Georgeta Nazarska is Associate Professor in Social and Cultural History, Cultural Heritage Department, State University of Library Studies and IT, Sofia. She holds an M.A. degree in History (1993) and Ph.D. in Modern and Contemporary Bulgarian History (1996), Sofia University. Fields of interest: political institutions, ethnic and religious minorities, social history, gender studies. Researcher in numerous projects, including: “Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Immigration and the Role of Trade Unions in Combating Discrimination and Xenophobia, in Encouraging Participation and in Securing Social Inclusion and Citizenship (RITU),” “Changing Interests and Identities in European Border Regions: EU Policies, Ethnic Minorities and Socio-political Transformation in Member States and Accession Countries (EUROREG)”.

Main publications:

Zeliazkova, А. B. Alexiev. G. Nazarska. Miusiulmanskite obstnosti na Balkanite i v Bulgaria [The Muslim Communities on the Balkans and in Bulgaria]. Sofia, 1997, p. 113 – 235.

Nazarska, G. Balgarskata darzava i nejnite maltsinstva 1879-1885. [The Bulgarian State and its Minorities 1879-1885]. Sofia, 1999.

Nazarska, G. Universitetskoto obrazovanie i balgarskite zheni 1879-1944 [The University Education and Bulgarian Women 1879-1944] Sofia: IMIR, 2003.

Sindikatite srestu rasizma i diskriminatsiata [Trade Unions against Racism and Discrimination], Sofia: IMIR, 2005, pp. 60-89.

Daskalova, Kr., G. Nazarska. Zhensko dvizhenie i feminizmi v Balgaria (sredata na 19-sredata na 20 vek) [Women’s Movement and Feminisms in Modern Bulgaria (1850s-1940s)], Sofia: Polis, 2006.

Zhelyazkova, A., N. Daskalova, G. Nazarska, O. Avramov. Racial and Ethnic Minorities, Immigration and the Role of Trade Unions in Combating Discrimination and Xenophobia. – In: Encouraging Participation and in Securing Social Inclusion and Citizenship. Workpackage 1. 2003.

Lozanova, G., B. Alexiev, G. Nazarska, E. Troeva-Grigorova and I. Kyurkchieva. Regions, Minorities and European Integration. A Case Study on Muslim Minorities (Turks and Muslim Bulgarians) in the South Central Region of Bulgaria. – Romanian Journal of Political Science. Bucharest: Romanian Academic Society, vol. 6, No 1, Spring 2006 (2007), pp. 24-58.

Nazarska, G. Bulgarian Association of University Women 1924-1950. – Aspasia. International Yearbook for Women’s and Gender History of Central, Eastern and South Eastern Europe, 2007, vol. 1, 153-175.

Nazarska, G. Bulgarian Women Medical Doctors in the Social Modernization of the Bulgarian Nation State (1878-1944). – Historical Social Research/Historische Sozialforschung (Köln), 2008, vol.33, ser. 2, 232-248.

Nazarska, G. Women, Gender and Post-Secondary Education: South Eastern Europe. – In: Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures. Leiden-Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2007, vol.4., 326-330.

Nazarska, G. Ekaterina Zlatoustova. – In: (eds. De Haan, Fr., Kr. Daskalova, A.Loutfi) A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe: 19th – 20th Centuries. Budapest, New York: CEU Press, 2006, pp. 624-627.

Nazarska, G. Elissaveta Karamichailova. – In: (eds. De Haan, Fr., Kr. Daskalova, A.Loutfi) A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe: 19th – 20th Centuries. Budapest, New York: CEU Press, 2006, pp. 222-225.

Nazarska, G. Ljuben Karavelov. – In: (eds. De Haan, Fr., Kr. Daskalova, A.Loutfi) A Biographical Dictionary of Women’s Movements and Feminisms. Central, Eastern, and Southeastern Europe: 19th – 20th Centuries. Budapest, New York: CEU Press, 2006, pp. 226-229.