of Athens, Greece, April 2002 (delivered in Greek).

______CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION

2019 Presenter, Roundtable “Migration and Borders: An Interdisciplinary Conversation,” 2019 Summer Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia, 16 June 2019.

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2019 Chair and discussant, Panel “Bulgarian Pasts,” 2019 Summer Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Zagreb, Croatia, 15 June 2019.

2018 “The Cold War from the Margins: Bulgarian Culture and the Global 1970s,” Seminar Series, Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 5 July 2018.

2017 Discussant, Panel “Media and Film Coverage of Migrants and Refugees in the Balkans,” 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Chicago, 9 November 2017.

2017 Presenter, Roundtable “Writing Refugee History: Regional and International Perspectives,” 49th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Chicago, 11 November 2017.

2017 Presenter, “The Second World in the Third: Bulgarian notions of economic and cultural development in Nigeria, 1976-1982,” Conference The Other Globalisers: How the Socialist and Non-aligned World Shapes the Rise of Post-War Economic Globalization, Exeter University, United Kington, 6-7 July 2017.

2016 Chair and Discussant, Panel Hearts and Minds: Reactions to the Vietnam War in Socialist Romania, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia, 48th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, 18 November 2016.

2016 Presenter, Roundtable “Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Alternative Narratives of the Nation in the Balkans,” 48th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, 18 November 2016.

2016 Presenter, “Establishing Global Cultural Presence: Bulgarian Elites and Cultural Globalization in the Global 1970s,” Workshop A Change of Plans: New Perspectives on Bulgaria’s Command Economy, Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 28 July 2016.

2016 Chair and Discussant, Panel Organizations and Identity, Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, Ohio, 10 April 2016.

2016 Presenter, “The “Natural Ally” of the “Developing World”: Showcasing Bulgarian Culture in Nigeria, India, and Mexico in the 1970s,” workshop Iron Curtain Crossings: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, Columbus, Ohio, 5 March 2016.

2015 Discussant, Panel Constructing the Modern State in the Balkans, 47h Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 21 November 2014.

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2015 Presenter, “’A Modern Nation Salutes Its Past’: Bulgarian Cultural Diplomacy in the West in the 1970s,” Panel From Envisioning the Other to Disturbing the Divide: East- West Encounters in the Cold War, 47th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Philadelphia, PA, 20 November 2015.

2015 Presenter, Panel Competing Jewish Nationalism: Zionism, Anti-Zionism, and National Indifference, Workshop on “Zionism in Comparative Perspective,” Melton Center for Jewish Studies, The Ohio State University , 9 November 2015.

2015 Presenter, “The East in the West: Cold War Cultural Cooperation and Cultural Globalization in the 1970s,” Panel Winning Hearts and Minds in the Cold War: Comparative Perspectives on State Socialist Transnational Practices, 22nd International Conference for Europeanists, Council for European Studies, Sciences Po, Paris France, 8- 10 July 2015.

2015 Chair, Panel Reintegration of Migrants, International conference “Migration in and out of East and Southeast Europe: Values, Networks, Well-Being,” Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, Regensburg, Germany, 3 July 2015.

2014 Presenter, “The ‘Hostile’ and the ‘Loyal’: Émigrés in the Bulgarian ‘Cultural Opening’ of the 1970s and 1980s,” Panel The Uses of Diaspora: Contested Ideas of Trans-territorial Nations in Eastern Europe, 46th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, San Antonio, Texas, 20 November 2014.

2014 Discussant, Panel The Second and Third Worlds, international conference Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH, 9-11 October 2014.

2014 Presenter, Panel Comparing the Balkans and South Asia: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, international conference Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia, The Ohio State University. Columbus, OH, 9-11 October 2014.

2014 Discussant, Panel Comparative Imaginings of Political Economy: Transnational Circulations of Race, Gender, and the State, European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria, 26 April 2014.

2014 Presenter, “Communist Bulgaria's Cultural Extravaganza in the United States: From Ideological Rigidity to Cultural Universalism in the 1970s and 1980s,” Panel Iron Curtain Crossings: Cold War Cultural Encounters between East and West, European Social Science History Conference, Vienna, Austria, 25 April 2014.

