Anelia Kassabova

Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEFSEM - BAS)

Anelia Kassabova is an ethnologist and historian. She holds an MA in History and German Philology from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridsky” (1985), as well as two PhD degrees: a PhD in History from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (1995) and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna (2001).

Since 2010, she has been an Associate Professor at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies with Ethnographic Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (IEFSEM - BAS). Since 2020, she leads the scientific unit ‘Medical Anthropology’ at the IEFSEM - BAS.

Kassabova has participated in several international projects and has published extensively, including a monograph and edited volumes, in the fields of history of medicine, history of family and kinship, gender studies, reproductive policies, and visual anthropology.

Since 2020, she serves as Principal Investigator alongside Volker Hess (Charité Berlin), Judit Sandor (CEU Vienna/Budapest), and Ulf Schmidt (University of Hamburg) in the ERC Synergy project "Taming the European Leviathan: The Legacy of Post-War Medicine and the Common Good" (H2020, ERC-2019-SyG, GA ID: 854503, 2020–2026).