Milena Angelova is a lecturer at the Department of Anthropology of New Bulgarian University. Her research interests are in the field of historical-anthropological studies of memory policies in communist Bulgaria, the history of public health and social work, rural policies after World War I, ethno-confessional communities in the Caucasus region (Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan), etc. She is the author of the books 'Model Village'. The Modernization Project of the Bulgarian Village, 1937–1944, (2008), The (Un)Shared Memory of Late Socialism: The People's Memory Narrates Movement (2009), The Social Disease: Tuberculosis in Bulgaria in the First Half of the 20th Century (2021) and is co-author of Heroes, Places, Memories. Bulgarian Memory Cultures and Politics to the Russian-Ottoman War of 1877 – 1878 (2016).