Maria Todorova
Maria Todorova was born in Sofia, Sofia City Province, Bulgaria on January 5th, 1949 and is the Bulgarian Historian. At the age of 75, Maria Todorova biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Professor Maria Todorova is currently the Edward William & Jane Marr Gutgsell Endowed Professor Emerita at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. She specializes in the history of the Balkans in the modern period. Her book Imagining the Balkans (1997) has been translated into fourteen languages, including German, Polish, Greek, Italian, Bulgarian, Turkish, and Albanian.
Todorova's current research revolves around problems of nationalism, especially the symbolism of nationalism, national memory and national heroes in Bulgaria and the Balkans. Between 2007 and 2010, she also led an international research team of scholars on the project Remembering Communism.
She studied history and English at the University of Sofia, and obtained her PhD in 1977. Maria Todorova was subsequently adjunct and visiting professor at various institutions, including Sabanci University in Istanbul and the University of Florida (where she was also professor). She was awarded the prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000. In 2006, Maria Todorova was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. In 2022, Maria Todorova was inducted into The American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Todorova also won the 2022 Distinguished Contributions to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies Award from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES) in recognition of her teaching, scholarship, service to the field, and position as "arguably the foremost historian of southeastern Europe in the world today."