Mariya IvanchevaMariya Ivancheva is an anthropologist and sociologist. Her doctoral dissertation (CEU, 2013) explored ethnographically the development of the Bolivarian University of Venezuela. Since then she has worked as a post-doctoral research fellow on projectsexploring housing in (post)socialist Sofia and Caracas (CAS, Sofia 2014), the casualisation of labour in post-crisis academia (UCD, 2014-2017), and the impact of digital technologies and marketisation processes on inequalities in the South African and UK higher education sectors (University of Leeds 2017-2018). Mariya has published widely on the legacy of socialist regimes, and the role of academic intellectuals and universities in processes of social change. She is a member of the editorial board of the web-portal for comments and analyses on Eastern Europe, LeftEast. Read More Read Less