Members of the Balkan Ethnology Department are: Assoc. Prof. Elena Marushiakova, PhD (Head of Department); Prof. Dr.Sc. Rachko Popov; Assoc. Prof. Vesselin Popov, PhD; Assoc. Prof. Margarita Karamihova, PhD; Mila Maeva, PhD; Magdalena Slavkova, PhD; Yelis Erolova, PhD; Svetlana Antova, PhD.

PhD Students: Sofia Zahova, Tanya Dimitrova, Lilyana Kovacheva, Velcho Krastev, Lili Uzlova.

Associated external members of the Balkan Ethnology Department are: Assoc. Prof. Mirella Decheva, PhD (Manager of Ethno-cultural Heritage Fund at National Ethnographic Museum), Assoc. Prof. Evgenia Ivanova, PhD (Regional Historical Museum - Stara Zagora), Velcho Krastev, Tzvetana Manova (Regional Historical Museum - Pernik), and Gergana Doncheva, as well as Rubin Zemon, PhD (Republic of Macedonia) and Prof. Victor A. Friedman (USA).