Assistant Professor Boriana Antonova-Goleva
13.02.1986, Sofia
е-mail: b(dot)antonova(dot)goleva(at)ihist(dot)bas(dot)bg; b(dot)antonova(dot)goleva(at)gmail(dot)com
Orcid ID: 0000-0003-0303-9720
Scopus ID: 58421045700
Web of Science ID: AGH-3265-2022
1. MAIN FIELDS OF RESEARCH
History of the Bulgarian National Revival Period История, History of the Ottoman Empire, capitalism, moderntechnologies and communications during the 19th century
2. ACADEMIC COMPETENCIES AND CAREER
Education
01.02.2012 – 20.06.2016
PhD in History Faculty of History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
01.10.2009 – 08.09.2011
Master in History
Faculty of History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
01.10.2005 – 15.07.2009
Bachelor in History
Faculty of History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski
Positions held
01.02.2025 – 31.01.2026
Postdoctoral researcher
European Research Council Advanced Grant (ERC-2022-AdG no. 101098095)
New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
01.04.2024 – currently
Assistant Professor
Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
01.02.2019 – 31.03.2024
Researcher
Institute for Historical Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
19.02.2015 – 19.02.2019
Assistant Professor
Department of Social Sciences and Humanities, Faculty of Management, University of Economics – Varna, Bulgaria
Degree and academic rank
2016 – Doctor (PhD)
2024 – assistant professor
Membership in academic organizations and associations
04.10.2016 – currently
Member of the Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes
01.10.2016 – 01.01.2020
Member of the Centre for Economic and History Research
15.10.2008 – 20.05.2016
Member and Founder of the International Students of History Association Section at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Membership in editorial and publishing boards
2017
Member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the Centre for Economic and History Research. Vol. 2 The Diversity of Bulgarian Economic Development through the Ages, Ivan Rusev and others (eds.), Varna, 2017. (in Bulgarian)
2016
Member of the editorial board of the Proceedings of the Centre for Economic and History Research. Vol. 1, The Urban Economy in the Bulgarian Lands through the Ages, Ivan Rusev and others (eds.), Varna, 2016. (in Bulgarian)
Specializations and fellowships
01.06.2025 – 07.06.2025
Erasmus Mobility exchange for teaching at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
14.04.2024 – 21.04.2024
Erasmus Mobility program for teaching at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece
01.03.2020 – 31.08.2020
Post-doctoral Fellow at Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, funded by the National Program “Young Scholars and Postdoctoral Students”, Sofia, Bulgaria
20.09.2017 – 28.02.2018
Post-doctoral Fellow of SAIA National Scholarship Programme at the Department of Slovak History, Faculty of Philosophy, Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia
11.09.2017 – 15.09.2017
Erasmus Mobility exchange for teaching at Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece
15.08.2016 – 15.03.2017
Post-doctoral Fellow of Türkiye Bursları at the Department of History, the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences, Uludağ University, Bursa, Turkey
05.07.2015 – 04.08.2015
Fellow of the Sasakawa Scholarship for PhD research abroad of the Nipon Foundation, implemented in Istanbul
03.08.2014 – 31.08.2014
Scholarship for participation in Ottoman Culture and History Summer School, İstanbul Bilimler Akademisi Vakfı (Istanbul Academy of Sciences), Istanbul, Turkey
01.02.2014 – 01.05.2014
Fellow of the American Research Center in Sofia’s Residential Fellowship for Southeast European Scholars, Sofia, Bulgaria
28.10.2013 – 09.11.2013
Scholarship of the project for PhD Students in Humanities of the Center for Excellence in Humanities “Alma Mater” at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
13.10.2013 –18.10.2013
Scholarship by the project “Integrated program for training and support of the PhD students in Social Sciences and Humanities at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski””
01.09.2013 – 01.10.2013
Fellow of the American Research Center in Sofia Bulgarian Scholars Program for research in Athens or in Turkey, with research stay at the American Research Institute in Turkey, Istanbul
12.05.2013 – 23.05.2013
Scholarship for participation in the Intensive Erasmus Program “Standards of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times”, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
13.05.2012 – 24.05.2012
