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Antoaneta Tileva Professorial Lecturer Peace, Human Rights & Cultural Relations

Degrees
Ph.D., Cultural Anthropology, American University; 2019
M.A., International Affairs, American University
B.A., Psychology/English, Georgetown University

Favorite Spot on Campus
Basement of the library, reading the newspapers on actual paper
Bio
A few of my scholarly interests: language in general and linguistic anthropology, food, all things Eastern European, gentrification and placemaking, economic anthropology, informality.
I am the Faculty Advisor for Food-Fueled, a student journal on food issues.
Honored with the Outstanding Teaching Award in May 2024.
Avid bibliophile and cruciverbalist.
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For the Media
To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

Teaching

Summer 2024

  • ANTH-215 Sex,Gender & Culture

Fall 2024

  • HNRS-050 Honors Supplement: Amricn Cncls RLASP - Kazkhstn

  • SISU-205 Intercultural Communication

  • SISU-205 Intercultural Communication

  • SISU-260 Identity, Race, Gender & Cultr

Spring 2025

  • SISU-205 Intercultural Communication

  • SISU-205 Intercultural Communication

  • SISU-240 Global Inequality & Devel

AU Experts

Area of Expertise

Feminism issues, gentrification and placemaking, intercultural communications, Eastern Europe, Bulgaria and Bulgarian politics, left-leaning and radical movements

Additional Information

Prof. Antoaneta Tileva is a cultural anthropologist. She teaches courses on feminism, linguistic anthropology, identity, intercultural communication, and global inequality and development. She is particularly skilled at drawing connections between complex issues and speaking with a general audience in mind. She has a depth of knowledge about feminism, pop culture, and left-leaning/"radical" movements. She can explain the critiques of capitalism and what Marxism brings to the present. She is also really interested in cultural heritage, food, rituals, and spirituality.

For the Media

To request an interview for a news story, call AU Communications at 202-885-5950 or submit a request.

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