Kristina Ivanova Petrova, Assist.
General Information
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Research interests:
- onomastics
- anthroponymy
- toponymy
- etimology
Education and professional experience
Education and professional experience
2007 – 2012: SWU “Neofit Rilski” Blagoevgrad. Faculty of Philology (Philological Department). Master’s degree in Slavic Philology with Serbian and Croatian
2012 – 2013: SWU “Neofit Rilski” Blagoevgrad. Faculty of Philology . Master’s degree in Journalism and Mass media
2016 – 2019: Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. L. Andreychin”- Philologist-expert in the Department of Applied Оnomastics
2019 – ongoing: Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. L. Andreychin”- Assistant Professor in the Department of Оnomastics
2019 – ongoing: Institute for Bulgarian Language “Prof. L. Andreychin”- full-time PhD student in the Department of Оnomastics
Research
Research projects
Toponymy of Western Bulgaria: Evidences of National Identity (2014 – 2017), Institute for Bulgarian Language, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, member of the research team
The Thracians – Genesis and Development of Ethnic Group, Cultural identities, Civilizational Interactions and Heritage from Antiquity (May 2016 – May 2019), Subtopic 8: “Traces of the Thracian language in the Bulgarian Onomastics”, Inter-academic and international project with participation of 21 institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, funded by a private donation, member of the research team
Project “Written remains. Write correctly”
The project is financed within the activity bringing modern methods in education and work with young talents “ (April 2017- December 2017; project coordinator: Prof. Svetla Koeva)