Radoslava Kuneva holds a BA in Cultural Studies (2015) and an MA in Urban Studies (2018) from the Erasmus Mundus “4CITIES” programme and earned her PhD from Sofia University “St. Kliment Ohridski” in 2025 with a dissertation on the role of culture in contemporary European urban planning. Her academic path has included international experience as a visiting doctoral fellow at the Department of Sociology at the University of Vienna and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cagliari.
Radoslava has been a research fellow at Sofia University on projects related to cultural heritage and sustainability. Since 2025, she has also taught as an adjunct lecturer in the Department of History and Theory of Culture, leading seminars in courses of urban anthropology and the anthropology of waste.
Her research interests include the social production of space, urban and environmental imaginaries, and urban governance. Driven by a strong interest in the relationship between humans and their environments, she brings a multidisciplinary lens to her work – an approach further enriched by her passion for birdwatching, which inspires her to explore urban nature through attentive observation.
Selected publications:
- Kuneva, R. “On a bike in the city. Autoethnography of experiences of urban cycling. Experiencing the city on a bike”, Seminar_BG. Online Journal for Cultural Studies, Special Issue 29. Forthcoming
- Kuneva, R. 2024. “The green heritage of Bulgarian cities”, In: Ivan Kabakov (ed.) Cultural memory of the city. Sofia: University Press “St. Kliment Ohridski”, 120-147.
- Kuneva, R. 2023. “Space and Culture: Mapping Culture and Culture Resources”, Critique and Humanism Journal, 59:207-218.