Kliment Ohridski”, Faculty of History, in Bulgaria. He teaches BA and MA courses in Balkan and Ottoman history; pre-modern and early modern history of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia; minorities; migrations; and nomadic societies. He earned his Ph.D. in history in 2002 from the University of Sofia. He has also lectured at the Uludağ University in Bursa, Turkey; the Center for Islamic and Middle East Studies in Bergen, Norway; and CNRS-EHESS in Paris, France. In 2013, he was given the Gipson Award for outstanding Bulgarian dissertation on the Ottoman Period in the Balkans from the American Research Center in Sofia. He has some 40 publications, among them three books: on the Yürük community in the Ottoman Balkans; on Turks and Muslims in Bulgaria (1944-1989), in Bulgarian; and Communities, Identities and Migrations in Southeast Europe: Collected Articles (Sofia, Anamnesis, 2014), in English.