Office Hours: Tuesday, 16:00-17:00   Phone: (02) 9308/ E-mail:dsstoichko@uni-sofia.bg Address: Faculty of History 1504 Sofia, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.

Curriculum Vitae:

• Date and Place of Birth: 17.03.1986, Kyustendil, Bulgaria
• University of Sofia „St. Kliment Ohridski“, BA in History (2009)
• University of Sofia „St. Kliment Ohridski“, MA in History (2011)
• University of Sofia „St. Kliment Ohridski“, MA in Tourism (2012)
• University of Sofia „St. Kliment Ohridski“, PhD in History (2016)

Projects:

• February 2016 Participation in Joint History Project Phase 2, Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in Southeast Europe (CDRSEE), Podgorica (Montenegro)
• 2014-2015 The Arabs in Sicily (9th-11th centuries) – Material Cultural Heritage, (including research in Sicily), Centre of Excellence in the Humanities “Alma Mater”, Sofia University
• May 2012 Intensive Erasmus Program "Standards of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times", University of Veliko Tarnovo
• 2009 Participation in BG-CLIO, Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski ", Faculty of History (2009)

Research Interests:

History of the Islamic Mediterranean in the Medieval period, Interreligious relations in the Medieval times, Worldviews and transmission of knowledge in the Middle Ages

Selected Publications:

Monograph

• The Arabs in Sicily (9th-11th centuries). Conquest, Administration and Cultural Exchange. S., Unipress “St. Kliment Ohridski” 2020 [in Bulgarian]

Articles:

• High school history education in the times of reforms. Problems and perspectives. In: Society, memory, education. History and public attitudes. Proceedings of the summer national didactic seminar in Kiten, Volume 5, Sofia 2019, pp. 150-162 [in Bulgarian]
• Characteristics of the Medieval Islamic Prisons in Sicily (9th-11th centuries), History 2019, 27(2), pp. 151–163 [in Bulgarian]
• Medieval Islamic schools in the Central Mediterranean (9th-11th centuries): theory and practices. In: Society, memory, education. History and public attitudes. Proceedings of the summer national didactic seminar in Kiten, Volume 4, Sofia, 2018, pp. 206–218 [in Bulgarian]
• Sea Battles and Sieges During the Arab Conquest in Sicily” (827–902). In: Collection of Reports from “Doctoral and Post- doctoral Readings of the Faculty of History 2013”, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, 2013, pp. 23–47 [in Bulgarian]
• How the Evil came? – The monk Teodosius for the fall of Syracuse (878) and the Standing of the Christians in Muslim Sicily, Quod Deus Vult! Mediaevalia (Special edition) pp. 140–153 [in Bulgarian]
• The Arabs in Sicily 9th-11th centuries – Survey of the Written Sources and Approaches for Dealing With Them, Collection of Reports From “First Common Doctoral Conference of Social and Humanities Sciences”, 2015, pp. 27–43 [in Bulgarian]
• The Message of the Winners in the Battle of Misilmeri (1068) According to the Chronicle of Goffredo Malaterra, Doctoral and post- doctoral readings 2012 (Faculty of History, Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski). IF–94. Sofia, 2014, pp. 46– 52 [in Bulgarian]
• Urban Structure and Urban Life in Palermo in the 10th Century CE According to Ibn Ηawqal, In: Standards of Everyday Life in the Middle Ages and in Modern Times. Vol. 2, Veliko Tarnvo: Faber, 2013, pp. 257–276 [in English]