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Sofia University "St. Kliment Ohridski"

Faculty of History

15 Tzar Osvoboditel
1504 Sofia, Bulgaria

Author ID (SCOPUS):56110710800
Research ID (Web of Science):D-2856-2016
ORCID ID:orcid.org/0000-0001-7438-4412

https://uni-sofia.academia.edu/MariaBaramova

Maria Baramova

 

 

Curriculum Vitae

  • 1995 - Russian Language High School „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“, Sofia
  • July 2000 - MA in History at the Faculty of History, Sofia University
  • 2003-2006 Ph.D. student at the Department of „History of Byzantium and the Balkans“ at the Faculty of History, Sofia University. Dissertation: “Danube in the European-Ottoman relations (1396-1566). Geopolitical, strategic and military aspects”.
  • 2002-2003 / 2005-2006 - Visiting Assistant Professor of Modern and Contemporary Balkan history at the Faculty of Law and History, Southwestern University, Blagoevgrad.
  • 2008-2019 - Assistant Professor in Modern Balkan history at the Department of History of Byzantium and the Balkans, in the Faculty of History, Sofia University „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“
  • 2011-2012 - Researcher at Leibniz-Institute for European History, Mainz (Germany). Project: Übersetzungsleistungen von Diplomatie und Medien im vormodernen Friedensprozess in Europa, 1450-1789
  • 2019 - Associate Professor Early Modern History of South-Eastern Europe t the Department of History of Byzantium and the Balkans, in the Faculty of History, Sofia University „Sv. Kliment Ohridski“

Awards:

Specialization:

  • 2016-2017: Research fellow (Center for Advanced Studies, Sofia)
  • 2006-2007: Research fellow (Leibniz Institute for European History, Mainz, Germany)
  • 2006: Research fellow (Gaststipendium) at the PhD Program “Archives, Power, and Knowledge. Organising, Controlling, and Destroying Stored Knowledge from Antiquity to the Present”, University of Bielefeld, Germany (one month)
  • 2005: Dr. Günther Findel Fellowship at the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, Germany (six months)
  • 2005: Klaus von Kotze Fellowship, University of Cologne, Germany (one month)
  • 2004: Research Fellowship of the Österreichische Austauschdienst, Austrian Agency for International Cooperation in Education and Research, University of Vienna, Austria (six months)
  • 2003-2004: Herder Fellowship of the Alfred-Toepfer-Foundation, Hamburg, Germany (nine months)

Administrative Positions:

MA Programms:

Membership:

Editing boards:

International Projects:

Operational Programmes of the EU Fundings:

  • Creation and Development of “Heritage BG” Centre of ExcellenceOperational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth” 2014-2020 (Co-funded European Regional Development Fund) BG05M2OP001-1.001 – Research Fellow R3 (2018 – 2023 Contract No: BG05M2OP001-1.001-0001)
  • Student Practices - Phase 2 Operational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth”Operational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth” 2014-2020 – academic adviser (Period: 2020 Contract No: BG05M2OP001-2.013-0001)
  • Student Practices - Phase 1 Operational Programme “Science and Education for Smart Growth” 2014-2020 – academic adviser (Period: 2016 – 2018 Contract No: BG05M2OP001-2.002-0001)
  • Enhancing the access to education and training of students in the master's programs of the Faculty of History of Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski“: new e-learning tools. Operational Programme of the EU „Development of Human resources“ – instructor (Period: 2012 – 2013 Contract No: BG051PO001-4.3.04-0038)
  • Collegium Historicum – Program for Enhancing the scholarly capacity of PhD students, post-docs and early carreer scholars at the Faculty of History at the University of SofiaOperational Programme of the EU „Development of Human resources“ - European Social Fund – Member of project team (Period: 2009 – 2011 Contract No: ДРНФ02/14 - 15.12.2009)

Research Projects:

I. “Cultural Heritage, National Memory and Social Development” National Research Program, National Strategy of Scientific Research 2017-2030. Bulgarian Ministry of Science and Education (Period: 2019 – 2021 Contract No: Д01-229/06.12.2018)

  • Integrated Geoinformation approach to study of complex Urban Cultural HeritageLandscapes – research team leader
  • "Historia (Balcanica) magistra vitae (Bulgariae) est": New Approaches for Enhancing theBalkan studies in Bulgaria until mid 21st century – member of the research team
  • The “Hidden” Archive: The unprocessed archive of Evlogi and Hristo Georgievi as an unused Resource for the Reconstruction of the Economic and Political Past – member of the research team

II. National Science Fund, Ministry of Education and Science

III. Others:

Research Interests

  • History of Southeastern Europe, 16th-18th century; Ottoman Empire; Habsburg Monarchy, geopolitics, warfare, peace treaties, environmental history

Selected Publications

Monographs:

  • Translation of Power: Negotiating the peace between the Habsburgs and the Sublime Porte, 1547–1747. Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2019. (in Bulgarian)
  • Europe, the Danube and the Ottomans (1396-1541), Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2014. (in Bulgarian)

Text books and Atlases:

  • Historical Atlas of Southeastern Europe, Sofia: Datamap, 2012 (with Christo Matanov, Vladimir Stanev).

