Is a Voluntary Population Exchange Possible? The Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece

“Is a Voluntary Population Exchange Possible? The Emigration of Minorities between Bulgaria and Greece, 1919-1925.” Theodora Dragostinova received her B.A. in History and Archaeology from the University of Athens, Greece (1998), her M.A. in History from the University of Florida (2000), and her Ph.D. in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2005). She joined the Department of History in 2007 as an Assistant Professor of Eastern European history. Her work focuses on nation-building, refugee movements, and minority politics in Eastern Europe, with a particular emphasis on the Balkans. Professor Dragostinova is completing a book manuscript entitled “Between Two Motherlands: Nationality and Emigration among the Greeks of Bulgaria, 1900-1949.” The dissertation on which her book manuscript is based received the John O. Iatrides Prize from the Modern Greek Studies Association for the best English-language dissertation on a Greek topic.

Speaker: 102 Luce