Mary Neuburger

Professor, Department of History, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas at Austin

Mary Neuburger is a Professor in the Department of History and the Director of the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREEES) at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of three books on Bulgarian history: The Orient Within: Muslim Minorities and the Negotiation of Nationhood in Modern Bulgaria (Cornell, 2004). Balkan Smoke: Tobacco and the Making of Modern Bulgaria (Cornell, 2012), and Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Bulgaria (Cornell, 2022). Dr. Neuburger is also the co-editor with Paulina Bren of Communism Unwrapped: Consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe (Oxford, 2012) and has authored numerous articles on Bulgarian history. She is also the co-editor of the Journal of Contemporary History.