Apr. 1, 2008 MARIA M. STOILKOVA

Assistant Professor Department of Center for European Studies 3345 Turlington Hall Gainesville, FL 32611

[email protected] (352) 392-8902, Ext. 211

EDUCATION 2004 Ph.D. University of California, at Berkeley Socio-Cultural Anthropology Dissertation: Exiles at Home and Abroad: The Bulgarian Intelligentsia in Emigration Ph.D. Committee: Alexei Yurchak (Chair), Aihwa Ong, Donald Moore, Gil Eyal 1998 M.A. University of California, at Berkeley Anthropology 1997 M.A. Central European University (Poland) (Degree co-validated by The Lancaster University (UK) , Studies of and Society 1996 B.A., M.A. Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” (Bulgaria) Slavic and European Studies

PAST APPOINTMENTS 2006 Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology Department / The Harriman Institute Columbia University 2006 Social Scientist Consultant The World Bank Group 2005 Visiting Lecturer, Anthropology Department / The Harriman Institute Columbia University 2004 Postdoctoral Fellow, The Harriman Institute Columbia University

AREAS OF RESEARCH AND TRAINING

Globalization and International Migration; Transnationalism, Citizenship and the Politics of Belonging; Studies of Social Reproduction; Postsocialist Studies, Eastern Europe

AWARDS / FELLOWSHIPS / GRANTS

The Harriman Institute Postdoctoral Fellowship, Columbia University, 2005 Global Supplementary Grant, Open Society Institute, NY, 1997, 2002 Departmental Block Grant, UC Berkeley, 1998, 1999, 2002 Dissertation writing grant. Berkeley Program in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 2002 Global Supplementary Grant, Open Society Institute, NY, 2001

1 John L. Simpson Memorial Research Fellowship in International and Comparative Studies, Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley, 2000 Pre-dissertation Grant. Berkeley Post-Soviet in Soviet and Post-Soviet Studies, 2000 Pre-dissertation Fellowship, Center for German and European Studies, UC Berkeley, 1999 Humanities Research Grant, UC Berkeley, 1998 Fleishacker, M Grant, UC Berkeley, 1998

PUBLICATIONS 2007. “International Migration and Commuting in Central Europe and the Baltic Region”. Paci P, Tiongson E, Walewski M, Liwiński J, Stoilkova M. World Bank Working Papers. 2006. Research collaborator, Migration and Remittances. Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Co- author. A. Mansoor and B. Quillin (Eds). Europe and Central Asia Region. The World Bank. 2006. “To America and Back: Migration and Social Mobility in an Ethically Acceptable Way.” In: The Bulgarian Migrations. Soultavova, R (Ed.) Ivar Publishing & IMIR [In Bulgarian] 2005. “Migration: Risk or Opportunity” Foreign Policy [available also in Bulgarian] 2005. “A Quest for Belonging: The Bulgarian Demographic Crisis, Emigration, and the Postsocialist Generations.” In: Barren States: The Population Imposition in Europe. Carrie Douglass (Ed.). Berg Publishers 2003. “A New Generation of the Bulgarian Transition: in Search of a “Brighter Future.” In: R. Stryker and J. Patico (Eds.). The Paradoxes of Progress: Globalization and Postsocialist Cultures. Kroeber Anthropological Society Papers, No. 86 2001. “Exiles at Home and Abroad: The Bulgarian Intelligentsia in Emigration.” In: Center for Slavic and Eastern European Studies, Newsletter, Vol. 18, N.2

IN PROGRESS 2008. “The Permutations of Bulgarian Citizenship” Submitted to International Migration Review Book manuscript: “Building an Enabling Nation. Migration and Citizenship in Postsocialist Bulgaria” “Migration Risk or Opportunity? Surveys on Return Migrants in Five Countries (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Romania, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, and Tajikistan)” “Gendering the New Membership: Bulgarian Women and the European Union”