Scholarship for participation in the Intensive Erasmus Program “Standards of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times”, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria
04.10.2010 – 31.01.2011
Scholarship for Erasmus Exchange program at the University of Ioannina, Greece
16.08.2010 – 14.09.2010
Scholarship for participation in intensive summer course for Modern Greek language at the School for Modern Greek Language at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Participation in joint projects
01.07.2025 – currently Member in a collective research project “Settlements, population and everyday life in the Bulgarian space (15th–19th cc.)” of the Institute for Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (July 2025 – July 2028)
01.10.2023 – 01.07.2024 Member in collective research project with state subsidy of the Institute for Historical Studies “Peculiarities of the modernization of the Bulgarian society during the “long” 19th century” (July 2021–July 2024)”
01.07.2016 – 31.12.2017 Member of the project “Echo from the War” Part III for collection of memories of Bulgarian veterans who participated in the Second World War, funded by the of the Center for Excellence in Humanities “Alma Mater”, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
01.07.2013 – 18.02.2015 Member of the project “Echo from the War” Part II for collection of memories of Bulgarian veterans who participated in the Second World War, funded by the National Centre for European Youth Programs and Initiatives
01.07.2010 – 30.06.2011 Member of the project “Echo from the War” Part I for collection of memories of Bulgarian veterans who participated in the Second World War, funded by the National Centre for European Youth Programs and Initiatives
01.07.2010 – 31.12.2010 Member of the project „My Birthplace is Europe“
funded by Youth in action program
01.02.2012 – 01.03.2012 Participant in the “FRAGEN” project for creation of database for books and other sources on Women History
01.10.2010 – 01.02.2012 Member of the project “BG-Clio“ of the Faculty of History of the Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” for creation of database for Historical Journals
01.01.2009 – 04.10.2009 Member of a team for collection of oral-history interviews in the village Bardarski Geran, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
Teaching
20.02.2015 – 19.02.2019
“History of Economics” BA seminar at the University of Economics – Varna
20.02.2015 – 19.02.2019
“European Studies” BA seminar at the University of Economics – Varna
26.02.2018 – 19.02.2019
“Capitalism, Modernization and Globalization in the Balkans during the 19th Century” BA and MA course at the University of Economics – Varna
Languages
English, Modern Greek, Turkish, Spanish, Russian, French, Ottoman-Turkish
3. PUBLICATIONS
А. Books
B. Collective works
C. Документални издания
D. Студии и статии:
- ‘Foreign Technology and Local Agents of Modernization: The Rusçuk and Varna Railway Project as a Case Study for the Ottoman Modernization’ in Boriana Antonova-Goleva and Ivelina Masheva (eds.), Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Space (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 353-401.
- Masheva, Ivelina and Boriana Antonova-Goleva, “Agents of Modernization in Southeast Europe: State of the Art and the Contribution of the Present Volume”, in Boriana Antonova-Goleva and Ivelina Masheva (eds.), Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Space (Leiden: Brill, 2024), pp. 3-29.
- ‘“Top-Down” or “Bottom-Up” Modernization: Local Railway Entrepreneurs in the Ottoman Empire in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century’, Turkish Historical Review, vol. 14, no. 1 (2023), pp. 26-57.
- ‘Concessions and Mirages along the Lower Danube: The Town of Silistria in the Plans of Foreign Railway Promoters during the mid-1850s’, Journal of Balkan and Black Sea Studies 5 (2020), pp. 19-47.
- ‘Organisation of the Ottoman Railways in the Balkans (1856 – 1878): from theory into practice’, in: Processes of Modernization in the Balkans under Ottoman rule during the 19th and the beginning of the 20th centuries, Sofia – Skopije, 2017, pp. 12-32. (in Bulgarian)
- ‘Ottoman Railways on the Balkans – Chronology and Periodisation’, Varna, The Bulgarians, and the Bulgarian Towns. Settlement Studies about the National Revival Period. Studia in memoriam Velko Tonev. Acta Musei Varnaensis ΧΙΙ, 2016, pp. 199-220. (in Bulgarian)
- ‘Svetoslav Milarov and the Memory for him’, Anamneza, IX, 2014 (2), рp. 31-112. (in Bulgarian)
- ‘The appearance of railways in Rumelia and the changes in the standards of traveling’, in Krasimira Mutafova and others (eds.) Standards of the Everyday Life during the Middle Ages and Modern Times, vol. 2, Veliko Tarnovo, 2013, pp. 293-315.
