Maya Kosseva

Research assistant 

 

PhD in History, Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski”.
Works as a project coordinator and researcher at IMIR since. Research interests focuse on minority issues, coexistance in a multicultural society, Islam and Christianity at the Balkans, “places of memory” and creation of national mythology.

 

 

 

 

 

Research Experience:

• Religious Diversity and Secular Models in Europe – Innovative Approaches to Law and Policy, http://www.imir-bg.org/index.php?do=research&id=62
• Identities and Modernities in Europe: European and National Identity Construction Programmes, http://fass.kingston.ac.uk/research/european/ime
• The use of racial anti-discrimination laws: gender and citizenship in a multicultural context. http://genderace.ulb.ac.be
• Minority Rights and Inter-Ethnic/Inter Religious Relations in Municipalities with Diverse Population http://www.imir-bg.org/index.php?do=research&id=57
  
  

Summary of Recent Publications

• Collective Memory and Written Sources on the Ottoman conquest of Bulgarian Lands published in a Compendium in Honour of Prof. Tzvetana Geurguieva, Sofia, 2007.
• Collective Memory – A Possible Key To Bulgarian Past XV – XVII c., published in “Minalo” journal, 2002/1
  Minority Rights, Inter-ethnic and Inter-Religious Relations in Municipalities with Diverse Population (co-author), IMIR, Sofia, 2008.