Curriculum Vitae
Personal information
Name: Gergana Dimitrova;
Citizenship: Bulgarian
Date of birth: 30 January 1975
Gender: Female
Education
September 1999 - September 2008
Degree awarded: Ph.D.
Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary
Main subjects: European Studies; International Relations;
International Political Economy; Political Science
Thesis Title: "From Bright Light to Blackout: The
Influence of the Europeanization Paradigm on Bulgarian Foreign Policy and Transport and Energy
Infrastructure Policy".
Research focus on the impact of Europeanization
processes and EU enlargement conditionality on policymaking in Balkan countries. In-depth empirical
research on the impact of EU accession conditionality on selected policy areas in Bulgaria.
September 1998 - June 1999
Degree awarded: Master of Arts in International Relations
and European Studies
Central European
University, Budapest, Hungary
Main subjects: International Relations; European Studies;
International Political Economy
September 1993 - September 1997
Degree awarded: Higher Education Degree in International
Economic Relations, 4-year course of study
University of Economics,
Varna, Bulgaria
Main subjects: International Political Economy;
Economics; International Relations
Additional training
March 2002 - March 2003
International Policy Fellowships at the Open Society
Institute, Budapest, Hungary and the Center for Policy Studies, Budapest, Hungary
2002/2003 International Policy Fellowships
Program, including four intensive two-week seminars on policy analysis and policy-oriented research
October/November 1999 and May 2000
European Political-Economy Infrastructure Consortium
(EPIC); London School of Economics, London, Great Britain
Two EPIC Advanced Research Workshops focused
on research methods in social science research
Teaching experience
September 2002 - June 2003; September 2003 - June
2004; September 2004 - January 2005; February 2006 - June 2006
Masaryk University, Brno,
Czech Republic
Lecturer and seminar
instructor (part-time: individual courses); Main subjects: theories of
International Relations
Publications in refereed academic journals
Dimitrova, Gergana. 2002.
"The Limits of Europeanization: Hegemony and its Misuse in the
Political Field of Bulgaria." Journal of Southeast European
and Black Sea Studies 2 (2): 69-92
Cisarova-Dimitrova, Gergana. 2003. "International
Assistance to Southeast Europe: Solution of the Problems or Part of the Problem?"
Dialog 4: 8-15
(in Bulgarian)
Císařová Dimitrova, Gergana. 2005. "Democracy
and International Intervention in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Středoevropské politické studie
[Central European Political Studies Review] 7 (1): 44-71
Language skills
Mother tongue: Bulgarian
Other languages: excellent knowledge of English; very good knowledge of Czech;
average knowledge of German; good reading and understanding capacity of
Russian and Serbo-Croat
Computer skills
Proficient in MS Word; MS Power Point; Adobe Photoshop;
programs for website creation and design; advanced HTML programming; some knowledge of Javascript
and PHP scripts
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