Marija Todorova is Gutgsell Professor Emerita of History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The Imaginary Balkans (revised edition, 2009), translated into 15 languages; Bones of Contention: The Living Archive of Vasil Levski and the Making of Bulgaria's National Hero (2009); Balkan Family Structure and the European Pattern: Demographic Developments in Ottoman Bulgaria (revised edition, 2006); Scaling the Balkans: Essays on Eastern European En- tanglements (2018); The Lost World of Socialists at Europe’s Margins: Imagining Utopia (2020). She has led major international research projects, resulting in several editorial and co-editor editions of the following books: Balkan Identities: Nation and Memory (2002); Remembering Communism: Genres of Representation (2010); Postcommunist Nostalgia (2010); Remembering Communism: Private and Public Recollections of Lived Experiences in Southeastern Europe (2014). She has received awards from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Advanced Study in Berlin, the National Humanities Center, the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the Institute for Social Sciences in Vienna. She has received honorary degrees from the European University Institute in Italy, the University of Sofia, and the Panteion University in Greece. She received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (2022) and was elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2022).