SHORT PROFILE
Iliyana Angelova holds MSc and DPhil degrees in Social Anthropology from the University of Oxford and BA and MA degrees in Indology
from Sofia University (Bulgaria). After the award of her doctoral degree in 2016, she worked as a Teach@Tübingen postdoctoral researcher
at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Tübingen (2016–2017) and an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow
at the Department of Anthropology, Maynooth University (2017–2018). In 2018–2021 Dr Angelova was Departmental Lecturer in Study of Religion
at the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford. In April 2021 she joined the Institute for the Study of Religion, University of Bremen
as a senior postdoctoral researcher with her project ‘Surviving the mega-city: the experiences of minority Christian migrants in New Delhi, India’.
Dr Angelova specialises in the anthropological study of non-Western Christianity and works at the intersection of social science,
religious studies, theology and history. She is broadly interested in understanding the entanglements between religion and identity formations,
especially various forms of lived religion, with an ongoing ethnographic focus on Christianity in India. She is a member of several professional bodies,
e.g. the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK), the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) and the European Association for the Study of Religions (EASR),
among others. She is co-speaker of the Working Group ‘Anthropology of Religion’ at the German Association of Social and Cultural Anthropology (DGSKA).
CONTACT INFO
University of Bremen
Faculty 08 – Cultural Studies
Badgasteinerstr. 1
SpT/C6160
28359 Bremen
+49 (421) 218 67923
angelova@uni-bremen.de