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• Duration of Stay: Visiting Fellowship | October 2025 | Based at the seeFField, Landshuter Str. 4
• Talk: 16 October, 14:15, Room 319 (Landshuter Str. 4) | Practicing Transnational History - jointly with Roumen Daskalov (Sofia)

Diana M. Mishkova is Director of the Centre for Advanced Study Sofia, a position she has held since 2000. Trained at Sofia University, where she received her M.A., PhD in Modern History, and habilitation, she has also taught as Associate Professor of Modern and Contemporary History of Southeastern Europe at Sofia University and held visiting professorships in Greece, Turkey, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Hungary, and the United States.

Her research explores the modern and contemporary history of Southeastern Europe, the history of historiography, nationalism and identity politics, intellectual and conceptual history, and the methodology of comparative research. She is the author of several influential monographs, including Rival Byzantiums: Empire and Identity in Southeastern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2022) and Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (Routledge, 2019). She has also co-edited major collective volumes such as the multi-volume Entangled Histories of the Balkans (Brill).

Mishkova has led or co-led numerous large international research projects funded by the European Commission, Getty Foundation, Volkswagen Foundation, Fritz Thyssen Foundation, and others. Recent projects include RE-ENGAGE (2024–26, Horizon Europe), addressing geopolitical tensions in the Western Balkans, and PREVEX (2020–23, Horizon 2020), on preventing violent extremism in the Balkans and MENA region.

Her scholarly excellence has been recognized with prestigious awards such as the Konstantin Jireček Medal (2023), the Danubius Award (2022), and election to the Academia Europaea (2021). She is also Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, and a Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.

Through her leadership, publications, and international collaborations, Diana Mishkova has become one of the foremost voices in rethinking the intellectual and political history of Southeastern Europe and its place within wider European and global contexts.