[1] In the period 1999-2001 he was Deputy Minister of Regional Development and Public Works of the Republic of Bulgaria.

[2] Vasil Garnizov has held numerous expert advisory posts and has written widely for the Bulgarian press.

Between 2004 and 2009, he was an Expert in the Parliamentary Committee on Regional Development, Local Authorities, and Public Works for the Bulgarian Parliament.

He conducted more than a hundred interviews on funeral traditions in more than ten villages in north-western Bulgaria.

[5] Vasil Garnizov together with Petko Stainov and Angel Angelov introduces the concept of ‘ethnopragmatism’ during the international conference “Models of knowing” in Varna in September 1988.

[8] In mid-90s he published a study on the Bulgarian pomacs, in which he argues that they are not a homogeneous group and identifies three subgroups.

He also studies ecological attitudes of the population and the ways in which culture contributes and hinders to the protection of the environment.