Book Prize

2023 Call for Nominations: John D. Bell Book Prize

The Bulgarian Studies Association announces a call for nominations for the John D. Bell BSA Book Prize. This award is given annually for the best book on Bulgarian topics in any field. Books that are nominated this ye...
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2022 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize

The Bulgarian Studies Association is pleased to announce that Mary Neuburger’s book “Ingredients of Change. The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria”, published by the Cornell University Press: Ithaca and Lo...
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Book Prize Award 2018

The Bulgarian Studies Association awarded its 2018 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize to Anna Mirkova’s book: Muslim land, Christian labor : Transforming Ottoman imperial Subjects Into Bulgarian National Citizens, 1878-...
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Book Prize Awards 2017

The winner of the 2017 John D Bell Book Prize is Adelina Anguševa, Margaret Dimitrova, Maria Jovčeva, Maja Petrova-Taneva, and Diljana Radoslavova, eds. Vis et sapient: Studia in honorem Anisavae Miltenova. Novi izvor...
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Book Prize Awards 1998-2016

2015-2016 The Book Prize Committee has not awarded the prize in 2015 and 2016. 2014 The Bulgarian Studies Association awarded its 2014 John D. Bell Memorial Book Prize to Elena Kostova’s book, Medieval Melnik from the...
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