Francesco Trupia is a post-doctoral researcher at the University Centre for Excellence IMSErt “Interacting Minds, Environments and Societies” at the Nicolaus Copernicus University, Toruń – Poland. He holds a PhD in Philosophy from the Sofia University St. Kliment Ohridski, Bulgaria. His research interests range from identity and memory politics to issues of democratisation and borderisation in Southeast Europe and the Caucasus.