• Cultural and Linguistic Anthropology
• Philosophy of culture, storytelling
• Revitalization of minority languages
• Documentation, digitization and preservation of endangered languages and cultural heritage

Conducted academic seminars

2018 - 2019

• Seminary: "Beyond Trends: Preservation and Revitalization of Language, Music and Material Culture among Southern Slavic" Cultures [orig. Außerhalb der Trends: Erhalt und Revitalisierung von Sprache, Musik und materieller Kultur bei den Südslawen], (together with Thede Kahl), Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena

2017 - 2018

• Seminary: "Linguistic and Religious Vitality of Minorities in Southeastern Europe" [orig. Sprachliche und religiöse Vitalität von Minderheiten in Südosteuropa], (together with Evelyn Reuter), Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena

09/2017

• Lecturer in the working group "Oral Traditions of the South Slavs in Music and Literature" [orig. Orale Traditionen der Südslawen in Musik und Literatur] within the Expeditionsakademie Sarajevo, 2017 (Studienstiftung)

2014 - 2015

• Tutorial: "Introduction to South Slavic Literatures", Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena

Conducted student linguistic fieldwork

• Linguistic fieldwork in Croatia with recordings among the Istroromanian speakers of Žejane and Šušnjevica, (6 participants from the Institute for Slavic and Caucasus Studies of Jena), June 7-12, 2018.
• Linguistic fieldwork on language contact in the border area of Serbia and Romania: Meeting Slavia/Romania along the the Iron Gates, (15 participants from the Institute for Slavic and Caucasus Studies of Jena), June 1-8, 2017.

Attended workshops

• "Language Contact in the Field", a workhsop of  the Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage Commission, Lecce, Italy, June 2018.

Since 2017

• PhD Project: Between Linguistic, Denominational, and National Assignment: Cultural Self-Assertion and Identity Construction among Christian and Muslim Pontians.

2012 - 2016

MA in Southeastern European Studies with a focus on Slavic and romance cultures and languages, at the Friedrich Schiller University of Jena, Institute of Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies.

• Master thesis: Linguistic and Cultural Identity in a Multiethnic Region: The Banat Bulgarians

2008 - 2012

BA in Cultural Anthropology, European Ethnology and Catholic Theology at the Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg.

• Bachelor Thesis: The image of the Hungarian minority in the Romanian press

Invited lectures

• Challenges in the preservation of heritage languages: Pontic Greek in Northern Greece. A case study, International Scientific Congress for Pontic Greek Ποντι-α-κή: Όψεις του σήμερα, προοπτικές του αύριο. Σκιαγραφώντας δρόμους και διαδρομές [The Pontic Greek Language: Aspects of present, prospects of future. Marking roads and routes], Florina, Greece, October 2022
• Lenguas en Extinción y Herencia Cultural. Escuchando su historia: Lingüística cultural y el enfoque holístico hacia las lenguas minoritarias de Turquía [Endangerede languages and cultural heritage: listening to their history: Cultural linguistics and the holistic approach to the minority languages of Turkey], 2ndo Coloquio de Lingüística en Bolivia, organized by LSSB, Cochabamba, Bolivia, July 2021 (online event)
• Linguistic field methods: background, insights and examples, International Virtual Student Colloquium Perspectives on Romania and Moldova, Institute for Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena, Germany, February 2021
• Documenting an endangered Greek variety: a profile of  Romeyka (Pontic Greek of Turkey), Annual Meeting of the Commission for Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Vienna, October 2019
• Rumänische Dialekte außerhalb Rumäniens: Aktuelle Feldforschungen zu Verbreitung, Zustand und Bedeutung, Institute for Romance Studies, Regensburg, Germany, January 2017 (with Th. Kahl)

