PhD in History, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. April 1988.
BA, Middle Eastern and Balkan Studies, St. Clement of Ohrid University, Sofia.1982. Highest Honors.
High School: The English School, Sofia (an internationally-oriented state high-school with United Nations connections through UNESCO). Best Student Award.
 

EMPLOYMENT

• Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of Oklahoma; March 1997 to present.

Courses taught:
  Hist 3770/001 From Hitler to Gorbachev: Eastern Europe Since 1938
Hist 3770/002 Eastern Orthodox Christianity and State-Building in Eastern Europe
Hist 3813 20^th Century Russia
Hist 3833 Nation-Building in East-Central Europe 1790-1938
 
• Adjunct Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Oklahoma; January 1996 to present.

Courses taught:
  PSc 3550 Nationalism and Conflict: the Bosnian Case
PSc 4663 State-Building and Nationalism in Eastern Europe
PSc 3683 The Politics of Russia
PSc 4990 Level Russian Foreign Policy

• Consultant, OU Writing Center; August 1998 to present

• Director of Recruitment, University Seminars International Inc.; July 1996-July 1997

• Inspector, American-Bulgarian Laboratory for Psychology of Human Activity, St. Clement of Ohrid University, Sofia; September 1993 - July 1995

• Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, Hartford Seminary, Hartford, CT; September 1992-September 1993

• Research associate, Institute for Contemporary Social Theories, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia; July 1989-July 1992

• Consultant, Vienna Center for Research and Documentation in the Social Sciences, Vienna, Austria; September 1991- May 1992

• Assistant Professor, Foreign Students Institute, Sofia; August 1982-May 1983

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AWARDS

• Fulbright scholarship for advanced research, 1992-1993
• Travel grant to the National Convention of AAASS in Seattle, 1997; International Programs Center, The University of Oklahoma
• Travel grant to the Centre for European Security Studies, Groningen, the Netherlands,1994; travel and living expenses, The University of Groningen
• Travel grant to Oxford, UK, to participate in the conference "Islam in Europe – Generation to Generation", 1994; the British Council
• Travel grant to Amersfoort (The Netherlands) to participate in the conference "Islam, Europe, and Local Development", 1992; the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Coordination of Research in the Social Sciences
• Travel grant to Istanbul, Turkey, to participate in the conference "Dialogue for Muslim-Christian Friendship and Understanding", 1991; travel and living expenses, the Council for World Religions
• Travel grant to Salzburg (Austria), 1991; the Open Society Fund, Sofia
• Participation grant, 1991; living expenses, Salzburg Seminar of American Studies
• Botev Scholarship for Academic Excellence, 1982-1983; Ministry of Education, Bulgaria
• First award, National Students’ Contest in Political Science, 1981, Bulgaria

LANGUAGES

Spoken/literary fluency: English, French, Russian, Bulgarian

Literary fluency: Arabic, Macedonian

Spoken/literary familiarity: Serbo-Croatian
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies

Association for the Study of Nationalities

Central Oklahoma Chapter of the Fulbright Association
 

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

"Nationalism and Islam in the Arab countries", The Struggle of the Arab Countries for National and Social Liberation (Proceedings of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, 1986)Ibn Khaldun, Introduction to History (translation from Arabic into Bulgarian: Petya Bratoeva, Jordan Peev), Sofia, 1986

Arab Nationalism (Ph.D thesis), Sofia, 1987

"Arab Nationalism: the Interrelation of National, Social and Class Aspects", Scientific Works, 1, 1987, Sofia

"Some Characteristics of the Arab Nationalist Concept", Philosophical Thought, 1, 1988, Sofia

"The Scientific Revolution and the Decolonization of the Minds of Arab Intellectuals", Socio-Economic Problems of Bulgaria and the Developing Countries, (proceedings of a symposium), Sofia, 1988

"The Gulf States - USSR Relations in a new light", Information Bulletin of the Institute for Political Studies, 8, 1988, Sofia

"The Kurdish Issue in the 80s", Information Bulletin of the Institute for Political Studies, 4, 1990, Sofia

"The Ambiguity of the Gulf War", Politics, March, 1991, Sofia

"Islam and Christianity in South-Eastern Europe: a Reappraisal of an Interfaith Encounter", Religion Today ,3, summer 1992, London, UK

"The Muslim Parliament in Great Britain", Continent, April, 1992, Sofia

"Great Britain: Federalism in the Light of the Election Results"

Continent, April 1992, Sofia

"Qizilbash," "Bulgaria" (joint author) in I. Harris, S. Mews, P. Morris and J. Shepherd eds., Contemporary Religions: a World Guide, London: Longman Current Affairs, 1992

"Vatican II and the dialogue with non-Christian Religions", La cultura spirituale cattolica sua presenza ed influsso in Bulgaria (The Catholic Spiritual Culture and its Presence and Influence in Bulgaria), Sofia: Gea Libris, 1992

"The Bosnian Crisis: Anatomy of the Conflict", New Community. A Journal of Research and Policy on Ethnic Relations, vol.19, number 3, April 1993, Warwick, UK