Editing:

  • Social Networking in Southeastern Europe, 15th-19th Centuries. LiT: Berlin/ Münster, 2021 (Ed. with Grigor Boykov, Ivan Parvev).
  • Der Donauraum als Zivilisationsbrücke. Österreich und der Balkan. Perspektiven aus der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020 (ed. with Maria Endreva, Alexandra Preitschopf, Ivan Parvev)
  • Централна Европа и Балканите. Сборник в памет на проф. Милчо Лалков. София: УИ "Св. Климент Охридски", 2019 (Ed. with Ivan Parvev, Naoum Kaytchev)
  • Махиел Кийл. България под османска власт. Събрани съчинения. Съст. и науч. редакция Мария Баръмова, Григор Бойков, Мария Кипровска. София: Издателска къща "Тендрил", 2017. (Ed. with Grigor Boykov, Maria Kiprovska)
  • Bordering Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015 (Ed. with Grigor Boykov, Ivan Parvev).
  • Power and Influence in Southeastern Europe, 16th-19th century . Berlin/ Münster: LiT, 2013 (Ed. with Ivan Parvev, Plamen Mitev, Vania Racheva);
  • Two Hundred Years on the Road "Balkan Peninsula" (1808-2008), Sofia: Sofia University Press, 2014 (Ed. with Ivan Parvev);
  • Collegium Historicum, Т. 1. Sofia: Gutenberg, 2011 (Ed. with Boris Stoyanov);
  • Empires and Peninsulas. Southeastern Europe between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699-1829 , Berlin/ Münster: LiT, 2010 (Ed. with Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev, Vania Racheva).

Articles:

