Theodora Dragostinova Department of History Phone: 614-292-1602 The Ohio 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 Greek Language Center, University of Athens, Greece 1991 Undergraduate studies, Department of History, University of Sofia, Bulgaria, 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 Greeks 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 Theodora Dragostinova Page 2 of 23 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 Bulgarians: 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, Theodora Dragostinova Page 3 of 23 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/ Theodora Dragostinova Page 4 of 23 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 Macedonia, 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 Theodora Dragostinova Page 5 of 23 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,