- ‘The secret mission of the spy-patriot Svetoslav Sapunov in December 1869–January 1870’, in XVIII Kyustendil readings 2011: “Debates and Propblems in the Modern Bulgarian Historiography”, Kyustendil – Sofia, 2013, pp. 84-117. (in Bulgarian)
- ‘The Emigrant years of Svetoslav Milarov in Austro-Hungary’, History, Vol. 20, No. 3 (2012), pp. 217-237. (in Bulgarian)
- ‘How the Balkapanι petty merchant Advanced’, in Krasimira Mutafova and others (eds.), Standards of the Everyday Life during the Middle Ages and Modern Times, vol. 1, Veliko Tarnovo, 2012, pp. 55-63. (in Bulgarian)
E. Academic reviews
Scientific Conference on the Urban Economy in the Bulgarian Lands through the Ages. Etudes Balkaniques, vol. 54, no. 1 (2018), pp. 159-162.
F. Compiling and editing
Antonova-Goleva, Boriana and Ivelina Masheva (eds.), Transforming Southeast Europe During the Long Nineteenth Century: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization in the Ottoman and the Post-Ottoman Space (Leiden: Brill, 2024). ISBN: 978-3-506-76002-9; електронна книга: ISBN: 978-3-657-76002-2
4. PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC FORUMS
Organization of scientific forums
01.09.2024 – currently
Member of the Organizing committee of the 26th International Symposium of Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes, organized by the University of Economics – Varna, Institute for historical Studies – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
20.11.2019 – 23.11.2019
Member of the Organizing committee of the International Conference “Medieval Nomads: Nomads and their neighbors in the Middle Ages”, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria, about 55 participants from 16 countries
01.12.2017 – 02.12.2017
Head of the Organizing committee of the International Workshop „South Eastern Europe during the long 19th century: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization”, financed by the Center for Excellence in the Humanities “Alma Mater”, Sofia University “St Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria, about 12 participants from 6 countries
29.09.2016 – 30.09.2017
Member of the Organizing committee of the Conference “The Diversity of Bulgarian Economic Development through the Ages“, held at the University of Economics – Varna, organized by the University of Economics – Varna and the Centre for Economic and History Research, 28 participants from Bulgaria
25.05.2017 – 26.05.2017
Member of the Organizing committee of International Workshop “Mongol Warfare between Steppe and Sown: Military, Social and Cultural Perspectives” held at Center for Advanced Studies – Sofia, Bulgaria, about 12 participants from 8 countries
30.09.2016 – 01.10.2016
Member of the Organizing committee of the Conference “Urban Economy in the Bulgarian Lands through the Ages”, held at the University of Economics – Varna, оrganized by the University of Economics – Varna and the Centre for Economic and History Research, 27 participants from Bulgaria
22.05.2014 – 26.05.2014
Member of the Organizing committee of ISHA – Sofia Weekend Seminar 2014 “Conflict Situations and Their Consequences” held at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, 25 participants from 9 countries
23.09.2010 – 29.09.2010
Member of the Organizing committee of ISHA – Sofia Autumn Seminar 2010 “Unions through History” held at the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Bulgaria, 45 participants from 14 countries
Participation in peer-reviewed scientific forums
21.06.2024 – 25.06.2024
25th International Congress of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies, Тirana, Albania, organized by Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes
21.06.2022 – 25.06.2022
24th International Congress of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, organized by Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes
11.09.2018 – 15.09.2018
23rd International Congress of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by New Bulgarian University, American university in Bulgaria and Comité International des Études Pré-Ottomanes et Ottomanes
24.07.2017 – 28.07.2017
14th International Congress of Ottoman Social and Economic History (ICOSEH), Sofia, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
06.10.2016 – 08.10.2016
International Conference “Balkan Worlds III: Power Networks in the Imperial and Post- Imperial Balkans (18th–20th c.)“, Thessaloniki, Greece, organized by the University of Macedonia
04.10.2016 – 08.10.2016
22nd International Congress of Pre-Ottoman and Ottoman Studies, Trabzon, Turkey, organized by the Comité International des Études Pré- Ottomanes et Ottomanes
31.08.2015 – 04.09.2015 11th
International Congress of South-East European Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
23.05.2013 – 25.05.2013 3rd
