Ivaylo Ditchev


Ivaylo Ditchev is professor of cultural anthropology at Sofia University, Bulgaria. He has been teaching abroad, mainly in France and the USA. Honorary associate of the Graduate school for East and South-East European studies in Regensburg
He has a PhD from Sofia and Paris-7 universities, began as assistant in aesthetics, then after 1989 became interested in social science focusing on political culture, urban anthropology, and Balkan identity. His latest research interests are citizenship, migration, and the anthropology of space. Directs a MA program in cultural anthropology, publishes the onlinejournal for cultural studies SeminarBG.
Ivaylo Ditchev is also an active columnist in Bulgaria and Germany, author of books of essays and fiction. He was awarded the Essay prizes: « Panitza » 1999; « Chernorizetz Hrabar » 2002, “Dimitar Peshev” - 2005.

Some online articles

Deutsche Welle, My Europe
https://www.dw.com/search/en?searchNavigationId=9097&languageCode=en&origin=gN&item=ditchev
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Articles in the Aspen review: https://www.aspenreview.com/author/ivaylo-ditchev/
The Eros of identity in Balkans as metaphor https://www.academia.edu/37254573/Balkan_as_Mataphor-_Between_Globalization_and_Fragmentationpdf.pdf

Books

"Culture as distance. 11 essays in cultural anthropology" Sofia university, 2016
'Citizens beyond places? New mobilities, new borders, new forms of belonging, Prosveta, 2009