Tchavdar Marinov

Tchavdar Marinov is a Bulgarian historian whose research focuses on nationalism, identity politics, and the modern history of Southeast Europe, with particular attention to the historiography of the Macedonian Question and heritage politics in the Balkans.

He is a researcher at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (Institute of Philosophy and Sociology) and was trained in philosophy at Sofia University and in history and civilizations at the EHESS in Paris. Marinov is the author of the monograph La Question macédonienne de 1944 à nos jours: Communisme et nationalisme dans les Balkans (2010; later developed into the Macedonian-language study The Macedonian Question from 1944 to the Present).

He has also co-edited major academic volumes, including Entangled Histories of the Balkans, Volume One: National Ideologies and Language Policies (with Roumen Daskalov).