Mariya Stoilova

Mariya Stoilova joined the Birkbeck Institute for Social Research in June 2007 as a Research Fellow. She is part of our research team working on a EU integrated project ‘Intimate Citizenship in Multi-Cultural Europe: the impact of contemporary women’s movements’ (FEMCIT, www.femcit.org). As part of FEMCIT Mariya is working on transformations in intimate citizenship in Bulgaria.

Mariya’s research interests fall into the areas of changing cultural discourses and policy contexts about intimate life and citizenship in Bulgaria; socialist and post-socialist gender regimes; feminism in South Eastern Europe and women’s agency; biographical narrative research methods.

Mariya has completed a PhD on ‘Gender and Generation: Women’s Experiences of the Transition from Socialism in Bulgaria’ in the School of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Leeds (2004-2008). Mariya Stoilova holds a First Class MA degree in Public Relations from Sofia University ‘St. Kliment Ohridski’. She was awarded The Overseas Research Students Award Scheme (ORSAS) Award (Universities UK, United Kingdom in 2006/2007 and 2005/2006), as well as the Global Supplementary Grant Program Award (Network Scholarship Programs of Open Society Institute, in 2006/007 and 2005/2006).

PUBLICATIONS

Book Chapters and Refereed Articles

Stoilova, M. (forthcoming) Intimate Citizenship and the Procreative Norm”, Citizenship Studies, Special Issue “Citizenship and Reproduction/ Reproducing Citizens” (with S. Roseneil, I. Crowhurst, T. Hellesund and A.C.Santos)

Stoilova, M (forthcoming) “Remaking Intimate Citizenship in Multicultural Europe”. In Remaking Citizenship in Multicultural Europe: women’s movements, gender and diversity”, London: Palgrave Macmillan (with S. Roseneil, I. Crowhurst, T. Hellesund and A.C.Santos)

Stoilova, M. (2010) “Post-Socialist Gender Transformations and Women’s Experiences of Employment– Movements between Continuity and Change in Bulgaria”. Journal of Organizational Change Management. Special Issue “Movements of Transition; Imaginary Institutions, Alternatives, Resistances” (in press)

Stoilova, M. (2010) “Heteronormativity, Intimate Citizenship and the Regulation of Same-Sex Sexualities in Bulgaria”. In Kulpa and Mizielinska (eds.) De-Centring Western Sexualities: Central and Eastern European Perspectives. London: Ashgate (with Sasha Roseneil) (in press)

Stoilova, M (2010) “Intimate Citizenship and Gendered Well-Being: the claims and interventions of women’s movements in Europe” in A. Woodward et al (eds) Social Movements: Gendering Well-Being. Ashgate Press (with S. Roseneil, I. Crowhurst, T. Hellesund and A. C. Santos) (in press)

Stoilova, M (2007) Gender, Generations and Post-Socialism: Bulgarian Women’s Individual Experiences as Historical Experiences in Kolarova, K. and Sokolova, V. (eds.) Gender and Generation. Interdisciplinary Perspectives and Intersections, Prague: Litteraria Pragensia

Working Papers and Electronic Publications

Stoilova, M. (2009) Changing Cultural Discourses about Intimate Life: the Demands and Actions of Women’s Movements and Other Movements for Gender and Sexual Equality and Change in Bulgaria. In Roseneil, S. (ed.) Changing Cultural Discourses about Intimate Life: the demands and actions of women’s movements and other movements for gender and sexual equality and change, pp.398. 2009. FEMCIT WP6 Working Paper 2, http://www.femcit.org

Stoilova, M. (2008) Policy Contexts and Responses to Changes in Intimate Life in Bulgaria in Roseneil, S. (ed.) Policy Contexts and Responses to Changes in Intimate Life, pp.396, 2008. FEMCIT WP 6 Working Paper 1, http://www.femcit.org

Stoilova, M (2007) Gender Regimes During and After Socialism: Bulgarian women's experiences of employment, Thinking Gender – the NEXT Generation (E-papers), Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds (Leeds, UK) [online], http://www.gender-studies.leeds.ac.uk

Stoilova, M (2007) “Gender Negotiation and New Family Practices in Bulgaria”. Women’s Studies and Policy Research Centre (“Център за изследвания и политики за жените“), [online], www.cwsp.bg

SELECTED CONFERENCE PAPERS

Stoilova, M. (2010) Intimate Citizenship Regimes in Multicultural Europe: the tenacity of the couple norm in Bulgaria. Sub-plenary Paper presented at the British Sociological Association conference, Glasgow Caledonian University, April 2010.

Stoilova, M (2009) Intimate Citizenship in Bulgaria: the claims, demands and practices of the women’s movement, First European Conference on Politics and Gender, Queen’s University Belfast, January 2009

Stoilova, M. (2009) Gender and Generation: Bulgarian Women’s Experiences of the Transformation from Socialism in Bulgaria, Annual Conference of the British Association for Slavonic and Eastern European Studies, University of Cambridge, March 2009

Stoilova, M. (2009) Changing Landscapes of Heteronormativity, Annual Conference of the European Sociological Association, Lisbon, September 2009

Stoilova, M (2007) Gains and Losses: Women's Changing Experiences of Employment in Post-Socialist Bulgaria, British Sociological Association, Annual Conference, April 2007, London

Stoilova, M (2006) Gender Dimensions of Inequality during the Transformation to Democracy in Post-Socialist Bulgaria, Open Society Conference on “Challenges for Democracy in Eastern Europe and Central Asia:  Prospects and Achievements”, University of Cambridge, October 2006

Stoilova, M (2006) Gender Regimes during and after Socialism: Bulgarian women’s experiences of employment, ‘Thinking Gender: the Next Generation’, Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies, University of Leeds, June 2006

Stoilova, M (2006) Women’s Experiences of the Post-Socialist Transformation in Bulgaria, School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, April 2006

Teaching Accreditation and Experience
Completed M-level Modules in Learning and Teaching for Higher Education (NDLTHE) for Research Staff and Postgraduates, Staff and Departmental Development Unit, University of Leeds, 2005/2006
Teaching: Researching Personal Life and Social Change; Identity, Inequality and Difference;  Sociological Thinking; Sociological Analysis of Contemporary Society (Undergraduate Modules, University of Leeds, 2004/2005 and 2006/2007)

Contact Details

Dr Mariya Stoilova
Research Fellow
Birkbeck Institute for Social Research
Birkbeck, University of London
Malet Street
LondonWC1E 7HX
Tel: 020 3073 8317
E-mail: m.stoilova@bbk.ac.uk