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Dobrinka Parusheva

DParushevaDobrinka Dragieva Parusheva

Scientific degree and current position:
Doctor of Philosophy, Associated Professor

Areas of academic interest:
Modern and contemporary history of the Balkans (city and everyday life in the Balkans; political models; political elites); theory and history of culture (culture and caricature; cultural heritage and identity; visual culture).

Education and fellowships:
1990 PhD in History, Modern and Contemporary History of the Balkans - Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
1983 Master's degree in History - Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski'
1982 Bachelor's degree in German language - Sofia University 'St. Kliment Ohridski'


Participation in scholarly projects:
2018-2020 Between East and West: foreign patterns and national approaches in the socio-political development of Romania and Bulgaria in the 20th Century - joint project between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Romanian Academy. Project Manager: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Member of the project team.
2018-2019: Plovdiv Quarters TOGETHER - Virtual Portfolio (in connection with the Program Plovdiv 2019 - European Capital of Culture). Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Meglena Zlatkova, PhD. Member of the project team.
2017-2019 Balkans and the projects for Regional and European integration from the 19th Century to the present day. Project Manager: Prof. Alexandre Kostov, Dr. habil., Corresponding Member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Member of the project team.
2017-2018: Transforming Village, ФП17-ФИФ-014/25.04.2017, funded by the National Science Fund. Beneficiary: Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski'. Participant.
2015-2017: Politics and society in Bulgaria and Romania in the 20th Century. Bulgarian-Romanian joint project between the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the Romanian Academy. Participant.
2015-2016: Borders and social mobility (Project for Young Scientists МУ15 FIF009), funded by the National Science Fund. Beneficiary: Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski'. Participant.
2014-2016: Framing Financial Crisis and Protest: North-West and South-East Europe, финансиран от Leverhulme Trust, UK, Project leader Prof. Suman Gupta, Open University, UK; Project Manager of the Bulgarian Team.
2010-2013: Local Heritage - Resource for local development (ДДВУ 02/93 – 20.12.2010), funded by the National Science Fund and managed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Krasimira Krasanova (Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski'). Participant.
2007-2010: ESF EUROCORES Programme Inventing Europe: Technology and the Making of Europe, 1850 to the Present. Collaborative Research Project European Ways of Life in the 'American Century': Mediating Consumption and Technology in the Twentieth Century (EUWOL), project Leader: Professor Ruth Oldenziel, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands. Manager of the Bulgarian research group.
2005-2008: Bulgarian youth and social change in the period till the First World War (ОХН 1411), funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Alexandre Kostov (Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences). Participant.
ОУ-ОХН-13/2005: Public spaces of bulgarian city: heritage and development, funded by the Ministry of Education and Science. Project Manager: Assoc. Prof. Svetlana Hristova (South-West University 'Neofit Rilsk', Blagoevgrad). Participant.
2004-2007: Political culture and cultural policies in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1850-1950 - joint Bulgarian-British, funded by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the British Academy, UK. Project Manager of the Bulgarian Team.


Teaching:
2014 - Politics, culture, caricature - Training Centre to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
2019 - Balkan Modernity: pieces of a puzzle - Training Centre to the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (for Erasmus +)
2019 - Public History and national mythology - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History
2017 - History of the Balkan nations part two (19th-20th c.) - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History
2014 - Culture andcaricature - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History
2012 - Gender anthropology - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History
2011 - Economic anthropology - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History
2010 - Political models and political elites - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History
2008 - Areal research (Balkan studies) - Plovdiv University 'Paisii Hilendarski', Faculty of Philosophy and History


Selected publications:

Monographs:
Парушева, Д. Правителственият елит на Румъния и България, втората половина на XIX и началото на XX век. Социална история, София: Институт по балканистика – Българска акедемия на науките, 2008

Compilation:
Парушева, Д. (съст.) ЕТНО – ФОТО – ГРАФИЯ, тематичен брой на Българска етнология, 2019, 1
Кисикова, М. и Д. Парушева (съст.) Възможни и невъзможни терени на етнологията/ антропологията. Център за антропологични и етносоциологически изследвания, ПУ „Паисий Хилендарски“: Пловдив 2018
Parusheva, D. and L. Gergova (eds). The Ritual Year 8: MIGRATIONS. Paradigma, Sofia 2014
Парушева, Д. и М. Кисикова (съст.). Теренът: пространства и хора. Студентски етноложки срещи - Пловдив 2011, Пловдив: Университетско издателство "Паисий Хилендарски", 2011
Political Culture and Cultural Politics in Central and Southeastern Europe, 1850-1950 (Special Issue, Etudes balkaniques, 2008, 4), ed. by D. Parusheva.
И настъпи време за промяна: Образование и възпитание в България, XIX-XX век, съст. Александър Костов, Д. Парушева и Румяна Прешленова, София: Институт по балканистика – Българска академия на науките, 2008.
Александър Екзарх и българските пътища към Европа, XIX – началото на XX век, Стара Загора, 2007. / Alexandre Exarh et les routes bulgares vers Europe, XIXe – début du XХe siècle, texte établi par Georgi Valchev, Dobrinka Parusheva et Pierre Voillery, Stara Zagora 2007.

