Faculty and Staff
Maria Todorova
Professor of History
Professor Maria Todorova is a Professor of History at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of the Balkans in the modern period. Her publications include Imagining the Balkans, (Oxford University Press, 1997), Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria (American U Press, 1993), English Travelers' Accounts on the Balkans (16th-19th c.) (In Bulgarian, Sofia, 1987), England, Russia, and the Tanzimat (in Russian, Moscow, 1983; in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1980), Historians on History (in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1988), Selected Sources for Balkan History (in Bulgarian, Sofia, 1977), as well as 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. Her current research revolves around problems of nationalism, especially the symbology of nationalism, national memory and national heroes in Bulgaria and the Balkans. Professor Todorova received her doctorate from the University of Sofia (1977).
Please visit her web site at: https://netfiles.uiuc.edu/mtodorov/www/