Maria TodorovaMaria Todorova is Gutgsell Professor of History Emerita at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA. She is the author of Imagining the Balkans (revised edition, 2009), which has been translated into 15 languages; Bones of Contenion: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (2009); Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria (revised edition, 2006); and Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European Entanglements (2018). She led large scale international research projects resulting in several edited and co-edited volumes, including: Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory (2002); Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation (2010); Postcommunist Nostalgia (2010); and Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experiences in Southeastern Europe (2014). She has held awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, The Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and The Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna, and is the recipient of honorary degrees from the European University Institute in Italy, the University of Sofia, Bulgaria and Panteion University in Greece. In 2022, she received the Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies Award and was elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Read More Read Less