Konstantin Boshnakov | Faculty & staff bios

Name	Konstantin Boshnakov
School	School of Interdisciplinary Studies
Program	Bachelor of Applied Technology (Honours) - Architecture - Project and Facility Management (APFM) Bachelor of Community and Criminal Justice (Honours)
Academic and professional designations	Ph.D., Ancient History Research Associate of the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies – University of Waterloo (WIHS) Fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (AvH) Fellow of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Member of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) Member of the Ernst Kirsten International Society of Ancient Historical Geography Member of the editorial board of the international scientific journal Society and Health
Title	Professor
Courses taught	CLSC72000 - Classical Civilization and the Global Present CLSC73030 - Classical Mythology LIBS1110 - World Religions LIBS1960 - Exploring the World of Classical Myth RELS73200 - Religions of the World: Western Traditions RSCH7300 - Understanding Research
Areas of expertise & interest	Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean World and the Near East Cognitive History Historical Geography Historical Research Theoretical and Field Archaeology
Industry experience, professional currency activities	Sixteen years of teaching experience in Canadian higher education at Conestoga College (full-time), George Brown College and Sheridan College (partial oad), Brock University, Toronto Metropolitan (formerly Ryerson) University, and University of Toronto (Mississauga) (lecturer). Vast teaching and research experience in European higher education at Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, South-West University of Blagoevgrad, Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg, Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg, Free University of Berlin, and Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt. International training in a team environment and many years of experience in field and theoretical archaeology
Major research projects, scholarly activities, and/or publications	Research project: Above the 40^th Parallel North: Studies on Ancient Cartography and Historical Geography. Most recent conference presentations: New Observations on the Dura Peruplus-Map (113^th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Kitchener, 2017). Hecataeus of Miletus: Reconsidering the Foundations of Ancient Greek Historiography (The Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Toronto 2015). New observations on the 3^rd century Dura Periplus-Map (International Workshop, École Normale Supérieure, Paris 2015). Contextualizing Recently Discovered Tomb Inscriptions in Hellenistic Thrace (3^rd century B.C.E.) (The Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, Montreal 2014). Selected publications: Books (2007/2003). Rulers of Ancient Europe (in Greek/English/Bulgarian). Athens/Sofia: Kibela/Fytraki. (2004). Pseudo-Skymnos (Semos von Delos) (in German). Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag. Articles (2022). Rethinking the Danube-Tributary Account in Herodotus 4.48–51 (Current Progress). In S. Sørensen (Ed.), Sine fine. Studies in honour of Klaus Geus on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday (pp. 153-211). Franz Steiner Verlag. (2020). Roller, D. (2018). Historical and Topographical Guide to the Geography of Strabo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (book review). Orbis Terrarum 18, 306–310. (2016). Podossinov, A. ed. (2014). The Periphery of the Classical World in Ancient Geography and Cartography (Colloquia antiqua. Supplements to the Journal Ancient West & East 12). Leuven, Paris, Walpole, MA: Peeters (book review). Orbis Terrarum 13, 289–292. (2015). New observations on the Dura Periplus-Map and the Pseudo-Arrian’s Periplus of the Black Sea. In H.-J. Gehrke, A. Dan, & A. Podossinov (Eds.), International Workshop: "Black Sea (5th-7th century AD): The Religious, Military, and Economic Middle Ground and Its Representations" (pp. 373-398). École Normale Supérieure, Paris. (2013). The “Sacred Counsel”: On Some Features of the Periegesis, Periodos, and Their Originators. In K. Geus & M. Rathmann (Eds.), Mapping the Oikumene (pp. 25-64). De Gruyter.
Additional information	Konstantin is a historian with a broad academic background in Humanities, Social Sciences, and Interdisciplinary Studies and has diverse teaching experience at colleges and universities in Canada and abroad. He defines himself as a teacher at heart, an avid proponent of engaging students in a media-rich learning environment and providing them with research approaches and thinking skills that will last a lifetime. Over his career, he gained practical skills in the authentic lands of ancient civilizations at museums, archives, manuscript departments, and international archaeological and ethnographic expeditions.