Papers and articles:
Parusheva, D. Uprisings, Revolutions and Wars: Visual Representations in Bulgarian Illustrated Press at the End of the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century. In: Stamatopoulos, D. (ed.) European Revolutions and the Ottoman Balkans: War, Nationalism and Empire from Napoleon to the Bolsheviks. London-New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019
La culture politique du café. In : Café Europe. Textes réunis par Raïa Zaïmova. Institut d’études balkaniques & Centre de thracologie : Sofia 2019, 79-87
In the Mirror of Satire: The End of World War I in Bulgarian Caricatures, Etudes balkaniques, 2019, 2, 249-277
Парушева, Д. Описание на образите – образи на описанието, Българска етнология, 2019, 1, 5-15
Парушева, Д. От Чорлу до Сирийската пустиня и обратно: един млад арменец през 1914-1918 г., в Петко Ст. Петков (съст.) Чрез миналото към бъдещето. Сборник в чест на проф. днк Маргарита Карамихова, Просвета: София 2018, 147-154
Парушева, Д. Да живееш (с) граници: Общности и общуване в Пловдив, в: Коцева, В. (съст.) Насоки в академичното изследване и преподаване по етнология и антропология. УК „Св. Климент Охридски“: София 2018, 156-164
Парушева, Д. Културно наследство и градска идентичност. Наследство и наследници в град Златоград, в Семинар_BG, бр. 16: Геният на мястото [https://www.seminar-bg.eu/spisanie-seminar-bg/broy16/item/525-kulturno-nasledstvo-i-gradska-identichnost.html] – 2018
Парушева, Д. Патрони и клиенти. Български примери и балкански паралели от края на XIX и началото на XX век. История, XXV, 6, Аз Буки (МОН), 2017, 600-612
Парушева, Д. От имперски към национален елит. Динамика на румънския и българския политически елит в края на XIX век, в Ролята на елитите в процесите на консолидирането на нациите и националното строителство [Известия на Института за исторически изследвания, т. XXXIV], София 2017, 320-334
Coping with Housing Crisis: Post-World Wars’ Experience in Bulgaria, Etudes balkaniques, 2017/4, 689-704
D. Parusheva. From Chorlu to the Syrian Desert and back: Experience of a Young Armenian in 1914-1918, Ethnologia Balkanica 19, 2016, 277-290.
Д. Парушева. "Всичките са маскари!" Политика, култура и карикатура, в М. Златкова (съст.), След следващата запетая, Пловдив 2015, 215-228.
Д. Парушева. Общество, технология и култура, или как България се среща с модерността, в Д. Лилова (съст.) Природни науки, технологии и социални светове, София: Рива / Център за академични изследвания, 2015, 187-206.
Д. Парушева. Културното наследство и културните политики в България между локалното и глобалното, в Л. Пейчева и др. (съст.) Дни на наследството 2013, БАН - ИЕФЕМ: София, 2014, 65-73.
Д. Парушева. Светлина върху войната. Визуално представяне на войната и насилието в българската илюстрована преса, края на XIX и началото на ХХ век, Българска етнология, 2014, 3, 275-298.
Д. Парушева. Балкански граници: пространство за историята, в Ив. Първев и М. Баръмова (съст.), Двувековният път на едно понятие: "Балканският полуостров" (1808-2008), УИ "Св. Климент Охридски", София 2014, 123-132.
D. Parusheva. Bulgarians Gazing at the Balkans: Neighboring People in Bulgarian Political Caricature at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century, in D. Demski, Il. Sz. Kristof and K. Baraniecka-Olszewska (eds), Competing Eyes: Visual Encounters with Alterity in Central and Eastern Europe, L'Harmattan, Budapest 2013, 418-437.
D. Parusheva. Make It Do with What System Provides. People, State and Housing in Bulgaria, End of the 19th and Early 20th Century, in Social Transformation and Mass Mobilization in the Balkan and Eastern Mediterranean Cities (1900-1923), ed. by Hr. Hadziiossif and A. Lyberatos, Rethimno: Crete University Press, 2013, 85-99.
D. Parusheva. "We Are All Members of the Same Club": Bulgarian Political Elite and Their Networks in Early 20th Century, Bulgarian Historical Review, 2012, 3-4, 62-72.
