Antoaneta Tileva Professorial Lecturer SIS | 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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