(University of Graz - Austria) History of Central and Southeastern Europe; Bulgarian-Austrian and Balkan-Austrian relations. harald.heppner@uni-graz.at
Prof. Dr. Bernard Lory
(National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations – Paris, France) Modern and Contemporary history; history of the Balkans and Bulgaria in modern and contemporary times; Ottoman studies.
Prof. D.Sc. Hrvojka Mihanović-Salopek
(Institute for the History of Croatian Literature, Theater and Music of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts – Zagreb, Croatia) Croatian literature; hymnology; Croatian cultural history; Slavic studies. hrvmihan@hazu.hr
Prof. Dr. Günter Prinzing
(“Johannes Gutenberg” University of Mainz, Germany) History of Byzantium; Relations between Byzantium and Southeastern, Eastern and Central Europe; history of church; history of literature. prinzing@uni-mainz.de
Prof. Dr. Helmut Schaller
(University of Marburg – Germany) Slavic and Balkan Linguistics; Balkan Studies; Slavic Studies; Old Bulgarian Studies. schalleh@staff.uni-marburg.de
Prof. Dr. Elena Siupiur
(Romanian Academy – Bucharest, Romania) Cultural history of Romania; Bulgarian – Romanian relations in the 19th century. elena.siupiur@gmail.com
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Serhiy Strashniuk
(“V. N. Karazin” Kharkiv National University, History Faculty – Kharkiv, Ukraine) History of the Balkan countries; history of Slavic studies; international relations. drinovcenter@gmail.com
Prof. Dr. Arnold Suppan
(Austrian Academy of Sciences – Vienna, Austria) Modern and Contemporary history; history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe in the 20th century. arnold.suppan@oeaw.ac.at
Prof. Dr. Maria Todorova
(University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign, USA) Modern history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe; history of the Ottoman Empire; history of nationalism; social and cultural history; historical demography; nostalgia and memory. mtodorov@illinois.edu
Prof. D.Sc. Tatyana Volokitina
(Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences – Moscow, Russia) Contemporary history of Bulgaria and Eastern Europe; political and social history after WWII; history of Eastern European social democracy; state-church relations in Eastern Europe. wolokitina.tatjana@yandex.ru
Prof. D.Sc. Elžbieta Znamierowska-Rakk
(Polish Academy of Sciences – Warsaw, Poland) Modern and contemporary history of Eastern and Southeastern Europe; history of Bulgaria; Poland's relations with Bulgaria and the Balkans in the 20th century. eznamierowska@wp.pl