Vesselin Popov

University of St Andrews, School of History
St Katharine’s Lodge, The Scores 14, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9AR, Scotland, United Kingdom
e-mail: vp43@st-andrews.ac.uk; studiiromani@geobiz.net

ORCID iD iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-6565-8730

Research Gate Vesselin Popov
https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/history/staff/vaslinpopova.html

keywords: 

Roma/Gypsies, religion, faith, folk beliefs, orthodoxy, Islam, syncretism, new
churches, evangelisation

Books

  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2016. Gypsies of Central Asia and Caucasus. London: Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Марушиакова, Елена и Веселин Попов. 2012. Цигани в Източна Европа. Курс лекции. София: Парадигма.
  • Марушиакова, Елена и Веселин Попов. 2007. Студии Романи. Том VII. Избрано. София: Парадигма.
  • Marushiakova, Elena, Udo Mischek, Vesselin Popov and Bernhard Streck. 2005. Dienstleistungsnomadismus am Schwarzen Meer. Zigeunergruppen zwischen Symbiose und Dissidenz. In Orientwissenschaftliche Hefte (16).
  • Марушиакова, Елена и Веселин Попов. 2000. Циганите в Османската империя. София: Литавра
  • 2th ed.: Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2001. Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire. Hatfield: University of Hertfordshire Press.
  • 3th ed.: Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2003. Romi u Turskom Carstvu. Subotica: Čikoš Holding. 
  • 4th ed.: Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2006. Osmanlı Imperatorluğu’nda Çingeneler. Istanbul: Homer.
  • 5th ed.: یلینا ماروشیاکوف٢٠٠٩ ا و فاسلین بو. تاریخ الغج. الغجر فی الدولة العثما نیة. وکالةسفنکس ،. [2009. Egypt.]
  • Марушиакова, Елена и Веселин Попов. 1993. Циганите в България. София: Клуб ‘90.
  • 2th ed.: Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 1997. Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.

Chapters

  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2015. The First Gypsy/Roma Organizations, Churches and Newspapers. In: Kominko, Maja, ed. From Dust to Digital: Ten Years of the Endangered Archives Programme. Cambridge UK: Open Book Publishers, 258-293.
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Veselin Popov. 2014. Gypsy Religious Revival Movement in Former Soviet Union. In: Thurfjell, David and Adrian Marsh, eds. Romani Pentecostalism: Gypsies and Charismatic Christianity. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 41-53.

Articles

  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2017. Commencement of Roma Civic Emancipation. Studies in Arts and Humanities 3 (2): 32-55. http://sahjournal.com/index.php/sah/article/view/102
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2017. In Search of a Social Contract: Roma in the 20th and 21st centuries. Anthropological Notebooks 23 (1): 9-25. http://www.drustvo-antropologov.si/AN/PDF/2017_1/Anthropological_Noteboo...
  • Popov, Vesselin. 2016. Roma Muslims on the Balkans in Ottoman Empire. In: Courthiade, Marcel and Delia Grigore, eds. 2016. Profesorul Gheorghe Sarău: O viață dedicată limbii rromani. Volum colectiv la aniversarea a 60 de ani de viață. // Professor Gheorghe Sarău: A Life Devoted to the Rromani Language. Collective Volume at his 60th Birthday. // O siklǎrno Gheorghe Sarău: jekh ӡivipen dino e rromane ćhibǎqe. Khethanutno Lil k-ol 60 berśa lesqe ӡivimasqe. București: Editura Universității din București, 425-434.
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2015. The Pierwsze organizacje Cyganów/Romów. Studia Romologica 8: 13-28.
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2011. Kult romskiej świętej Bibiji. Studia Romologica 4: 37-66.
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2011. ’Whom belong this Song?’ How to research Romani Culture on the Balkans. International Journal of Romani Language and Culture 1 (1): 54-65.
  • Марушиакова, Елена и Веселин Попов. 2007. Какава/Хъдърлез при циганите в Източна Тракия (Турция). In: Карамихова, Маргарита. (Съст.) Завръщане на религиозността. София: ЕИМ, 63-80.
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 2007. The vanished kurban. Modern dimensions of the celebration of Kakava/Hidrellez among the Gypsies in Eastern Thrace (Turkey). In: Sikimić, Bilijana and Petko Hristov, eds. Kurban on the Balkans. Belgrade: Institute of Balkan Studies, 33-50.
  • Marushiakova, Elena and Vesselin Popov. 1999. The Relations of Ethnic and Confessional Consciousness of Gypsies in Bulgaria. Facta Unversitatis (University of Niš), Series Philosophy and Sociology 2 (6): 81-90. http://facta.junis.ni.ac.rs/pas/pas99/pas99-09.pdf.
  • Попов, Веселин. 1996. Култът към Биби в балкански културно-исторически контекст. In: Попов, Рачко. (Съст.) Етнографски проблеми на народната духовна култура. Том IV. София: ЕИМ, 186-218.

Current Project

  • Roma Civic Emancipation between the Two World Wars (ERC Advanced Grant 2015)