Meglena Zlatkova teaches Social anthropology in the Ethnology department of the Plovdiv University “Paisiy Hilendarski”. Her scientific research and academic interests are in the fields of urban anthropology, visual anthropology, ethno-sociology. She has taken part in research on topics such as urban space dynamics, migration and borders, heritage and local development. She has participated at numerous scientific conferences and has been a lecturer at the universities of Ljubljana, Lyon, Prague, Bochum and Budapest.
Her interest in the urban environment and urban communities has led her to take part in projects, which combine architecture, urban planning, anthropology, urban space visualisation, exhibitions and multimedia presentations. She is a regular leader of student assignments and projects, which deal with different aspects of urban culture and urban lifestyle.
She has authored “Ethnosociology of the city. The example of Plovdiv” (2012), in which the focus falls on the city in transition and the transformations of the spaces of Trakiya. Another book of hers is “Urban heritage and borders. Edirne and Tsarevo” (2016), which presents a research on spaces of migration on both sides of the Bulgarian-Turkish border.