Professor Elena Marushiakova (School of History, University of St. Andrews) works in the field of Romani studies for more than three decades. Her major publications (in co-authorship with Vesselin Popov) include the first-ever monograph on Roma in Bulgaria (1997), on Gypsies in the Ottoman Empire (2000), in the Black Sea region (2008), and a book on Gypsies in Central Asia and Caucasus (2016). She is principal investigator in the research project “Roma Civic Emancipation Between the Two World Wars” (ERC Advanced Grant 2015, Nr. 694656). Elena is President of the Gypsy Lore Society, the world’s oldest organization of Roma studies.