Violeta Periklieva

Violeta Periklieva, PhD, is a philologist and ethnologist, currently an assistant professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. She has an extensive fieldwork experience among various ethnic, religious and local communities in Bulgaria, North Macedonia, Croatia and Kosovo. Her research interests include migration and mobility, border studies, anthropology of religion, identity, cultural heritage. Violeta Periklieva partici-pated in several research projects on topics in these fields of interest. In 2013, she was awarded the Academician Ivan Evstratiev Geshov Award for Youngest Scientist by the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences.