About
Konstantin Boshnakov is a historian and classical scholar whose work is dedicated to deepening our understanding of ancient Thrace and its place within the wider ancient world. Trained at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, where he earned his PhD in Ancient History (1993) and achieved academic tenure as Associate Professor (2001), he later completed a second doctoral degree (DHistSc) in 2004. His career as a college and university professor and as an interdisciplinary researcher spans Bulgaria, Germany, and Canada, reflecting a sustained commitment to international scholarship and collaboration.
Aa a recipient of research awards from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he has held visiting and research appointments at leading institutions, including Heidelberg University, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, the Free University of Berlin, the Catholic University of Eichstätt–Ingolstadt, and Saarland University. In Canada, he has taught at the University of Toronto, Brock University, Toronto Metropolitan University, and several public colleges. Since 2016, he has been a full-time faculty member in the School of Interdisciplinary Studies at Conestoga College, where he teaches Classical Civilization, Classical Mythology, Religious Studies, and Research Methods.
Boshnakov’s fieldwork as a member of German–Bulgarian and French–Bulgarian archaeological teams, along with extensive research in museum collections, manuscript departments, and libraries, has produced studies on the political and cultural history of ancient Thrace, as well as the historical geography and mapmaking of the Black Sea region. His work combines text-critical analysis of literary accounts with epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological evidence, together with the application of visual-analytical and imaging approaches, offering new insights into how local traditions and Greek culture interacted across the ancient Balkans and beyond.
Research areas
- History of Ancient Thrace
- Thracian royal dynasties
- Thracian religion and visual narratives
- Historical geography of the Black Sea region and ancient Thrace
- Ancient geographical literature
- Mental and physical mapmaking
- Greek colonization and the Greek polis
- Greek epigraphy
- Hellenistic culture
- Ancient cognitive history
- Methodology of textual criticism
- Analogical reasoning
Memberships
- Ernst-Kirsten-Gesellschaft (International Society for Historical Geography of the Ancient World)
- Humboldt Association of Bulgaria
- Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS)
