Curator in the Ethnography Department at Varna Regional Museum of History
svetkol@dbv.bg

Field of Scientific Interests:
Sacred places, sacred objects, cult practices; migration movements (demographic processes in the Varna region); spiritual culture of the Gagauz; material culture: jewelry, urban life.

Education and Qualifications:
2021 Defense of doctoral dissertation. Topic: “The Cult of Healing Springs in the Varna Region from the Late 19th to the Early 21st Century (an ethnological perspective)”;
2017 – 2021 Part-time PhD student – St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo, professional field: sociology, anthropology, and cultural studies, specialty in ethnology
1979 – 1983 Master’s in History, Faculty of History at St. Cyril and St. Methodius University of Veliko Tarnovo

Professional Experience:
1989- Varna Regional Museum of History – Curator in the Ethnography Department
1983 – 1989 History teacher

Ethnographic expeditions and field studies in the city of Varna and the settlements in the
Varna region

Organization of Exhibitions:
2021 “Varna – Queen of the Black Sea” – traveling exhibition
2019 “Donors and Donations” – temporary exhibition for the 45th anniversary of the Varna Ethnographic Museum
2019 “Bread and Wine – from Antiquity to the Present”
2018 “Welcome White and Red Easter”
2018 “In the World of Photography – at Home”
2016 Included in the Register of Experts under Art. 96, para. 4 of the Cultural Heritage Act – field “Collections of Ethnographic Interest”

Published 49 articles in the field of ethnology in scientific compilations.