2013 Participant, Roundtable Connecting Histories: Thinking Transnationally East and West, 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, 21 November 2013.

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2013 Discussant, Panel Muslim Identity in Contemporary Bulgaria: Representations, Self- Representations, and Mis-Representations, 45th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Boston, 22 November 2013.

2013 Presenter, “New Research on Southeastern Europe,” Eastern European Reading Group, Department of History, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 8 March 2013.

2012 Presenter, “Archives and the Politics of Memory in Post-socialist Bulgaria,” Roundtable “Conducting Archival Research in Bulgaria and Romania, and Related Resources in Washington, DC,” 44th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, 16 November 2012.

2012 Discussant, Panel Muslim Emigration from the Balkans: Causes, Motives, and Impact, 1878-1914, 44th Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, New Orleans, 18 November 2012.

2012 Chair and Discussant, Panel Ethnic Identities, Relations, and Survival, Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 31 March 2012.

2011 Presenter, “’You Shall Not Steal Your Neighbor’s History’: Commemorating the Nation in Late Socialist Bulgaria,” Panel Moscow’s Most Loyal Ally?: Revisiting Communist Bulgaria’s Unexceptionalism, 43rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, 18 November 2011.

2011 Organizer and Participant, Roundtable “The Shifty Balkans?: Debating Multi- nationality and Transient Loyalties in the (post-) Ottoman Balkans,” 43rd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Washington, DC, 17 November 2011.

2011 Presenter, “To Stay or to Go: The Bulgarian Greeks between Home and Homeland in the Interwar Years,” Panel Identity in Diasporic Communities, Modern Greek Studies Association Symposium, New York City, 15 October 2011.

2011 Presenter, “In Search of the Bulgarians: Mapping the Nation through National Classifications,” Conference Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 7 October 2011.

2011 Chair and Discussant, Panel History and Identity, Midwest Slavic Conference, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 15 April 2011.

2011 Presenter, “From Rum Millet to Greek and Bulgarian Nations: Religious and National Debates in the Borderlands of the , 1870-1913,” Panel Navigating Religious and Secular Identities in the (Post-)Ottoman Balkans, National Convention of the American Historical Association, Boston, 6 January 2011.

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2010 Participant, Roundtable “Re-Writing East-Central European History since 1700,” 42nd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, 20 November 2010.

2010 Organizer and Presenter, “To Stay or To Go: Individuals’ Choices in the Voluntary Population Exchange between Bulgaria and Greece, 1919-1931,” Panel People on the Move: Migration, Citizenship and Belonging in Twentieth-Century Eastern Europe, 42nd Annual Convention of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, Los Angeles, 19 November 2010.

2010 Discussant, Panel Perspectives of 20th Century Migration Policy, Policy History Conference, Columbus, 6 June 2010.

2010 Organizer and Presenter, “Unmixing the Ottoman Borderlands: Early Prototypes of Population Exchange in the Balkans,” Panel Forced Population Movements in Eastern Europe from the Balkan Wars to World War II, 15th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, 15-17 April 2010.

2009 Organizer and Presenter, “Minority Controversies across the Bulgarian-Greek Border: Population Exchange, Minority Rights, and Definitions of Minorities in the Interwar Balkans,” Panel Minority Debates in Twentieth-Century Europe, East and West, National Convention of the American Historical Association, 3 January 2009.

2008 Presenter, “On ‘Strategic Frontiers’: Debating the Borders of the Post-World War II Balkans,” Panel Moving Borders and People: World War Two in Eastern Europe, National Convention of the AAASS, Philadelphia, 22 November 2008.

2008 Chair and Discussant, Panel Socialist Bulgaria, Midwest Slavic Conference, Columbus, April 2008.

2007 Discussant, Panel Axis Anxiety: New Approaches to War Experience among Germany's East European Allies, National Convention of the AAASS, New Orleans, November 2007.

