| ● Personal information Born in Bulgaria (1959). A resident of the USA since 2001 (Green Card for scientific contributions). My father's picture is at Ask Art auction: Peter Nikolov. My brother Daniel is my favorite artist. CURRENT AFFILIATIONS ● International Institute of Anthropology, Founder, Research Professor and Research Director (since 2001) ● Past positions CURRENT PROJECTS Archaeology and Anthropology ● Archaeological artifacts as sustainable materials ● Archaeology of wealth ● Prehistory and enculturation ● Chronology of Balkan prehistory in Eurasian context ● Pit Grave Culture ● Art and prehistory MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS ● Society for Anthropological Sciences (2009-2010) ●American Anthropological Association (2009-2010) ●Human behavioural & evolutionary society (2009) ● Social Psychology Network (2009) ● Society for Personal and Social Psychology (2009). ● Coroplastic Studies Interest Group, Chair: Professor Jaimee Uhlenbrock. (2009) ● Modern Language Association. (2009) ● National Association of Professional Women (since 18 Dec 2008, upon invitation). (2008-2009) ● European Association of Archaeologists. (2002-2009) ● World Archaeological Congress (2002-2005; 2008-2009) ● Federation of the East European Family History Societies (FEEFHS), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA. Member (2002-2005). ● American Institute of Archaeology. (2001; 2003) ● Society for American Archaeology. (1998; 2005) ● Prehistory Foundation, Sofia, Bulgaria. President (this organization merged with International Institute of Anthropology) (1995-2006) ● American Bibliographical Institute, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA. Member of the Professional Women's Advisory Board (2002-2005) EDUCATION ● Forensic Psychology. Three semesters at Argosy University, Draper, Salt Lake City, Utah. (April 2009 - December 2009). ● Penn Foster Career School. Teacher Aide: Introduction to Teacher Aide; Learning Strategies; Child Development and Human Behavior; Skills for the Effective Teacher Aide (2006) ● National Archaeological Institute and Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria. Post-graduate student. Ph.D. Degree. Dissertation: Problems of Cultural Interrelations between Southeast and Central Europe during the Early Bronze Age. Supervisor: Dr Rumen Katincharov. (1986-1991) ● University of Sofia St Kliment Okhridski. Master in History with specialization in Archaeology and second Major Philosophy. Master paper: The burial wreath in the East Mediterranean. Supervisor: Professor HabDr Lyudmil Getov. (1979-1984). TEACHING ● GE250 Section A. Anthropology. & GE132 section A. History of popular culture. Art Institute of Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, Utah. 4 credit classes. (April 2009 - December 2009). Dean - Allan Murdock ● Anth 1010 Culture and Human experience. Salt Lake Community College. Chair - Dr John Fritz. Fall 2004; Spring 2005; Summer 2005 ● Anth 1030 Introduction to Archaeology. Salt Lake Community College. Chair - Dr John Fritz. Spring 2005 ● English. High school teacher. High School Hristo Prodanov, Karlovo, Bulgaria. Spring 2000. Ca. 30 hours. ● English. Private teacher. Karlovo, Bulgaria. Summer 1999-Winter 2000. A total of ca. 2040 hours. Individual and in group lessons. ● Seminar on Central Balkan Early Bronze Age. University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany. Host Professor - Professor Joseph Maran. Winter 1998-1999. ● European Archaeology. International University, Karlovo, Bulgaria (1998-1999) Winter 1999-2000. MUSEUM EMPLOYMENT AND RESEARCH AFFILIATION Archaeology and anthropology ● Department of Anthropology. University of Utah. Adjunct Assistant Professor. Chair - Professor James F. O'Connell (2002-2007), Professor Elizabeth Cashdan (2008-2009). ● Research Associate. University of California. Department of Anthropology. Chair - Professor Margaret Conkey. Host Professor - Ruth Tringham. (1997-1998) ● Museum of History. Karlovo, Bulgaria. Director - Penka Todorova. Curator-archaeologist. Excavations at Dubene-Sarovka. (1993-1998) Genealogy ● Universal Genealogy Center, Salt Lake City. Contract-genealogist. Eastern European Genealogy. Research in depth in Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah and field trips. (2001-present). ● Price and Associates, Salt Lake City, (2001-present) SUMMARY OF SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES ● Two monographs, about 30 scientific articles, editor of 5 monographs. Editor and publisher of the Reports of Prehistoric Research Project (since 1995). (1992-2009) ● Member of the editorial board of Stratum ● Member of the Advisory Board of the Scientific Journals International (2005-present) ● Participation in about 25 International Symposia on Prehistory in Europe (1989-2007). ● Scientific organizer of International Symposia (Karlovo 1995, Karlovo 1999, Karlovo 