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In 2001 I obtained my Master's Degree in Balkan Studies from the University of Veliko Turnovo "Saints Cyril and Methodious", Bulgaria.  The focus of my current work is the ethnology of socialism and post-socialism in Bulgaria, and I work mainly with oral stories and biographies. I obtained my Ph.D. on December 19, 2012 in Sofia at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. My dissertation is entitled, “Biographic Narratives of Everyday Life in a Socialist Town: A Case Study of Rousse, Bulgaria." The work explores narratives containing memories of everyday life in Rousse during socialism, and it creates an oral history profile of the town during the same period. It brings together different life experiences and assessments of the past and achieves a synthesis of the epoch, and it also challenges the poles of acceptance or rejection of the socialist past.

Since 2009 I have been working as the Administrative Assistant for the "The America for Bulgaria Foundation Archaeological & Anthropological Program" (ABF AAP) in the Anthropology Department at The Field Museum in Chicago. 
I assist Dr. William Parkinson with the organization, implementation, and management of grants that aim at developing archaeological research and museum enhancement in Bulgaria. Along with the work for ABF, I also perform general administrative tasks for the main office in the Anthropology Department.