2006 Organizer and Presenter, “Shifting Borders, Shifting Identities: The Wartime National Encounter of Bulgarians and Greeks, 1912-1918,” Panel National Policies, Private Identities, and the Experience of War in Eastern and Central Europe, 1912-1920, 11th Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, New York, March 2006.

2005 Presenter, “Nationality and Emigration in the Balkans: Lessons from the Bulgarian-Greek Case,” Junior Scholars’ Training Seminar, The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the American Council of Learned Societies, August 2005.

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2003 Organizer and Presenter, “National Identity as Emergency Identity in the Greek- Bulgarian Population Movements, 1906-1941,” Panel Eastern European History as Migration History: Three Comparative Cases, 35th National Convention of the AAASS, Toronto, Canada, November 2003.

2002 Presenter, “The Voluntary and Reciprocal Population Exchange between Bulgaria and Greece in the Interwar Period: Some Issues of Interpretive Reciprocity.” International Conference History Migration-Anthropology: New Perspectives on European Migration and Migration History, University of Erfurt, Germany, November 2002.

2002 Presenter, Dissertation Project Presentation, Panel Migratory Subjects and Identifications, SSRC ACLS International Dissertation Field Research Fellows Workshop, Austin, Texas, October 2002.

2002 Presenter, “Writing the Nation: The Rhetoric of Minority and Refugee Experience in the Greek and Bulgarian National Discourses,” Fourth Annual Socrates Kokkalis Graduate Student Workshop, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, February 2002.

2001 Presenter, “Between Two Motherlands: Changing Memories of the Past within the Greek Bulgarian Minority and Refugee Communities, 1906-1939,” International Conference Voice or Exit: Comparative Perspectives on Ethnic Minorities in Twentieth-Century Europe, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, June 2001.

2001 Presenter, Dissertation Project Presentation, Junior Scholar Workshop “New Doctoral Research on the History of Southeastern Europe,” Dubrovnik, Croatia, July 2001.

2000 Presenter, “Changing Memories of the Past: The Greek Refugees from Bulgaria in the Interwar Period,” Joint Princeton-Columbia Graduate Student Workshop on National Identity and Public Policy in Comparative Perspective, Princeton University, September 2000. ______CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY TALKS

2018 Presenter, “Interdisciplinarity in Action: Collaborative Projects in the Arts and Humanities at Ohio State and Beyond,” The Ohio State University, 30 November 2018.

2018 Presenter, “The Balkans: Between Empires, States, and Nations,” Lifelong Learning Institute, Central Ohio Technical College, 2 October 2018.

2018 Moderator, Conference “Hagia Sophia in the Long 19th Century,” College of Arts and Sciences, The Ohio State University, 15 September 2018.

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2017 Organizer and presenter, “Interdisciplinary workshop of research methodologies of mobility and migration,” The Global Mobility Project at Ohio State, 14 November 2017.

2017 Presenter, “Using Digital Primary Sources in Teaching,” roundtable with History Department and Thompson Library representatives, 22 March 2017.

2017 Organizer and presenter, “Global Bexley: Making a Home in Ohio,” Bexley Public Library, 16 February 2017.

2016 Presenter, “Globalization and Mobility: Immigration and the Crisis of Identity in the West,” lecture and discussion with Honors and Scholars students, Taylor Tower Residence Hall, 1 December 2016.

2016 Presenter, “Undergraduate Research Forum - Recipe for Success: Basic Ingredients for Undergraduate Research,” Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, 14 November 2016.

2016 Presenter, “People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe,” lecture and discussion with International Affairs Scholars, Taylor Tower Residence Hall, 12 April 2016.

2016 Presenter, “People on the Move: The Refugee Crisis in Europe from Historical Perspective,” Department of History and Honors College, The Ohio State University, 22 February 2016.

2015 Presenter and Organizer, Panel The Refugee Crisis in Europe: The View from Southeast and Central Europe, Mershon Center for International Security Studies, The Ohio State University, 26 October 2015.

2015 Presenter, “The Refugee Crisis in Europe from Historical Perspective,” Bexley Public Library, 15 October 2015.

2015 Presenter, “Building Walls, Smuggling Refugees: The Refugee Crisis in the Balkans and Europe from Historical Perspective,” Lakeland Community College, Cleveland, Ohio, 25 September 2015.

