Kiril-Avramov

Kiril Avramov

Assistant Professor | Department of Slavic & Eurasian Studies

Kiril Avramov is currently an Assistant Professor at the Center for Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies. His research interests include topics related to non-western political warfare, Soviet and Russian propaganda, Soviet and Russian influence and psychological operations, “weaponization of information”, cognitive hacking, elite and mass cognitive resilience, history of Soviet and East European civilian and military intelligence services.

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 “Political Capital” in Bulgaria. In 2010, he was appointed as the Director for International Relations of Political Capital at the firm’s 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 “Open Society Institute-Sofia” scholarship for his year-long PhD specialization at the Central European University in Budapest.