Mariya Ivancheva

Senior lecturer at the Strathclyde Institute of Education. Anthropologist and sociologist of higher education and labor. Her advocacy work focuses on the casualization and digitalization of academic labor, the reproduction of intersectional inequalities in universities and high-skilled labor markets, and the role of academic and student communities in broader processes of social change, especially transitions to and from socialism. She is the author of multiple peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, op-eds, and policy reports. Her publications include the monograph “The Alternative University: Lessons from Bolivarian Venezuela” (Stanford University Press, 2023).