2014 Discussant, Victor Lieberman, “Was Nationalism European? Political Ethnicity in Asia and Europe, 1400-1830,” Center for Historical Research presentation, Department of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 5 December 2014.

2013 Presenter, “A Comparative Conversation about Transnational History,” The Race, Ethnicity, and Nation Constellation, Department of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1 November 2013.

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2013 Presenter, “New Research on Nation and Nationalism in Eastern Europe,” guest lecture in the graduate seminar taught by Prof. Jennifer Suchland, Slavic and Eastern European Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 21 October 2013.

2013 Presenter, “The Balkans: A Brief Historical Introduction,” Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Studies of Culture, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 16 September 2013.

2012 Discussant, “A Comparative Conversation about Race,” Race, Ethnicity, and Nation Constellation, History Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 23 October 2012.

2012 Presenter, “Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria,” lecture in Modern Greek 2367, Department of Greek and Latin, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 18 October 2012.

2012 Presenter, “New Research on Nation and Nationalism in Eastern Europe,” lecture in Slavic 6501, The Slavic and East European Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 15 October 2012.

2012 Keynote presenter, “Ohio in the Middle: Bulgaria, the United States, and Cultural Diplomacy during the Cold War,” 34th Annual Januarius MacGahan Festival, New Lexington, Ohio, 9 June 2012.

2012 Presenter, Screening the digital story “In Between” for the International Day for Sharing Life Stories, Ohio State University’s Digital Storytelling Program, Thompson Library, Columbus, 16 March 2012.

2012 Presenter, “Capital Cities in the Aftermath of Empire: Sofia and Athens Compared,” Cleo Society, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 19 May 2012.

2012 Discussant, "So You Want to Write a Western Civ. Textbook?", Cookies and Conversation Series, History Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 3 April 2012.

2012 Co-organizer and Presenter, “A Comparative Conversation about Citizenship,” The Race, Ethnicity, and Nation Constellation, Department of History, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 1 March 2012.

2011 Presenter, “Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria,” Cookies and Conversation Series, History Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 15 May 2011.

2011 Participant, Roundtable on New Books in the History Department, The Ohio State University, Columbus, 7 April 2011.

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2007 Presenter, “Challenging Narratives of the Nation: New Research on Nation-Building in Eastern Europe,” lecture in Slavic 700, Slavic and East European Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, November 2007.

______MASS MEDIA PRESENTATIONS

2017 Participation in a documentary film featuring four Bulgarian professors at Ohio State University, Bulgarian International Television, Chicago, Illinois, 8 November 2017. URL: http://www.bitelevision.com/golyamoto-intervyu-balgarskiyat-prinos-v- svetovnata-nauka-misiya-na-chetirima-profesori-v-ohajo/

2016 Podcast interviewer, The Global Mobility Project, Pilot Project of the Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme. URL: https://u.osu.edu/globalmobility/podcast/

2016 Interviews with Bulgarian International Television, Chicago, Illinois (9 November 2016) and Radio Fokus, Sofia, Bulgaria (7 December 2016).

2015 Interviews for “E-misia Bulgaria” and “The News with Ralitsa Vassileva,” Bulgarian International Television, Chicago, Illinois, 7 and 23 October 2015.

2014 “Neobichajni kontakti prez Studenata vojna” (Unlikely Cold War Encounters), interview on “The Day Begins with Culture,” Bulgarian National TV, 16 April 2014. URL: http://bnt.bg/part-of-show/neobichajni-kontakti-prez-studenata-vojna

2014 “Kak Balgariia pravi kulturna propaganda v Amerika prez Studenata vojna” (How Bulgaria engaged in cultural propaganda in the USA during the Cold War), interview on “The Day Begins,” the morning show on the Bulgarian National TV, 11 April 2014. URL: http://bnt.bg/part-of-show/kak-ba-lgariya-pravi-kulturna-propaganda-v-amerika- prez-studenata-vojna

