prof. Elena Marushiakova-Popova
roma, Roma studies, history and ethnography, Central and Eastern and Southeastern Europe, ethnic and national minorities
Elena Marushiakova works at the Institute of Ethnology and Social Anthropology of the SAS, v. in. i. (from 2023). For the past eight years, she worked at St Andrews University (UK), initially for one year as a Leverhulme visiting professor and then as a research professor and Principal Investigator of the ERC Advanced Grant 2015, Nr. 694656 "Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars". From 2001 to 2004, she worked at the Institute of Ethnology of Leipzig University in Germany as part of the SFB Difference and Integration project. Economical Symbiosis and Cultural Separation: Service Nomads in Rural and Urban Contexts. She was also employed at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with the Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.
2013-2014 she was a Professor Fellow on a scholarship at the international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 2016 at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
In 2010, she was elected president of the prestigious international Gypsy Lore Society (founded in the USA in 1888), which she led for ten years.
She holds the Romanipe Prize (2022) from the Initiative Group for Roma Culture in Bulgaria for her contribution to the research of the Roma community in Bulgaria and the world. Elena Marushiakova is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden (2020) and Fulbright New Century Scholar (2009). Her book (Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov, eds. 2021. Roma Voices in History: A Source Book. Roma Civic Emancipation in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until the Second World War. Leiden: Brill & Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh) received the award of the American Library Association for the Best Historical Materials, published in 2020 and 2021.
Prof. Elena Marushiakova focuses on Roma studies and has carried out field ethnographic and archival research in Central and Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Central Asia. Among her leading publications are the first monographs on the history and ethnography of Roma in Bulgaria (1997), on Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire (2000), a book about Roma in the Black Sea region (2008) and a book about Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus (2016). The results of her ERC project include ten monographic studies, monothematic issues of professional journals and about 40 articles. Elena Marushiakova is the editor and author of six volumes of Roma folklore and oral history, as well as many other books, articles and book chapters, evaluation studies and catalogues for museum exhibitions.
2013-2014 she was a Professor Fellow on a scholarship at the international research centre Work and Human Lifecycle in Global History at the Humboldt University in Berlin and in 2016 at the Imre Kertész Kolleg, Friedrich Schiller University Jena.
In 2010, she was elected president of the prestigious international Gypsy Lore Society (founded in the USA in 1888), which she led for ten years.
She holds the Romanipe Prize (2022) from the Initiative Group for Roma Culture in Bulgaria for her contribution to the research of the Roma community in Bulgaria and the world. Elena Marushiakova is Doctor Honoris Causa of Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden (2020) and Fulbright New Century Scholar (2009). Her book (Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov, eds. 2021. Roma Voices in History: A Source Book. Roma Civic Emancipation in Central, Southeastern and Eastern Europe from the 19th Century until the Second World War. Leiden: Brill & Paderborn: Ferdinand Schöningh) received the award of the American Library Association for the Best Historical Materials, published in 2020 and 2021.
Prof. Elena Marushiakova focuses on Roma studies and has carried out field ethnographic and archival research in Central and Eastern and Southeastern Europe and Central Asia. Among her leading publications are the first monographs on the history and ethnography of Roma in Bulgaria (1997), on Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire (2000), a book about Roma in the Black Sea region (2008) and a book about Gypsies in Central Asia and the Caucasus (2016). The results of her ERC project include ten monographic studies, monothematic issues of professional journals and about 40 articles. Elena Marushiakova is the editor and author of six volumes of Roma folklore and oral history, as well as many other books, articles and book chapters, evaluation studies and catalogues for museum exhibitions.