{"id":220,"date":"2022-11-16T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-16T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=220"},"modified":"2022-11-10T18:30:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-10T18:30:02","slug":"kiril-avramov","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/speaker\/kiril-avramov\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiril Avramov"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Previously he was the Acting Vice-Rector for International Relations and Research at the New Bulgarian University (NBU) in Sofia, Bulgaria and an Assistant Professor of Political Science at NBU. He studied previously at Gustavus Adolphus College (USA\/MN), the University of Aberdeen (Scotland), University of Sofia (Bulgaria), Central European University (Hungary), and NBU. He taught in the Department of Political Science at the University of Sofia until 2005 and, from 2006-2010, was also the Director of the international consultancy and research institute \u201cPolitical Capital\u201d in Bulgaria. In 2010, he was appointed as the Director for International Relations of Political Capital at the firm\u2019s headquarters in Budapest. Dr. Avramov was a Fulbright Senior Visiting Research Scholar at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) at the University of Texas at Austin in 2015-2016. He earned a full scholarship for his PhD research at the University of Sofia and received an \u201cOpen Society Institute-Sofia\u201d scholarship for his year-long PhD specialization at the Central European University in Budapest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":234,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-220","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies and a non-resident Fellow to the Intelligence Studies Project (ISP) at the University of Texas at Austin. ","speaker_last_name":"Avramov","speaker_classification":["Current Staff","Featured Guests"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/220\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/into-the-colaverse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}