2014 “Neobuchajni kontakti prez Studenata vojna: Kulturnoto pronikvane na Balgariia v Saedinenite Sthati prez Studenana vojna” (Unlikely Cold War Encounters: The Bulgarian Cultural Offensive in the USA during the Cold War), interview on the Bulgarian National Radio Horizont, Morning Bloc, 10 April 2014. URL: http://bnr.bg/horizont/post/100396069/neobichaini-kontakti-prez-studenata-voina- balgarskoto-kulturno-pronikvane-v-sasht-prez-70-te-i-80-te-godini-na-20-ti-vek

2012 Reporting from Columbus, Ohio, in anticipation of the Januarius MacGahan festival in New Lexington, Ohio, 9 June 2012. Radio Tatkovina, 7 June 2012. URL: http://www.tatkovina.com/correspondentnews&id=363

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______CONFERENCE ORGANIZATION

2019 “Moving Subjects: Migration, Mobility, and Immobility Week,” Global Arts & Humanities Discovery Theme, The Ohio State University, 14-19 October 2019 (in progress).

2016 Workshop “Iron Curtain Crossings: Eastern Europe and the Global Cold War,” The Ohio State University, 4-5 March 2016.

2014 International Conference “Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from South Asia and the Balkans” (Co-organizer), The Ohio State University, 9-11 October 2014.

2013 Graduate Student Conference “Race, Ethnicity, and Nation in Comparative Perspective,” (Co-organizer), Department of History, The Ohio State University, 19 April 2013.

2011 International Conference “Beyond Mosque, Church, and State: Negotiating Religious and Ethno-National Identities in the Balkans” (Co-organizer), The Ohio State University, Columbus, 6-8 October 2011. ______TEACHING EXPERIENCE

The Ohio State University, 2007-present Undergraduate: Europe since 1950 (new class, Autumn 2018) People on the Move: Migration in Modern Europe (new class, Spring 2016) Empires and Nations in Eastern Europe, 1500-present Modern European History, 1789-present Eastern Europe in the Nineteenth Century Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century Displaced Persons in Eastern Europe (seminar) Communism in Eastern Europe (seminar) Migration in Modern Europe (seminar) Global Mobility and Migration (new seminar, Autumn 2017)

Graduate: Readings in Eastern European History Twentieth-Century Europe: Migration and Displacement Eastern Europe: Transnational Approaches Comparative State and Nation-Building in Modern Europe Communism in Eastern Europe Nationalism in Eastern Europe

Auburn University, 2006-2007 World History until 1800

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World History since 1800 Islam and the Ottoman Empire

Gainesville State College, Spring 2006 (instructor) World History since 1500

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2002-2003 (graduate teaching assistant) Western Civilization until 1660 Western Civilization until 1660 (writing intensive class)

University of Florida, 1998-2001 (graduate teaching assistant) Cops and Robbers: Social History of Crime, 1700-1914 European History 1763-1848 Western Civilization since 1789 The History of the Holocaust Russian History until 1956 (grader) US History until 1877 (grader) ______ADVISING

• Doctoral students – dissertation advisor

Christopher Kinley, major field (Modern Eastern Europe) and dissertation advisor (2016-). Major grants and awards: FLAS Fellowship; Fulbright Fellowship

Brenna Miller, Major field (Modern Eastern Europe) and dissertation advisor (2010-present) Dissertation title: “Secularizing Bosnian Muslim Identity: Intellectuals between State and Society in Tito’s Yugoslavia” (defended May 2018) Major grants and awards: FLAS Fellowship; IREX Research Grant; American Council Grant Positions: Postdoctoral teaching fellow, Washington State University, 2018-2020

Kirsten Hildonen, Major field (Modern Eastern Europe) and dissertation advisor (2009-present) Dissertation title: “Belgrade at War: Everyday Life under German Occupation in World War II” (defense pending) Major grants and awards: FLAS Fellowship; Fulbright-Hays Fellowship Positions: Museum educator, New Hampshire Historical Society