2001, Karlovo 2002, Karlovo 2006). ● Scientific director of archaeological excavations (Dubene-Sarovka, 1995-1997, 1999-2000). ● Scientific director of archaeological field practice of undergraduate students. Dubene-Sarovka (1996-1997, 1999-2000). ● Lectures on Balkan Prehistory in the University of Zurich, Switzerland; University of Heidelberg and Free University, Berlin, Germany; University of California, Berkeley, California; Veliko Turnovo University, Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria; Tubingen University, Tubingen (Germany); High Anthropological School (Chisinau, Moldova); Salt Lake Community College, Salt Lake City, Utah, etc. (1992-2007) ● Participation in the Neolithic Seminar of Assoc. Prof. Mihael Budja in Ljubljana University, Ljubljana, Slovenia. (1993; 2006) PARTICIPATION IN RECENT AND COMING SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES ● 57th Annual Utah State History Conference. Salt Lake City, Utah. 17-18 September 2009. Report: Anthropology of Salt Lake City: Present and past in our everydayness. (The Program of the Conference) ● Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. EAA -15. September 17, 2009. Recycling and Secondary Use: Towards the Functional Analysis of the Archaeological Artifacts and Features (power point, .pdf ppt, text .pdf) ● Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. EAA -15. September 18, 2009. Community archaeology, academism and humanity (Internal link). ●Riva del Garda, Trento, Italy. The 15th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Co-organizer of a session - round table "Building museums as protagonists of Virtual reality exhibitions", and Presentation "Internet, archaeology and virtual museums". 15-20 September 2009. (.pdf) ● Serbian Archaeological Society. 32nd Annual Meeting. Symposium "Archaeology of Banat". Abstract of a presentation delivered by the hosts. 5-7 June 2009. (.pdf) (Abstract). ● Marriage and Family Therapy. Conference, Park City. Utah. Attendance. 16 May 2009. ● TAG Stanford. Value in Prehistory (With Reference to the Balkans). Attendance, participation in discussions and an abstract for the session "Archaeologies of the transient and intangible: what gets valued and why?" (cancelled). 1-3 May 2009. ● Round Table: Household Archaeology in the Middle East and Beyond: Theory, Method and Practice. Participation. 21 February 2009. ● 85th Birth Anniversary of Eugen Comsa. Scholar Conference in Bucharest, Romania, organized by the Archaeological Institute in Bucharest. Slide-presentation of the book in print "Circumpontica: Western Pontic Studies" (BAR International Series) (presented by Barbara Voytek in Bucharest). 7-11 October 2008. ● 14th Annual Meeting of European Association of Archaeologists, Malta, 16th-21st September 2008 (Abstracts). Co-organizer of two sessions. 16-21 September 2008. ● 6th World Archaeological Congress, 29th June - 4th July 2008. 29 June - 4 July 2008. ● International Conference: "The Danube script: Neo-Eneolithic writing in Southeastern Europe," Museum of History, CASA Altemberger, Brukenthal National Museum, Sibiu, Romania May 18-20, 2008. Presentation: Balkan Neolithic and Early Copper Networks of Communication (Abstract). 18-20 May 2008. ● 13th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Zadar, Croatia. Presentations. September 2007. ● 12th Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists. Cracow, Poland. Presentations. September 2006. ● 71th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. Puerto Rico. An organizer of a session. 26-30 April 2006. GRANTS AND SPONSORING EVENTS Archaeology ● World Archaeological Congress. Co-grant to attend the 6th WAC in Dublin, Ireland (free lodging and waving of the participation fee). (2008) ● Fine Arts and Lectures. Salt Lake Community College. Salt Lake City, Utah. A joined project with the Club of Anthropology, SLCC. A grant for lectures of two Bulgarian scholars on April 4, 2005 at Salt Lake Community College. (2004). Guests - DrHab Vassil Nikolov and Dr Krum Bacvarov. ● European Science Foundation, Strasbourg, France (2002). A common project with Dr. Elmar Christmann (University of Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany) for organizing the Conference “Early Symbolic systems for Communication” in Karlovo (Bulgaria), 15-20 April 2002 ● German Academy of Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany (1997-1998). Six months grant for teaching and research on Balkan Prehistory. Host professor: Professor Joseph Maran, Ph.D. (1997-1998) ● UNESCO Grant for Culture, Zurich, Switzerland. One month grant for visiting of museums in Switzerland. Host-museum - Museum fur Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen1992 ●Institute of Southeast Europe, Zurich, Switzerland. Three months grant for research on Balkan Prehistory. Host professor: Prof. Margarita Primas, Ph.D. Lecture: Pit Grave Culture in