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May 30, 2008
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

The topic of research is the change of the Bulgarian political elite due to the transition from communist to post-communist society. I examine the patterns and mechanisms of elite change from...

May 30, 2008
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

My project examines the complexities and paradoxes in the functioning of the Bulgarian film industry during 1945-1989.

May 30, 2008
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

This project is an attempt to determine how well the banking system performs the functions summarized by Levine by interviewing a large spectrum of bank and government officials in Bulgaria...

May 30, 2008
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

This report will be divided into two sections. The first section will provide a summary of my research findings concerning the broad topic of population movements and the spread of disease...

July 30, 2007
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

This research examines the economic, legal, and political framework within which the Bulgarian telecommunications sector developed from 1989 to roughly the present.

July 30, 2007
Short-Term Travel Grants (STG)

The purpose of this research project is to examine significant social and physical characteristics of the suburbs that have developed around the Bulgarian capital Sofia since 1989.

August 24, 2006
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

In a broader sense, the dissertation asks why some countries across regions are better able to implement a liberal economic reform agenda; and secondly, why do we see similar results in certain...

August 24, 2006
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

The topic of research is the formation of images of the future in Bulgaria and their role in informing and forming the public.

August 24, 2006
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

I explore the ways in which one Muslim rebel-turned-notable (Muslim notable = a‘yān), Kara Feyzi, and his social network negotiated power, prestige, piety and economic resources with...

August 24, 2006
Individual Advanced Research Opportunities (IARO)

I am doing an ethnographic study of Bulgarian Muslim men and women (Pomaks) and their negotiation with newly imported Islamic practices from the Arab countries and Iran.