Charleston: Assessing Communist and Post-Communist Bulgaria

27 Lockwood Drive,Charleston SC 29401

04 May, 2021

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AIER's Bastiat Society of Charleston invites you to an event with Irina Gigova. AIER's Bastiat Society of Charleston invites you to an event with Irina Gigova. More information to come. Eventbrite registration required. __________________________ About the Speaker: Irina Gigova is an Associate Professor of History at the College of Charleston. Born in Bulgaria, she studied at the newly minted American University in Bulgaria and Central European University in Hungary prior to pursuing a Ph.D. at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She arrived at the College of Charleston in 2004, where she has taught surveys of European and Eastern European history, as well as classes focused on cities and urban development, the Cold War, fascism and nationalism. She has published articles on Bulgarian and East European social and cultural history and is working on a book manuscript that uses a generation of writers’ lives and social activities to study processes of state-building, political transition and cultural production in the modern age. She is married to a fellow historian and has two teenage daughters.