Roumen Daskalov
About the Author
Roumen Daskalov is a Bulgarian historian and former university professor of modern history at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, and a recurrent visiting professor at the Central European University in Budapest. He earned his MA and PhD at St. Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia.
Throughout his academic career, he has held multiple international fellowships and research appointments in Florence, Oxford, Princeton, Maryland, and Berlin, and has also received an Advanced Grant from the European Research Council. He is the author of ten books and has published over fifty scholarly works.
His research focuses on modernization, modern social history, and the historiography of Bulgaria and the Balkans, with particular attention to grand national narratives from the National Revival through the post-communist period.