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2007 Assistant Professor Migration in the Neoliberal Age; Anthropology of Migration and Trafficking; Anthropology of Eastern Europe and Postsocialism 2006 Visiting Lecturer Migrant Dreams and Realities: Anthropology of Migration and Globalization, undergraduate seminar (taught twice with different curricula as a graduate seminar as well) 2005 Visiting Lecturer Of Mimicry and Membership: Anthropology of Eastern Europe, graduate seminar Department of Anthropology, Columbia University 1998-2003 Teaching Assistant, Introduction to Socio-cultural Anthropology Upper-division undergraduate course, Department of Anthropology, UC Berkeley 2002 Teaching Assistant, Russia After Communism Upper division undergraduate course, Department of Political Science, UC Berkeley

2 RESEARCH PROJECTS

2008 The transformation of intimacy and citizenship in the “New” Europe. Collaborative interdisciplinary project based on a grant proposal to be submitted to Wenner-Gren Foundation 2006 Social Scientist Consultant, The World Bank Group. Europe and Central Asia Region. Projects: Geographic Mobility in the EU New Member States. Field work in Bulgaria (summer of 2004) 2004 Social Scientist Consultant, The World Bank Group. Social Development. Project title: Human Trafficking in South Eastern Europe; Migration Management in EU 2002-2003 Dissertation Research on Eastern European migration of professionals to the US 2001 Co-author of Program for Youth Development. Joint-project by the Nova BGeneracya (a non-profit organization of Bulgarian professionals in the U.S.) used as a political platform in the election campaign of the Bulgarian President Petar Stoyanov, available on line at: http://www.novabg.com. (In Bulgarian)

LANGUAGES Bulgarian, English, Russian, Polish

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS American Anthropological Association, member American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, member Soyuz, The Research Network for Postsocialist Studies, member Dobro Slovo, the National Slavic Honor Society, member

INVITED PRESENTATIONS, PAPERS AND PANELS 2008 Paper presented at ASN, Columbia University, “The Permutations of Bulgarian Citizenship,” New York 2008 Invited Lecture. Migration: The Hidden of Europe, UF 2007 Paper presented at the AAA “Negotiating National Belonging in Postsocialist Bulgaria”, Washington DC 2007 Invited Lecture. Migration, Globalization and the “New Europe,” Teachers Forum, UF, Gainesville 2006 Foreign Policy forum, presentation: Migration: Risk or Opportunity 2005 Presentation: Survey Data on New Migrant Movement in Romania, Georgia, Uzbekistan, Tadzikistan and Bulgaria, World Bank, Washington DC 2005 Invited lecture, Human Trafficking in Eastern Europe, Department of Social Work, Columbia University 2004 Invited lecture, Social Reproduction and the Politics of Emigration in Bulgaria. The Harriman Institute Lecture Series, Columbia University 2003 Invited lecture, Knowledge Production and the Skirmish between “Eastern” Ethnologie and “Western”Anthropology, History Department, Sofia University, Bulgaria 2005 Negotiating National Belonging: Citizenship and Migration in Bulgaria. ASN Convention, Columbia University 2004 The Life of the Body National under Question: Declining Birthrates and Hushed Discontent in Bulgaria, Soyuz Symposium, “Memory and the Present in Postsocialist Cultures,” Reed College, Portland Oregon

3 2002 Conference organizer and discussant, Power and Power Relations in East European Politics and Society, UC Berkeley. Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, UC Berkeley in association with The School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College, UK 2002 Summit co-organizer and presenter, Nova BGeneraciya Sheraton Hotel, Sofia Bulgaria. Meeting of leaders of Bulgarian immigrant organizations in the U.S. and members of the Bulgaria government, members of Bulgarian NGOs and representatives of Bulgarian Business organizations 2001 A Quest for Belonging: Bulgarian Emigration Crisis. American Anthropological Meetings, Washington DC 2001 Civil Society in Exile: Some Thoughts on the development of civil society in the post-socialist world. Association for the Studies of Nationalities. “Nation-Making Past and Present: Community, Economy, Security.” Columbia University 2001 A New Generation of Bulgarian Transition. Soyuz Symposium, From the Internationale to the Transitional: Repositioning Postsocialist Cultures. UC Berkeley

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