Bulgaria. (1993) Genealogy field research trips ● Serbia, Ireland, Montenegro, Italy, Slovenia (2008) ● Italy, Slovenia, Serbia and Croatia (2007) ● Italy, Germany, Poland, Croatia and Bulgaria (2006) ● Poland, Bulgaria and Romania (2005) ● Czech Republic and Germany (2004) ● Croatia, Slovenia and Moldova (2003) ● Croatia and Serbia (2002) PUBLISHING ● Reports of Prehistoric Research Projects. (1995-present). Periodical of Prehistory Foundation and International Institute of Anthropology. Editor-in-chief. Responsible for collecting, editing and publishing of the issues. ● Scientific Journals International. Member of the Advisory Board. SELECTED PUBLICATIONS, WEBSITES and PRESENTATIONS ●1992-2003 Articles ● Art and Prehistory (Visiting the Gaydarska and Chapman’s Answers to Why were Prehistoric Persons Interested in Rocks, Minerals, Clays and Pigments?). Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis 8, 2009, 1-14 (.pdf) ● Balkan-Anatolian Cultural Horizons from the Fourth Millennium BC and Their Relations to the Baden Cultural Complex. In: Furholt, M., Szmyt, M. and Zastawny, A. (Eds.), The Baden Complex and the Outside World, 157-166. Bonn: Dr. Rudolph Habelt GmbH. (.pdf) (2008) ● Toward the development of the Balkan cultural-chronological scheme of the Neolithic and Copper Age. In: Gergova, D. (ed.-in-chief), Phosphorion. Studia in honorem Mariae Čičikova, pp. 48-65, in Bulgarian with English Abstract). Sofia: Prof. Marin Drinov Academic Publishing House. (2008) ● Toward Evolutionary Model of Gradual Development of Social Complexity among the Neolithic Pottery Communities in the Balkans (Cultural- Chronological and Cultural-Anthropological Problems). In: Spataro, M. and Biagi, P. (eds), "A Short Walk through the Balkans". Società per la preistoria e protostoria della regione Fruili-Venezia Guilia. Quaderno 12 (2007) (.pdf) ● Village-interments and social reproduction during the Neolithic. In: Gatsov I. & Schwarzberg H. (eds.), Aegean – Marmara – Black Sea, 95-114. (2006) ● Notes on Theoretical Anthropology and Genealogy as Fields of Anthropology. In: Nikolova L. et al. (eds.) Prehistoric Archaeology, 107-109. (2005) ● Social Changes and Cultural Interactions in Later Balkan Prehistory. Later Fifth and Fourth Millennia cal BCE. In Nikolova L. et al, eds., Prehistoric Archaeology & Anthropological Theory and Education. International Institute of Anthropology, 87-96. Salt Lake City & Karlovo. Reports of Prehistoric Research Projects 6-7. (link to a .pdf file). (2005) ● Notes on the Study of Early Social Reproduction in Thrace (Based on data from Neolithic mortuary practices). In: Nikolov V., Bacvarov K. & Kalchev P. (eds.) Prehistoric Thrace, 161-171. (2004) Abstracts ● Value in prehistory (with reference to the Balkans) [Abstract]. In: Theoretical Archaeological Group. 1st - 3rd May 2009. Stanford Archaeological Center. Stanford University. Information and abstracts. Stanford, p. 57 (external link to the online version) Articles at journey.bg (2009) Websites and web-publications ● Balkan Prehistoric Periodization-chronological Schemes. International Institute of Anthropology Web Publications. URL: http: //www.iianthropology.org/balkanprehischronscheme.html (2007) ● Dubene and Troy in light of new discoveries. At: http://www.iianthropology.org/DubeneTroy (2005) ● Dubene and Early Bronze Age in the Balkans in light of new discoveries. International Institute of Anthropology Web Publications. URL: http://www.iianthropology.org/dubeneebabalkans (2005) ● From Dubene to Troy, Ur and Harappa. Poster-exhibit with participation of students ANTH 1030, College of Art and Socila sciences, SLCC, Salt Lake, Utah. Sept 1-23, 2005. ● Dubene - Apsis House No. 1. URL: http://www.iianthropology/org/dubeneapsishouse. (2005) ● Banya – Ploskata mogila and Vaksevo. International Institute of Anthropology Web Publications. URL: http://www.iianthropology. org/banyavaksevo (2005) ● Approach to Anthropology of Everydayness. Symbols in the Prehistoric Enculturation Preocess. (.pdf) In: Nikolova L. et al., eds, Prehistoric Archaeology & Anthropological Theory and Education. International Institute of Anthropology, 103-106. Salt Lake City & Karlovo. Reports of Prehistoric Research Projects 6-7. (2005) ● The Everyday Life and the Symbolism in the Prehistoric Balkans. In: Criteria of Symbolicity. URL: http://www.semioticon. com/virtuals/symbolicity/everyday (2004) Editor and co-editor ● (with John Fritz and Judith Higgins) (eds.) 2005 Prehistoric Archaeology & Anthropological Theory and Education. International Institute of Anthropology. Salt Lake City & Karlovo. Reports of Prehistoric Research Projects 6-7. (2005) |
| Lolita Petrova Nikolova, PhD Archaeologist, cultural anthropologist and genealogist The author of "The Balkans in Later Prehistory" (1999), International Institute of Anthropology lnikol@iianthropology.org Books by Lolita Nikolova at WorldCat Tel. (801) 702 6033 |