Diana Gergova

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GENERAL INFORMATION

  • Name: Diana Spassova Gergova
  • Date of birth: April, 26th, 1948
  • Place of birth: Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Nationality: Bulgarian
  • Marital status: Divorced. One son, Spasimir Domaradzki, student of Political Sciences, Jagellonian University of Krakow, Poland
  • Adress: 3, Varbica str., 1504, Sofia, Bulgaria
  • Phone numbers: (+359 2) 944-38-29 - home. (+359 2) 988-24-05-fax
  • E-mail: dianagergova@hotmail.com

    EDUCATION QUALIFICATION

  • 1961- 1967 English Language School, Sofia
  • 1967- 1971 Diploma of the History Faculty in History and Archaeology - "St. Kliment Ohridski "University of Sofia, Bulgaria

    PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

  • 1972-1977 Doctorant at the Institute of Aechaeology and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, PhD.
  • 1977-1978 archaeologist at the Regional History Museum, Blagoevgrad
  • since 1978 till 1985 Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia
  • since 1985 till now Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. Sofia
  • since 1998 till now Visiting Professor at the "St.st Cyril and Methodius" University of Veliko Tarnovo
  • since 1998 till now Professor at the New Bulgarian University, Sofia
  • 1999- 2000 Visiting Professor at the Tokai University, Japan

    CONCENTRATION

    Thracian Archaeology, Archaeology of the Cult during the Bronze and Iron Age, Comparative stidies in Religion, Ancient Thrace and its European, Mediterranean and Asian connections, Interdisciplinary Approaches in Archaeology, Cultural Legislation, Cultural Heritage Management, Preservation Movement.

    PUBLICATIONS

    Over 120 articles in Bulgarian and International Magazines Two monographs: Fruh- und Ureisenzeitlichen Fibeln aus Bulgarien, Beck, Munich, 1985, The Rite of the Immortalization in Ancient Thrace, Agato, Sofia, 1996

    EXCAVATIONS

    Head of expeditions in the W Rhodopi Mountain, along the Struma Valley (Bulgarian- Polish Project) at the Thracian town of Kabile, at the Dyadovo tell (Bulgarian-Japanese project), at the Sboryanovo Reservation (NE Bulgaria), in Tuva (Russia), at Ahtopol and Strandja mountain, Bulgarian-Italian Geoarchaeological investigations and others.

    EXHIBITIONS

    Organizer of Thracian exhibitions in Bulgaria, Warsaw (1976) Dumbarton Oaks (1981), Bonn and Mainz (1988), St. Romain- en- Gal (1998), Tokyo University Museum (2000)

    LECTURES

    Lectures on Thracian culture at Universities and Institutes in Bulgaria, Poland, Russia, England, Germany, Japan.

    DOCUMENTARY FILMS

    Author and consultant of 5 Bulgarian and BBC films on Thracian culture

    PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATION

  • 1983 3 months specialisation in USSR- Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad
  • 1989 1 month specialization in England, British Academy
  • 1990 1 month specialization in Italy, CNR
  • 1998 1 month specialisation in France, Ministry of Culture
  • 1999-2000 12 months scholarship of Japan Cultural Assocition, Japan
  • 2001 2 months DAI scholarship in Rome

    MEMBERSHIP

  • Member of the Bulgaria ICOMOS Committee
  • Member of the International Shinto Foundation, associated with the UN
  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the International Association for Funeral Studies
  • Member of the National Committee for Monuments of culture Ministry of Culture

    PARTICIPATION

    International congresses and conferences Working groups on the Bulgarian Cultural Legislation Workshops organised by the Council of Europe

    LANGUAGES

    Bulgarian, English, Russian, Polish, French,

    AWARDS

    Professional and Business Woman in Archaeology of the American Biographical Institute-2001