• Doctoral students – dissertation committee member

Szabolcs László (History, Indiana University), Dissertation Committee member, “Transcending the Cold War: Cultural and Scholarly Relations between Hungary and the U.S. (1960-1989)”

Sara Craycraft (Folklore/Comparative Studies), “Reinventing the Village: Traditional Culture and Rural Reinvestment in Contemporary Bulgaria”

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Sara Halpern (History), Dissertation Committee member, “Good-Bye, Shanghai!: The Emigration of European Jewish Families, 1945-1951”

Sanja Kadric (History), Dissertation Committee member, “Ottoman Bosnia and Hercegovina: Islamization, Ottomanization, and Origin Myths” (defended March 2018) Positions: Lecturer, The Ohio State University

Catalina Hunt (History), Dissertation Committee member “Changing Identities at the Fringes of the Late Ottoman Empire: The Muslims of Dobruca, 1838-1914” (defended 2015) Positions: Visiting Assistant Professor, Denison University and Franklin & Marshall College; Visiting Scholar, Franklin & Marshall College, Kenyon College

Ian Lanzillotti (History), Dissertation Committee member, “Imperial Integration, Nation Building and Interethnic Relations in the Tsarist and Soviet Caucasus: Kabardino-Balkaria, 1822-1991” (defended 2014) Positions: Assistant Professor, History Department, Tennessee Wesleyan University

Suny Rucker-Chang (Slavic), Dissertation Committee member, “Cultural Formation in Post- Yugoslav Serbia: Divides, Debates, and Dialogues” (defended 2010_ Positions: Assistant Professor of Slavic, Florida State University; Assistant Professor of Slavic and Director, Center for European Studies, University of Cincinnati

• Doctoral students – candidacy exam advisor

Sara Craycraft, minor field advisor for an exam in the Department for Comparative Studies, Spring 2019 (Contemporary Eastern Europe)

Pietro Shakarian, minor filed advisor, Spring 2018 (Modern European history)

Darcy Benson, minor field advisor, Autumn 2017 (Race, Ethnicity, and Nation)

Devon Collins, minor field advisor, Spring 2017 (Race, Ethnicity, and Nation)

Nikki Henry, minor field advisor, Spring 2017 (Modern Eastern Europe)

Lauren Henry, minor field advisor, Spring 2013 (Comparative Nationalism)

Sanja Kadric, minor field advisor, Spring 2013 (Modern Eastern Europe)

Catalina Hunt, minor field advisor, Autumn 2010 (Modern Eastern Europe)

• MA theses and exams

MA thesis committee chair, Conrad Rinto, “The Integration of Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons in Postwar Serbia” (December 2017)

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MA exam committee member, Patrick Rousch, “Comparative Nationalism” (summer 2017)

MA thesis committee chair, Justin Ciucevich, “Honor among Thieves: The Negotiation of the in Ceaușescu’s Romania, 1968-1982” (April 2017)

MA exam committee chair, Christopher Guerrini, “Bosnia in historical perspective” (Dec. 2016)

MA thesis committee member, Hannah Steward, “The Burden of History and the Search for Truth: Polish-Russian Television News Narratives in the Wake of Smolensk” (2016)

MA thesis committee member, Shannon MacAfee, “Global Positioning Semantics: President Karimov’s Evolving Definitions of the Uzbek Nation’s Rightful Place in the World” (2011)

MA thesis committee member, Lisa Goddard, “Georgian Opposition to Soviet Rule (1956-1989) and the Causes of Resentment between Georgia and Russia” (2011)

MA thesis committee member, Shannon Potter, “The Influence of Western Powers on Central and Eastern European Minority Protection Policy: The League of Nations Minorities Treaties and the EU Copenhagen Criteria” (2010)

• Honors theses and undergraduate advising

Senior honors thesis defense committee member, George Andrei, “Ethnic Politics and the Saxon Colonization of Medieval Hungarian Transylvania,” (2018)

Senior honors thesis defense committee member, Eddie Zitnik, “Embodied Rape: Ethnicity and Gender in the Prosecution of Wartime Rape in Former Yugoslavia” (2014)

