Diana Mishkova is Professor of History and Academic Director of the Centre for Advanced Study in Sofia. She is the author of Beyond Balkanism: The Scholarly Politics of Region Making (2018) and Domestication of Freedom. Modernity and Legitimacy in Serbia and Romania in the Nineteenth Century (2001), and editor of many collective volumes, including European Regions and Boundaries. A Conceptual History (2017), Entangled Histories of the Balkans, vols 2 and 4 (2014, 2017) and We, the People. Politics of National Peculiarity in Southeastern Europe (2009).