Nikolai Vukov

Born in 1971, in Sofia, Bulgaria

Ph.D. student, History Department, Central European University, Budapest

Dissertation: Monuments between Life and Death: Monuments of the Socialist Past in post-1989 Bulgaria

Associate Researcher, Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Field of research: Kinship Relationships in Bulgarian Folklore Epics

Scholarship at the Central European University, Budapest, 1998–2003

Research Grant at the Karl-Franzens University, Department for South-East European History, Graz, Austria, October-December, 2000

Participation in international conferences and symposia in Serbia, Hungary, Turkey, the Netherlands and the United States

Articles and papers on theoretical issues related to kinship and kinship relationships in the anthropological discourse (Bulgaria); on kinship relationships in the folklore epics (Bulgaria and Serbia); on memory, death and representation in the monuments of the socialist past after 1989 (Hungary, Turkey, Romania, and the United States)

Paper: Death And Vitality In Monumental Art In Eastern Europe After The Second World War

e-mail: malkiamuk@yahoo.com