Senior honors thesis defense committee member, Adam Wanter “Polish nationalism in the twentieth century” (2012)

Senior honors thesis defense committee member, Jeffrey Mixter, “Violence, Politics and Culture in the Weimar Era – The Second Kulturkampf?” (2010)

Senior honors thesis advisor, David Roth, “Sending Mixed Signals: Rhetoric versus Actions in the United Stated Involvement in the Prague Spring of 1968” (2010)

Research Advisor, Anait Grigoryan, Sydney N. Fisher Prize for the best research paper written by a history major (2008)

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PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Anonymous reviewer for The MacArthur Foundation

Grant application reviewer for The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) The American Councils for International Education ACTR/ACCELS The U.S. Fulbright Student Program

Article manuscript reviewer for Slavic Review East European Politics and Societies Journal of Contemporary History Peace Research War in History Women’s Studies International Forum Nationalities Papers European Sociological Review Journal of Modern Greek Studies Russian Review

Book manuscript reviewer for Oxford University Press Indiana University Press Central European University Press Palgrave McMillan Bloomsbury Publishing Brill - Balkan Studies Library

Book proposal reviewer, SAGE publications

Tenure and promotion reviewer for Simon Fraser University Havenfort College Old Dominion University Northwestern University Buffalo State College ______DEPARTMENT AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

College and University service 2019 Member, Research and Creative Expression Strategic Planning Committee, Arts & Humanities Workgroup, Office of Research 2018-2019 MA Program Committee, Center for Slavic and East European Studies

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2018 Facilitator, Indigenous Arts & Humanities, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 2018 Member, Director Search Committee, Center for Slavic and East European Studies 2018-2020 Member, Advisory Committee, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 2018-2020 Member, Leadership Team, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 2018-2020 Team Leader, Migration, Mobility and Immobility Project, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 2018-2020 Faculty Fellow, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 2018 Conceptual Team, Im/Mobility focus area, Global Arts + Humanities Discovery Theme 2016-2018 Steering Committee, The Global Mobility Project, Pilot Project of the Humanities & Arts Discovery Theme 2017 Academic Enrichment Grant Committee, Office of International Affairs 2017 FLAS Graduate Fellowship Committee, Center for Slavic and East European Studies 2015~ Advisory Board, Center for Slavic and East European Studies 2015-2016 MA Program Committee, Center for Slavic and East European Studies 2013 Chair, Postdoctoral Hiring Committee, Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures 2012-2014 Steering Committee, Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures 2014 Fulbright Student Program Reviewer 2010-2011 FLAS Undergraduate Fellowship Committee, Center for Slavic and East European Studies 2008 FLAS Fellowship Committee, Center for Slavic and East European Studies

Department service 2018-2019 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2017-2018 US-Latin American Immigration History Search Committee 2017-2018 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2017 Chair, Ad Hoc Partner Hire Committee 2016-2017 Chair’s Advisory Committee (elected) 2016-2017 Salary Advisory Committee 2016-2017 U.S. Diplomatic/International/Transnational History Search Committee 2015-2016 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2014 Awards and Prizes Committee 2013-2014 Dunn Chair in Modern Military History Search Committee 2012-2014 Co-chair, Russian, East European, and Eurasian History Seminar 2012-2014 Promotion and Tenure Committee 2012~ Screening Committee, Race, Ethnicity, and Nation (REN) Constellation 2010-2012 Co-founder and co-chair, Race, Ethnicity, and Nation (REN) Constellation 2011-2012 Ad Hoc Hire Committee 2011-2012 Workplace Climate Committee 2010-2011 Salary Advisory Committee 2010-2012 Chair’s Advisory Committee (elected)

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2010-2011 Coordinator, Modern European field website 2010 Diversity Committee 2009-2019 Center for Historical Research Program Committee 2007-2008 Undergraduate Teaching Committee

______PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

American Historical Association Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Bulgarian Studies Association Modern Greek Studies Association Association of Women in Slavic Studies ______LANGUAGES

English; Bulgarian; Modern Greek; Russian; French Basic knowledge of Latin, Ancient Greek, and Old Church Slavonic