Balkans, and politics is significantly and organically intertwined with this discourse. When confronted with this idea, people may feel somewhat uneasy, especially on the political scene ... The most gratifying response to me came from a very good British journalist, Misha Glenny, who has written well and extensively on the Balkans. He said, 'You know, now that I look back, I have been guilty of Balkanism,' which was a really honest intellectual response. Selected works Her publications include: Historians on History (in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1988), Selected Sources for Balkan History (in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1977) England, Russia, and the Tanzimat (in Russian, Moscow, 1983; in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1980) English Travelers' Accounts on the Balkans (16th-19th c.) (in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1987) Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria, Central European University Press, 2006 [1993] Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory, Hurst, London & New York University Press, 2004 "The Mausoleum of Georgi Dimitrov as lieu de mémoire," The Journal of Modern History Vol. 78, No. 2, June 2006 Bones of Contention: the Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2009 Postcommunist Nostalgia, Maria Todorova and Zsuzsa Gille (Eds.) Berghahn Books, 2010 Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation. Social Science Research Council, 2010 Post-Communist Nostalgia. Berghahn Books 2012, ISBN 978-0857456434. Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experience in Southeast Europe, (with Augusta Dimou and Stefan Troebst), CEU Press, 2014 The Bulgarian case: Women’s issues or feminist issues? (2017) In Gender Politics and Post-Communism: Reflections from Eastern Europe and the Former Soviet Union (pp. 30–38). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429425776-4 The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia, 1870s–1920s. Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350150362 Todorova has also edited volumes, and numerous articles and essays on social and cultural history, historical demography, and historiography of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries. In 2017, she has been awarded an Honorary Doctor by Panteion University in Athens. References External links Official Website Faculty Page at the UIUC Short interview Review of ''Remembering Communism'' "Daring to Remember Bulgaria, pre-1989," an article in The Guardian from 9 November 2009 1949 births Living people 20th-century Bulgarian historians Sofia University alumni Bulgarian emigrants to the United States University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty