Curriculum Vitae of Ivan Ilchev Born on June 25, 1953 in Sofia, Bulgaria. Academic career: 2012- Corresponding member of the Bulgarian Academy of science 1996- Full Professor in Modern Balkan History, Department of History, Sofia University 1986-1996 Associate Professor 1982-1986 - Chief Assist. Prof. in History 1978-1982 - Assist Prof. in History Professional career: 2014 President of the Consortium China-East and Central Europe Universities 2015 President of the Balkan Universities Association 2014 Doctor Honoris Causa of Kiev University Mihail Dragomanov. 2011 Doctor Honoris Causa of Yerevan State University, Armenia 2007 2015 Rector of Sofia University 2005 Member of the degree awarding committee in library and information sciences 2005 Member of the steering public committee at the Bulgarian National television
2004 Chairman of the steering public committee at the Bulgarian National radio. 2004 - Member of the degree awarding committee in modern history 2003 2007 - Dean of the History Faculty of Sofia University. 2003 Chairman of the degree awarding committee in the Faculty of history /with the rank of an independent degree awarding committee/ 2003 - Member of the degree awarding committee in Balkan studies 1999-2003 Member of the degree awarding committee in ethnography 1997-2003 Member of the degree awarding higher committee at the Council of Ministers for history 1990-1994 Member of the degree awarding committee in journalism 1986-1990 Member of the degree awarding committee in political sciences 1992-2001 - Co-ordinator of the Princeton based Project on Ethnic Relations /on a part-time basis/. Education: 1994 - Doctor of Historical Sciences 1982 - PhD 1978- Graduated the History Department of Sofia University with a M.A. equivalent. 1972 - Graduated the English Language School in Sofia.
Language proficiency: Russian, English, French, Serbo-Croatian, German, Roumanian /in an order of diminishing but functional usage/. Fields of interest: Diplomatic History of the Balkans, social and intellectual history of the Balkans, history and theory of propaganda, history of advertising, history of modern popular culture in the Balkans, microhistory. Major fellowships: 2009-2010 Visiting Professor International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki, Greece, teaching history of the Black Sea. 2005 Visiting Professor, Toronto University, Canada 2001, July-August Visiting Professor, Jesus Christ College, Oxford University 2001 Grant of the Institute for history textbooks Braunschweig, Germany. 1998, September-1999, September - Visiting Professor, Chiba University, Japan teaching Balkan history 1995- Visiting Professor, Leipzig University, Germany 1993 - A Salzburg Seminar Fellow 1992 - The Rockfeller Foundation Fellowship in Bellagio, Italy. 1990, September -1991, July - Visiting Professor, the W. Wilson Center at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D. C. 1988 - The Erasmus Foundation Fellowship in England. 1984, September -1986, July - A Fulbright Professor at Ohio State University and the University of Maryland, reading lectures on modern history of the Balkans. 1984 - A Grant of the Great Britain/East Europe Center.
1982-1983 - A Fellowship of the French Ministry of Culture 1981 Грант of the British Council Read lectures or cycles of lectures in : 1985 University of Indiana; 1985 Myrtle beach, South Carolina; 1986; Durham, Soujh Carolina; Mc Gill, Canada; George Washington 1990; American Naval Academy 1991; Indiana University Northwest 1991; University of Barcelona, Spain 1996; University of Belgrade, Serbia, 1996, 2001, 2007; University of Athens, 1997, 2005; University of Skopje, Macedonia; Loondon, 1998; Center for Slavic studies Sapporo, 1999, Кобе 1999, Kobe University, Japan 2000, Kyoto University, Japan 2000; Universite Libre de Bruxelles 2001; Universite Paris Huit, France, 2006; University of Novi Sad, Serbia 2007; University of Vienna 2007; University of Istanbul 2009; University of Thrace, Turkey 2008; University of Kluj- Napoca, Romania 2009; University of Nish, Serbia 2010; University of Freiburg, Germany 2011,; University of Saarbrucken, Germany 2011, University of Bucharest 2011; Aristotles University of Thessaloniki 2011, Mongolian National University 2012; Croatian National University, Zagreb; Mational University of Slovenia, Ljubljana 2013; University of Haifa, Israel, 2016 etc. Consultant of 15 PhD and tens of MAs
Selected Publications of Ivan Ilchev Monographs: 2015. Iσtopia thσ Boyλγapiασ. Eπικεητρο, 2015. /with G. Bakalov, Hr. Matanov, Pl. Mitev and R. Marinova-Hristidi. 2008. University of Sofia St Kliment Ohridski the first 120 Years /with V. Kolev, E. Kalinova, I. Baeva, Tz. Todorova/ Sofia 2008 2005. The Rose of the Balkans. A Short History of Bulgaria. Sofia, 2005 2005. History of Sofia University /with V. Kolev, E. Kalinova and I. Baeva/. Sofia, 2006. 2005. History of the Bulgarian Parliament 1879-2005 /with V. Kolev and V. Iancev/. Sofia, 2005. 2005. Time of Changes. Ilia Vankov of Biala Cerkva and the the Best of Times in Bulgarian history. Sofia, 2005. * 2003 - Touches of America. The US and the Bulgarians 1830s-1918 /co-author with Pl. Mitev/, Sofia, 2003.* 2002 - La rose des Balkans. Histoire de la Bulgarie des origins à nos jours. Colibri, Sofia, 2002 /2004/. 2002. The Most Important Bulgarians of the 20th c. /co-author/. Sofia, 2002. * 1995 - My Country - Right or Wrong! The International Propaganda of the Balkan States 1821-1923. University Press, Sofia, 1995*. (Published in Romanian as Are Dreptate sau nu, e patria mea! Propaganda in politica externa a tarilor balcanice 1821-1923. Bucuresti, 2002 and in Greek 2011. Exei δίkio η πatρίδa μou. Epikentro, Thessaloniki, 2011) 1995 - Advertising in Bulgaria in the 19th century. An attempt in Social History. The Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Press, 1995*.
1990 - Bulgaria and the Entente Powers in the First World War. Sofia, 1990*. 1990 - Winston Churchill and the Balkans /co-author with G. Gounev/. Sofia, 1990*. Selected Articles 2016.The Balkans in World War I World War I 1914-1918. 40 th International Congress of Military History 31 August-5 September 2014. Varna, Bulgaria. Sofia, 2016. 2015. Die Carnegie-Mission von 1913: Ausgangslage, Durchführung und internationale Reaktionen. 2015. In: Der Carnegie Report on the Causes and Conduct of the Balkan Wars 1912/13. Wirkungs- und Rezeptions-geschichte im Völkerrecht und der Historiographie. Herausgegeben vondietmar Müller und Stefan Troebst. Leipzig 2014. 2014. Bulgaria in the First World War Europe s Fraternal War 1914-1918. Budapest, 2014.