Conference presentations

• Legitimating authentic Pontic Greek: performative competences of young speakers and intergenerational language transmission. XIX International Conference on Minority Languages (ICML), Wales Trinity Saint David University, Carmarthen, Wales, June 2023
• "Oh, oh, my Isuf, oh!" Performance and Meaning of Women's Laments from the Pontic Alps. Recordings in Pontic Greek of Karaçam Yaylası. 7th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Mus­­ic and Dance in Southeastern Europe (online event) April, 2021
• Singing rumca and dancing horon on the mountains of Karadeniz. Language preservation through music among the Romeyka speakers of Trebizond and Tonya, 12th Congress of South-East European Studies, Bucharest, Romania, September 2019
• "Rumca tragodía exéris?" Die musikalische Renaissance des Pontos-Griechischen (Romeyka): Sprache, Stil und Folklore in der neuen Musik an der türkischen Schwarzmeerküste, Symposium "Von der Wiederholung zum Ritual. Prezente Prozesse in den Sprachen und Kulturen südosteuropäischer Gesellschaften", Berlin, Germany, November 2018
• Revival and Fall in Adapting Folklore and Poetics: Revitalization and Cultural Turn of the Banat Bulgarian Language, Conference "Perspectives on linguistic diversity", panel: Linguistic endangerment in Southeast Europe, Rijeka, Croatia, June 2018
• Multipart Aromanian singing and the sudden rise from rural to urban folklore, 6th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe, Sinj, Croatia, April 2018
• On the Meaning of Language Codification: Multilingualism and Multispelling among Farsherots, Pomaks, and Pontians [orig. Vom Sinn der Sprachkodifizierung: Mehrsprachigkeit und Mehrschriftigkeit bei Farscheroten, Pomaken und Pontiern], Colloquium "Preservation of European Linguistic Diversity: Threatened linguistic varieties and minority languages in Italy and the Balkans. sustainability and language policy", Como (Villa Vigoni), Italy, March 2018
• Οι ελληνόφωνοι Θρακιώτες της Δοβρουτσάς. Η περίπτωση του χωριού Ιζβοάρελε (Ρουμανία) [The Greek speaking Thracians in Dobrudja. The case of the village Izvoarele (Romania)], Conference  "Η ιστορική Θράκη υπό το πρίσμα των εθνο-γλωσσολογικών μελετών", Komotini, Greece, October 2017 (with Th. Kahl)
• Searching for Nasreddin. Storytelling in Farsherot Aromanian (rramaneshti). Conference "Intangible Cultural Heritage. Field Studies from Southeast Europe", Jena, Germany, June 2017
• Codifying Pomak: Political, cultural and scientific arguments and tendencies. Conference "Οι πομάκοι της Θράκης : πολυεπιστημονικές και διεπιστημονικές προσεγγίσεις" [The Pomaks of Thrace: A Multidisciplinary and Interdisciplinary Approach], Komotini, Greece, March 18, 2017
• Ethnolinguistische Feldforschung bei den Banater Bulgaren: Identitätsmuster und Kulturbewahrung einer schwindenden Minderheit. Symposium "Bulgarische Sprache, Kultur und Literatur in Europa", Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany, June 7, 2015

Workshops facilitated

• Documenting an endangered language in Turkey: an ethnolinguistic profile of Pontic Greek speakers of Karadeniz, within the Workshop Documenting Vanishing Languages, Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH) Commission, Austrian Academy of Sciences, October 2019, Vienna, Austria
• Assessing vitality of minority languages: Ethnolinguistic and anthropological fieldwork in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus, Kutaisi University, September 2018, Kutaisi, Georgia
• Multiethnische Slavia/Romania: Sehen, Hören und Aufnehmen in Südosteuropa. Tag der Jenaer Slawistik, Institute for Slavic Studies and Caucasian Studies, June 2018, Jena, Germany
• An Introduction to Daco-Romanian­. Framing the History of the Language and its Dialects, Romanian Cultural Days, Friedrich-Schiller University, February 2018, Jena, Germany

Journals

Articles

Translated books

Unpublished works

Online publications

• 2021 Characteristics of the Pontic Greek variety (together with Thede Kahl and Sotirios Rousiakis). Under: VLACH Collections, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/greek-varieties/pontic-greek
• 2021 Characteristics of the Meglen Vlach language (together with Thede Kahl). Under: VLACH Collections, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/meglen-vlach.
• 2019 Characteristics of the Banat Bulgarian language (together with Thede Kahl). Under: VLACH Collections, https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/bulgarian-varieties/banat-bulgarian.
• Since 2019: ongoing scientific transcriptions of the Meglen Vlach language. See PDFs under: https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/meglen-vlach/
• Since 2019: ongoing scientific transcriptions of the Banat Bulgarian language. See PDFs under https://www.oeaw.ac.at/vlach/collections/bulgarian-varieties/banat-bulgarian/
• Since 2019: ongoing scientific transcription of the Timok Vlach variety. See PDFs under https://www.oeaw.ac.at/de/vlach/collections/romanian-varieties/timok-romanian/vlach/

Conferences

• Intangible Cultural Heritage. Field Studies from Southeast Europe, Friedrich-Schiller-University, international conference of the Institute for Slavic Studies and Caucasus Studies, Jena, June 29-30, 2017 (together with Thede Kahl).

Symposiums

• “Ethnic markets” in the modern urban space. From ethnic diversity to ethno-business, the 7th edition of the International Symposium of Urban Anthropology, Bucharest, October 21-22, 2022 (together with Thede Kahl).

Workshops organized

•  Documenting Vanishing Languages, VLACH Training Workshop, September 30-October 5, 2019 (together with Thede Kahl and Ioana Aminian).
• Archiving Linguistic and Ethnographic Fieldwork Data, a workshop within the Project "LAZAR", May, 2016 (together with Elguja Dadunashvili).

I am a linguistic anthropologist based at the Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage Commission in Vienna, Austria. Since 2014 I have conducted ethnographic and linguistic fieldwork among the Bulgarian speaking communities of Romania and the speakers of Bulgarian varieties in Western Thrace (Greece) as well as among speakers of Romance varieties such at the Timok Romanian (SRB, AU), the Aromanian (GR and ALB) and the Meglen Vlach (GR, TR, MK and RO).

Since 2016 I am doing intense research among the Pontic Greek speakers living in Greece, Turkey and the Caucasus (Georgia) while also working on the documentation of several other Greek varieties in Europe and Minor Asia.

All field research data (Video, Audio and Photo) is being annotated and documented within the VLACH Commission and long term stored at LaZAR.