Bilyana Petrova

Bilyana Petrova is a political scientist specializing in political economy. Her research interests lie at the intersection of comparative politics and international relations. She has worked on the determinants of economic inequality and redistribution, the causes and consequences of the rise of the financial sector in industrialized democracies, and the factors that affect individual attitudes toward democracy and redistribution in post-communist countries. She received her Ph.D. in political science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and was previously a postdoctoral fellow in the Max Weber Programme at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she worked on a book manuscript exploring the impact of structural economic transformations and economic policy choices on market income inequality in Eastern Europe and Latin America.

Petrova is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Political Science at Texas Tech University.