Publications

Koleva, D. 2025. ‘At Least Our Pituitaries Will See the World’: Pituitary Gland Export from Communist Bulgaria. Medical History, First view, 1–14.

Koleva, D. 2025. Constructing Old Age in Communist Bulgaria: Ideology, Policy, Science. Journal of Contemporary History, Online First.

Kassabova, A., Nencheva, D., & Střelec, J. (Eds.).2025. NEGOTIATING TRADITION AND INNOVATION: Medical Pluralism and Healthcare Transformations in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Balkanistic Worlds, l (3), 1–313.

Kassabova, Anelia. 2025. Sexual Norms, Abortion, and Patriarchal Morality. Bulgarian Customary and Codified Law from the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries. Bulgarian ethnology, 2024, 47 (4), 400–420.

Nencheva, Denitsa. 2025. International Academic Conference on the Topic “Transformations of Postwar Europe: Medicine Bodies and Technologies”, Sofia 27 – 30 May 2024. Bulgarian Ethnology, 2024, 47 (3), 343–348.

Savova, Slava. 2024. Neither Nature Nor Progress: Unearthing Memories and Affects on the Flowering Benches of Kremikovtsi Open-pit Mine. Mediapolis – А Journal of Cities and Culture, 9 (2).

Nencheva, Denitsa. 2024. The Geriatric Patient under the Frame of Modern Medical Methodologism: Expert Discourses, Practical Applications, and Philosophical Implications. Notabene, 65, 63–80.

Kassabova, Anelia, Popova, Kristina, Angelova, Milena. 2024. The Long and Short Twentieth Century: an Exploration of Institutional Care. In Balkanistic Forum 33 (3), 9–13).

Kassabova, Anelia, Kristina Popova, Milena Angelova (eds.) 2024. Institutional Care in Europe in the 20th Century. Balkanistic Forum, 2024, Issue 3.

Koleva, Daniela. 2023. How Can Care Produce Inequality? The Privileges of the “Active Fighters Against Fascism and Capitalism”. Südost-forschungen, 82 (1), 26–46. https://doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2023-820104

Popova, Kristina. 2023. Ergotherapy and/or Unpaid Work in Closed Institutions for Children with Disabilities in Bulgaria in the 1950s–1960s. Südost-forschungen, 82 (1), 76–92. https://doi.org/10.1515/sofo-2023-820106

Anchova, Kalina. 2023. Poliomyelitis in Bulgaria – Epidemics and Health Policies (40s – 60s of the 20th Century). Bulgarian ethnology, issue 2, 151 – 169.

Piskova, Mariyana. 2023. Archival Reading of the Visible and Invisible Images and Traces of (or about) Social Care and Health Care in Bulgaria in the Period 1945-1989. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 2, 170 – 188. 

Pires, Tiago. 2023. Decolonization of Mental Health? The Early Days of an Ongoing Process from a Global Historical Perspective. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 2, 189 – 209.

Gamza, Volodimir. 2023. The Problems of Medicine and Healthcare in the USSR after the Second World War on the Pages of the Soviet Specialized Press. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 2, 229 – 246.

Panova, Ivelina, Kassabova, Anelia, & Popova, Kristina. 2023. “The abandoned children of Bulgaria have no one.once there was no one to complain about them, and we were their parents”. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 2, 247 – 258.

Kassabova. Anelia, Daniela Koleva. 2023. Socialist Modernization: Institutions and Life Paths. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 5 – 10.

Bankova, Mila. 2023. The “Modernization” of the Menstruating Female Body During the Period of State Socialism. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 11 – 29.

Todorov, Georgi. 2023. “Our Inmate won from TOTO-2”. About the Life in Home № 8 for Children and Adolescents with Mental Disabilities in Sofia. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 30 – 47.

Ilieva, Radina. 2023. Children’s Health Camp in Bulgaria During the Socialist Period. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 48 – 65.

Brisku, Inxhi. 2023. Establishment and Operation of the First Elders’ Care Institution in Albania. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 66 – 82.

Petrov, Ignat. 2023. Self-Assessments, Values and Mental Health of Elderly People from the Bulgarian Rural Population. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 83 – 100.

Todorov, Georgi. 2023. Heiner Fangerau, Anke Dreier-Horning, Volker Hess, Karsten Laudien, Maike Rotzoll (Hrsg). Leid und Unrecht. Kinder und Jugendliche in Behindertenhilfe und Psychiatrie der BRD und DDR 1949 bis 1990. Köln, 2021. Bulgarian Ethnology, issue 1, 125 – 128.

Koleva, Daniela, Ignat Petrov. 2023. Socialist gerontology? Or gerontology during socialism? The Bulgarian case. History of the Human Sciences, 36(3-4), 178-201.

Hering, Sabine, und Anelia Kassabova. 2023. Erziehung zu ,Zucht und Ordnung’. Mädchenfürsorge in Deutschland (1871–1970). L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschrift für Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft, 34. Jg., Heft 1.

Kassabova, Anelia und Sandra Maß: Kinder in Heimen. Editorial. L’Homme. European Journal of Feminist History 34, 1 (2023), 7-18.

Popova, Kristina. 2023. Geschlossene Einrichtungen und soziale Fürsorge für Mädchen in Bulgarien in der ersten Hälfte des 20. Jahrhunderts. L’Homme. Europäische Zeitschriftfür Feministische Geschichtswissenschaft 34·Jahrgang,Heft 1.

Kassabova, Anelia. 2023. The Bulgarian Socialist Reproductive Policies -Structures, Persons, Strategies. Balkanistic Forum, 32 (1), 145–164.

Георгиев, Минчо, Анелия Касабова. 2021. Д-р Владимир Калайджиев или въплъщаването на модерността. Балканистичен форум, 30 (3), 125–147.

Касабова, Анелия. 2021. Как пандемията COVID-19 стимулира интердисциплинарни научни изследвания. В: Баева, В., А. Илиева (съст. и ред.). Етнология и епидемии. Социокултурни измерения на пандемията от COVID-19. Издателство на БАН “Проф. Марин Дринов”, ISBN 978-619-245-094-6, 39–50.

Koleva, Daniela. 2021. Dagmar Gramshammer-Hohl and Oana Hergenröther. (Eds.) Foreign Countries of Old Age: East and Southeast European Perspectives on Aging. Aging Studies, vol. 19. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2021. Bulgarian Ethnology, 4, 632–637 (in Bulgarian).

Popova, Kristina. 2020. The “Curative-Protective Hospital Regime” Concept in the Medical and Nursing Practice of 1950s USSR. European Journal for Nursing History and Ethics, 2, DOI: 10.25974/enhe2020-4en 

Kassabova, Anelia. 2021. Teresa Kulawik u. Zhanna Kravchenko (Hg.), Boderlands in European Gender Studies. Beyond the East-West Frontier. In: L’Homme. Europaeische Zeitschrift fuer feministische Geschichtswissenschaft. Jg. 32, Hf. 1, 170 – 174.