"Popular Islam and Indigenization: The South East European Perspective", abstract of a paper presented at the conference "Islam in Europe: Generation to Generation", 5-7 April 1993, University of Oxford, UK

"Islam in Bulgaria: a Historical Re-appraisal," Religion, State and Society, Vol. 22, No.1, 1994, Oxford, UK

"Qizilbash" in I. Harris, S. Mews, P. Morris and J. Shepherd eds., Longman Guide to Living Religions, Longman Group Ltd., the High, Harlow, Essex, 1994

"Islam and Christianity in South Eastern Europe" in John Fulton and Peter Gee eds., Religion in Contemporary Europe, the Edwin Mellen Press, UK, 1994

"Bulgaria: Minorities, Democratization, and National Sentiments," Nationalities Papers, Vol. 25, No. 4, 1997

"Bulgaria" in Ivanka Nedeva and Joost Herman eds., Minorities and Foreign Policy:Minorities in East Central Europe and their impact upon foreign policy, Centre for European Security Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, 1998
 
 

CONFERENCES AND SEMINARS, PROFESSIONAL TRAVEL

East European Students' Seminar on Social Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia, December 1981

Guest Scholar, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany, August 1988

American Studies Seminar, Salzburg, Austria, session 289: "Migration: A Challenge for Humanity," April 1991

"Dialogue for Muslim-Christian Friendship and Understanding," organized by the Council for World Religions, Istanbul, Turkey, September 1991

"Religion in the Common European Home," organized by the British Association for the Study of Religions and the British Association for Political Science, London, UK, April 1992 "Islam, Europe and Local Development," organized by the Netherlands Interuniversity Institute for Coordination of Research in the Social Sciences, Amersfoort, the Netherlands, May 1992

Guest Scholar, Institute for Social Geography, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, conducted seminar on Muslim Minorities in Bulgaria, May 1992

Tenth Annual Meeting of the American Council for the Study of Islamic Societies, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, roundtable discussion on Nationalism in the Balkans, panelist, March 1993

"American Democracy: Toward the 21st Century," Senior Fulbright Scholar Conference, Washington, DC, March 1993

"Islam in Europe - Generation to Generation," St. Catherine's College and School of Geography, Oxford, UK, April 1993

"Christian-Muslim Relations: Towards A Just World Order," Association of Chicago Theological Schools, Chicago, Illinois, April 1993

National Executive Committee Research Conference, "Minorities and Foreign Policy" research team, Centre for European Security Studies, University of Groningen, the Netherlands, Oct. 1994

National Convention of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, roundtable on Institution-Building in Eastern Europe, panelist, Seattle, November 1997
 
 

PUBLIC SPEAKING TO US COLLEGES, COMMUNITY GROUPS, AND MEDIA

Hartford Seminary seminar, sponsored by the Macdonald Center: The Bosnian Crisis, Sept. 1992

Interview for Praxis, Hartford Seminary: "Nitzova on War, Peace, and Multiculturalism," Praxis, Fall 1992

Central Connecticut State University: speaking at a public rally on Bosnian human rights, October 1992

New Haven (CT), Overseas Ministries Study Center: "Political Transition and Religion in Eastern Europe," November 1992

Islam and the West: Myth and Reality; conference of the Macdonald Center: Panelist; workshop on Islam in Europe, November 1992

Hartford Seminary: "Islam and Fundamentalism," lecture, November 1992

Adult Education Forum of St. Stephens Church, Ridgefield (CT): "The Bosnian Crisis: The Legacy of Tolerance and Conflict in the Balkans," December 1992

Public Policy Breakfast Group, Hartford Seminary: "Political Dynamics in the Balkans", January 1993

West Hartford Community Television TV26: a program "Bulgaria Today," organized by the World's Affairs Council; broadcast on Jan.18, 20, 22, 1993, at 10 p.m.

Issue Briefing, The Connecticut Journal of International Law, The University of Connecticut Law School: "The Bosnian Crisis and its Implications for the International Community," February 1993

Trinity Episcopal Church, Hartford : "Nations and National Characters in the Balkans," April 1993

Farewell address to Hartford Seminary community, Praxis, Winter 1994

International Visitors' Council, Oklahoma City: "The 50^th Anniversary of the Fulbright Program", April 1996

Girl-scout Thinking-day, Monroe Elementary school, Norman: program on Bulgarian culture, March 1996

French-Speaking Society (Alliance Francaise), Oklahoma City, program on Bulgaria, March 1997

Global awareness club, Norman High School, program on Eastern Europe, December 1999

KKNG Radio News, interview on recent political developments in Russia. Aired repeatedly on the morning of Sunday, Jan.16, at FM 93.3 and AM 8.90.

Visit of Russian poet Andrei Voznesenski. Poetry reading and faculty discussion; panelist.
 

REFERENCES

Prof. Mark J. Miller, Department of Political Science, The University of Delaware
    Managing Editor, The International Migration Review

John W. Slocum, Ph.D, Program Officer, Program on Global Security and Sustainability
    The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Prof. Hans van Amersfoort, Institute of Social Geography, The University of Amsterdam