International Congress on Bulgarian Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
25.10.2012 – 26.10.2012
International Conference “Communications and Commerce in the Balkans between Alexander the Great and Alexander Battenberg“, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the American Research Center in Sofia
Participation in other scientific events
24.05.2025 – 25.05.2025
11 International Congress on Ottoman Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey, organized by 29 Mayıs Üniversitesi
09.05.2024
Conference “Agents of Globalization: Migrations, Trade and Diplomacy in the Balkans , 19th–20th cc.“, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the Institute for Balkan Studies with Center fοr Thracology of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
24.04.2024 – 25.04.2024
International Conference “Bulgaria, Europe and the World: Traditions and Transformations”, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the Institute for Historical Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences
29.03.2024 – 30.03.2024
Conference “Progress and Prejudices during 18th and 19th centuries”, organized by the Bulgarian Society for Eighteen-Century Studies and Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
24.10.2023 – 26.10.2023
Conference “Readings in Μemory of Prof. dr. sc. Tsvetana Georgieva: history and anthropology”, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
19.10.2023 – 20.10.2023
International Workshop on method “Colonial Anxieties, Corruption Scandals and Modernization in Nineteenth-Century Infrastructure Development”, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania
09.10.2023 – 11.10.2023
International Conference “Culture, Infrastructure, Mobility”, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”, Sofia, Bulgaria
09.10.2023 – 11.10.2023
Conference “Tradition and Modernity: The Bulgarian Society during the Long 19th Century”, Institute for Historical Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
02.06.2023 – 04.06.2023
27th Annual conference “Disasters and Catastrophes in History”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, organized by the Regional Historical Museum – Kyustendil and the Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
16.03.2023 – 18.03.2023
International Conference “Roads to Happiness: Traffic Infrastructure in Southeast Europe, Hegemonic Discourse, and its Challenges”, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany
03.06.2022 – 05.06.2022
26th Annual conference “Falsifications and manipulations in history”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, organized by the Regional Historical Museum – Kyustendil and the Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski
19.09.2019 – 20.09.2019
Conference “Crises and and Economic Development through the Ages”, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, organized by Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and St. Metodius” and the Center for Economic and History Research
26.11.2018 – 27.11.2018
Annual University Conference for Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Readings, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” Sofia, Bulgaria
28.09.2018 – 29.09.2018
Conference “Institutions and Economic Development in the Bulgarian Lands through the Ages”, Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, organized by Veliko Tarnovo University “St. Cyril and St. Metodius” and the Center for Economic and History Research
01.07.2018 – 03.07.2018
24th Annual conference with international participation “Kyustendil Readings” on “Memory and obliviousness”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, organized by the Regional Historical Museum – Kyustendil and the Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
18.05.2018 – 19.05.2018
International Conference “Urban Culture on the Balkans” Plovdiv, Bulgaria, organized by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences and the University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”
01.12.2017 – 02.12.2017
International workshop “South Eastern Europe during the long 19th century: Persons and Personalities as Agents of Modernization”, Sofia, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
29.09.2017 – 30.09.2017
Conference “The Diversity of Bulgarian Economic Development through the Ages”, Varna, Bulgaria, organized by the University of Economics – Varna and the Centre for Economic and History Research
30.09.2016 – 01.10.2016
Conference “Urban Economy in the Bulgarian Lands through the Ages”, Varna, Bulgaria, organized by the University of Economics – Varna and the Centre for Economic and History Research
22.05.2014 – 26.05.2014
International Seminar “Conflict situations and their consequences”, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
14.04.2014 – 19.04.2014