D. Parusheva. Maria Luisa in Bulgaria: The Image of the Princess in Contemporary Memoirs, Etudes balkaniques, 2012, 2-3, 97-111.
Д. Парушева. Мария-Луиза в България: образът на княгинята в спомените на съвременниците, в Италия, България и Балканите (1870-1918), съст. Ал. Костов и П. Данова, София: ИБЦТ, 2012, 91-104.
Д. Парушева. Територии – икономика – култура, в Локалното наследство – ресурс за местно развитие, ЦАЕСИ: Пловдив, 2012, 19-28.
D. Parusheva. The Web of Power and Power of the Webs: Political Elites in Romania and Bulgaria in the Late Nineteenth Century and Their Network”, in Society and Politics in South-Eastern Europe during the 19th century, ed. by Nathalie Clayer and Tassos Anastassiadis, Athens: Alpha Bank Historical Archives, 2011, 141-176.
D. Parusheva. Bulgaria, in Atlas of European Historiography. The Making of a Profession, 1800-2005, ed. by Ilaria Porciani and Lutz Raphael, Basingstoke (UK): Palgrave Macmillan, 2010, 95-97.
D. Parusheva and Il. Marcheva. Housing in Socialist Bulgaria: Appropriating Tradition, Home Cultures [Berg Publishers], 7 (2010), 2, 197-216.
D. Parusheva, Il. Marcheva and M. Zlatkova. Tinkering in Daily Life: People, State and Social(ist) Housing in Bulgaria, Etudes balkaniques, 2010, 3, 69-91.
D. Parusheva. Europe Imagined and Performеd: The Impact of Western Europe’s Modernity on South East European Urban Space, in Städte im europäischen Raum. Verkehr, Kommunikation und Urbanität im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Ralf Roth (Hg.), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009, 187-204.
D. Parusheva. ‘They Are All Rotters!’ Political Culture and Political Caricature in the Balkans, Late 19th and Early 20th Century, Etudes balkaniques, 2008, 4, 37-63.
Д. Парушева. Новото поколение в българския политически елит в края на XIX век: Млади, образовани в “Европа”, в И настъпи време за промяна: Образование и възпитание в България през XIX и XX век, съст. Александър Костов, Добринка Парушева и Румяна Прешленова, София: Институт по блаканистика – Българска академия на науките, 2008, 156-170.
Д. Парушева. Политическата култура на кафето, в Кафене “Европа”, съст. Рая Заимова, София: Издателство “Дамян Яков”, 2007, 80-87.
D. Parusheva. Gesellschaft, Technologie und Kultur, or wie Bulgarien auf die Moderne trifft, in Transformationsprobleme Bulgariens im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Historische und ethnologische Perspektiven, U. Brunnbauer und W. Hoepken (Hg.), Muenchen: Verlag Otto Sagner, 2007, 17-33.
D. Parusheva. Running ‘Modern’ Cities in a Patriarchal Milieu: Perspectives from the Nineteenth-Century Вalkans, in Who Ran the Cities? City Elites and Urban Power Structures in Europe and North America, 1750-1940, ed. by Ralf Roth and Robert Beachy, Ashgate, 2007, 179-192.
Д. Парушева. Българският политически елит през 19 век: без князе и екзарси, или през “Европа” до България. Балкански паралели, в Александър Екзарх и българските пътища към Европа, XIX – началото на XX век, съст. Г. Вълчев, Д. Парушева и П. Воалери, Стара Загора, 2007, 116-125 / L’élite politique en Bulgaire pendant le XIXe siècle: sans orinces ni ezarques, a travers “L’Europe” jusqu’en Bulgarie. Parallèles balkaniques, Alexandre Exarh et les routes bulgares vers Europe, XIXe – début du Xxe siècle, texte établi par G. Valchev, D. Parusheva et P. Voillery, Stara Zagora 2007, 112-121.
D. Parusheva. Women and War in the Balkans: Unaccommodated Difference and (Some of) Its Scapegoats, in Forced Еthnic Migrations on the Balkans: Consequences and Rebuilding of Societies, Sofia: IMIR and Meiji University Tokio, 2006, 185-197.
Д. Парушева. Българската политическа карикатура в началото на 20 век: Образът на съседа, в Юбилеен сборник. Изследвания в чест на 80-годишнината на проф. Кръстю Манчев, София: Парадигма, 2006, 297-316.

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