  • Die Donau als Schicksalsstrom der Habsburger Monarchie? Der große Fluss in der österreichischen Außenpolitik, 16.-18. Jahrhundert, in: Maria Endreva, Alexandra Preitschopf, Maria Baramova, Ivan Parvev (eds.), Der Donauraum als Zivilisationsbrücke. Österreich und der Balkan. Perspektiven aus der Literatur- und Geschichtswissenschaft. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann, 2020, pp. 31-39
  • Social Networking “En passant”. The Habsburg Great Embassy of Count Damian Hugo von Virmont to Constantinople 1719–1720, in: In: Maria Baramova, Grigor Boykov, Ivan Parvev (eds.): Social Networking in South-Eastern Europe, 15th–19th Centuries, Berlin / Münster: LIT Verlag, 2021, pp. 179-189.
  • Хабсбургската търговия на Балканите в публичния дискурс, 1717-1740 г., Българите в Османската империя през ХIX в.: Понятия, структури, личности. Състав. и научна редакция Ваня Рачева, София: Университетско издателство "Св. Климент Охридски", 2017, с. 49-56
  • Vom Waffenstillstand zu Pax Perpetua. Der Kaiserliche Frieden von Belgrad (1739) und seineEntfristung (1747), Österreich: Geschichte, Literatur, Geografie: ÖGL, 59 (2015), Heft 3, pp. 281-289
  • България и българите в немските енциклопедии от ХVIII в. В: Послание на историята. Юбилеен сборник в чест на професор Марийка Радева, София: Университетско издателство "Св. Климент Охридски", 2015, с. 205-212
  • Negotiating Borders: Habsburg–Ottoman Peace. Treaties of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. - In: Maria Baramova, Grigor Boykov, Ivan Parvev (eds.), Bordering Early Modern Europe, Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2015, pp. 115-120.
  • Non-splendid Isolation: The Ottoman Empire and the Thirty Years’ War. – In: Olaf Asbach, Peter Schröder (eds.), The Ashgate Research Companion to the Thirty Years' War, London: Ashgate, 2014, pp. 115-126;
  • Преводът като израз на могъщество. Хабсбургско-османските отношения и техните “транслационни схеми”, ХVІ-ХVІІІ в. В: Йоанна Бенчева, Теодор Димитров (състав.), Realia Byzantino-Balcanica. In honorem annorum LX Christo Matanov = Сборник в чест на 60-годишнината на проф. Христо Матанов, София: Тангра ТанНакРа ИК, 2014, с. 553 - 563.
  • Земи и граници. Югоизтокът в европейската картография от Ранното ново време. – В: Иван Първев, Мария Баръмова (съст.), Двувековният път на едно понятие. Балканският полуостров (1808-2008). София: Университетско издателство, 2014, с. 27-36л
  • Der Frieden von Baden und seine Deutung am Goldenen Horn. Die Kaiserliche Diplomatie in Konstantinopel, 1713-1715. – In: Heinz Duchhardt, Martin Espenhorst (Hrg.), Utrecht - Rastatt - Baden 1713/1714. Translationsleistungen in Diplomatie und Medien, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 357–372;
  • Pax Belgradensis – Pax Perpetua? Deutungen und Missdeutungen in den deutschen Medien der 1740er Jahre. – In: Martin Espenhorst (Hrg.), Unwissen und Missverständnisse im Europäischen Friedensprozess, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 109–126;
  • Did the Danube exist in Habsburg Power Politics in Southeastern Europe before 1699? – In: Maria Baramova, Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev, Vania Racheva (Eds.). Power and Influence in Southeastern Europe, 16th-19th century, Berlin/ Münster: LiT, 2013, pp. 25–35;
  • "Die Übersetzung der Macht". Die Profile der habsburgisch-osmanischen Translationen im 16.–18. Jahrhundert. – In: Heinz Duchhardt, Martin Espenhorst (Hrg.), Frieden übersetzen in der Vormoderne. Translationsleistungen in Diplomatie, Medien und Wissenschaft, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2012, pp. 197–205;
  • Nikolaus Ernst Kleemanns ‘Reisen von Wien über Belgrad bis Kilianova’ und die Neuentdeckung des Donauraums in der Habsburgermonarchie. – In: Harald Heppner, Eva Posch (Eds.), Encounters in Europe's Southeast: The Habsburg Empire and the Orthodox World In the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries, Bochum: Winkler Verlag, 2012, pp. 65–75;
  • Балканите като геополитическа реалност в Цедлеровия универсален лексикон. – В: Исторически личности и идеи. Сборник в чест на 60-годишния юбилей на проф. Искра Баева, София: Университетско издателство, 2011, с. 220-226;
  • Seen trough Zedler’s Eyes: The 18th-Century Habsburg-Ottoman Conflict and the Early Modern Encyclopaedic Knowledge. – In: Plamen Mitev, Ivan Parvev, Maria Baramova, Vania Racheva (Eds.). Empires and Peninsulas. Southeastern Europe between Karlowitz and the Peace of Adrianople, 1699-1829. LiT: Berlin/ Münster 2010, pp. 95-106.
  • Border Theories in Early Modern Europe / Grenzvorstellungen im Europa der Frühen Neuzeit – In: Europäische Geschichte Online (EGO), hg. vom Institut für Europäische Geschichte (IEG), Mainz European History Online (EGO), published by the Institute of European History (IEG), Mainz Dec 03, 2010. URL: http://www.ieg-ego.eu/baramovam-2010-de URN: urn:nbn:de:0159-2010092151
  • „На границата на исляма“. Югоизточна Европа и Дунава през XV-XVI век. – Историческо бъдеще, 1-2, 2008-2009, 142-153;
  • Отсам и отвъд. Понятието граница в епохата на Ранното ново време. – В: История в преход. Сборник в чест на 60-годишнината на проф. Драгомир Драганов. София: Университетско издателство, 2008, с. 99-108;
  • Изгубим ли Дунава, ще ни сполети беда“. Голямата европейска река в един антиосмански трактат от 1558 г. – В: Тангра. Сборник в чест на 70-годишнината на акад. Васил Гюзелев, София: Университетско издателство, 2006, с. 217-230;
  • „Die übrige Welt hieß dort Europa“. – In: Netzwerk Magazin, Juli 2005, http://www.toepfer-fvs.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Netzwerk_Magazin/Die_uebrige_Welt.pdf
  • Между вярата и политиката. – ГСУ, Център за славяно-византийски проучвания „Иван Дуйчев“, 93 (13), 2003: Международна научна конференция „Манастирската култура на Балканите“, София: Университетско издателство, 2005, с. 235-244;
  • Дунав и трите османски обсади на Белград през ХV-ХVІ в. – В: Изток-Запад. Историческа перспектива, София, 2003, с. 131-139;
  • Още веднъж по въпроса за съдържанието и смисъла на ктиторския надпис от Земенския манастир. – История, 1999, 4-5, 91-100.