Who Made What? Who Controlled Whom? – Stratification of Sofia’s Urban Governance in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries
is an Ottoman Historian and works as a researcher at the Institute of Balkan Studies at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia. She did her MA in Medieval Studies from the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and another MA degree in History from the University SS Cyril and Methodius from Turnovo University, Bulgaria. She received her PhD with a dissertation entitled Administrative Structure and Government in Rumelia during Sultan Mahmoud II’s Reign, 1808–1839. Georgieva has been visiting researcher at the Universities of Heidelberg, Ankara (Bilkent), and a fellow of the New Europe College in Bucharest. She has published numerous articles on the Ottoman History of the Balkans. A book based on her PhD thesis is forthcoming and will be published with the University of Crete Press.
During her fellowship in Berlin Georgieva will work on the theme Who Made What? Who Controlled Whom? – Stratification of Sofia’s Urban Governance in the Late 18th and Early 19th Centuries.