International Seminar “Images of the Other: Relations between Western and Central-Eastern Europe in History”, Budapest, Hungary, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
14.06.2013 – 16.06.2013
20th Annual Conference with “Kyustendil Readings” on “The Fatal in History”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, organized by the Regional Historical Museum – Kyustendil and the Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
22.02.2013 – 23.02.2013
PhD Student Conference, Sofia, Bulgaria organized by the “Integrated program for training and support of the PhD students in Social Sciences and Humanities at Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski””
21.12.2012
Annual University Conference “Doctoral Readings”, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the Faculty of History of the University of Sofia “St. Kliment Ohridski
01.06.2012 – 03.06.2012
19th Annual Conference with international participation “Kyustendil Readings” on the “Traditions and transition in the Bulgarian Historical Science”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, organized by the Regional Historical Museum – Kyustendil and the Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
04.07.2011 – 10.07.2011 International Seminar “Myths, Heroes and Identities”, Bucurest, Rumania, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
01.06.2011 – 03.06.2011 Student Round table “Standards of Everyday Life during the Middle Ages and the Modern Times”, Gyoletchitsa, Bulgaria, Organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. St. Cyril and Metodius”
25.04.2011 – 01.05.2011
International Conference “East and West: Bridging the Differences”, Pula, Croatia, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
23.02.2011 – 27.02.2011
International Seminar “History Used as Propaganda”, Leuven, Belgium, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
23.09.2010 – 29.09.2010
International Seminar “Unions in the History”, Sofia, Bulgaria, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
04.06.2010 – 06.06.2010
17th Annual Conference “Kyustendil Readings” on “Failures in History”, Kyustendil, Bulgaria, organized by the Regional Historical Museum – Kyustendil and the Faculty of History of Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”
19.12.2009
Workshop “The Micro history as research, civil, and ethical paradigm”, Sofia, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski, South- West University of Blagoevgrad “Neofit Rilski”, and Plovdiv University “Paisii Hilendarski”
21.05.2009
Seminar “The Second World War through the personal memory prism”, Sofia, Bulgaria, Club of the Veterans – Sofia
11.05.2009 – 14.05.2009
Student Round table “Standards of Everyday Life during the Middle Ages and the Modern Times”, Zheravna, Bulgaria, organized by Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” and the University of Veliko Tarnovo “St. St. Cyril and Metodius”
20.10.2008 – 24.10.2008
International Seminar “Historiography and Methodology”, Belgrade, Serbia, organized by the local section of the International Students of History Association
27.08.2008
Round table “Bulgaria and the Second World War”, Sofia, Bulgaria, The Military Club
5. PRACTICAL ACTIVITIES
Lectures and other public events to promote academic achievements
16.09.2024
Consultant and participant in TV show “Istoria.BG” on” Where do the Bulgarians from the Bulgarian National Revival Period study? Education outside the Ottoman Empire”
16.05.2024
Public Lecture “On the tracks of progress: the Ruse-Varna railway and the dimensions of Ottoman modernization” as part of the Center for Advanced Studies’ seminar “Economic (Social) Bulgaria: The future through the culture of the past”, CAS-Sofia, Bulgaria
10.04.2024
Guest in a Radio Broadcast “Radio Encyclopedia” on “Women in Bulgarian Modern History”
20.04.2023
Participant in a Round Table, as part of Student Conference dedicated to the 147th anniversary of the April Uprising”, Regional Historical Museum- Sofia, Bulgaria“
21.03.2022
Consultant and participant in TV show “Istoria.BG” on “The correctly-understood civilization – modernization, railways and telegraphs”
15.12.2021
Public Lecture “Technologies, communication and the modernization of the Bulgarians in the Ottoman Empire during the 19th century”, Regional Historical Museum-Sofia, Bulgaria
27.11.2020
Public Lecture “On the rails of modernization: everyday life on the Rumelia railways in the third quarter of the 19th century, Regional Historical Museum-Sofia, Bulgaria
27.09.2019
Public Lecture “The Bulgarians and the Entrepreneurship during the National Revival Period”, European Researchers Night, Organized by MOVE.BG, Sofia, Bulgaria
6. AWARDS AND HONOURS
22.08.2018 – 05.09.2018
„Black Sea Scholar Fund Award“ of the British Institute at Ankara for research in London, UK