About
Maria Baramova is an Associate Professor of Early-Modern Balkan History and a Chair of the Department of “Byzantine and Balkan Studies”, Faculty of History, Sofia University. Her research interests include the history of Habsburg-Ottoman relations, geopolitics, warfare and peace treaties in the Early Modern period, and Digital Humanities.
From 2003 to 2004, Baramova was a Herder-Prize Fellow at the University of Vienna and, from 2011 to 2012, a research fellow at the Leibniz-Institutе for European History, Mainz. She has also enjoyed extended research stays in Munich, Cologne, Hamburg, and Wolfenbüttel. She is the author of articles and monographs as well as the editor of volumes on the history of Southeastern Europe in the Pre-Modern era.
In 2021 Baramova received the Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for outstanding scientific achievements. As of 2023, she holds the position of leading researcher on a Digital Humanities project team focused on the study of cultural and national heritage.
Research focus
- History of Habsburg-Ottoman relations, geopolitics, warfare, and peace treaties in the Early Modern period, and Digital Humanities.
Awards
- 2021 Academy Prize of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities for outstanding scientific achievements.
Memberships
- Gesellschaft zur Erforschung des 18. Jahrhunderts im südöstlichen Europa
- Bulgarian Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
- International Society for Eighteenth Century Studies
- Danube Environmental History Initiative
- European Society for Environmental History
