Anna Krasteva is professor of political sciences at the New Bulgarian University, doctor honoris causa of University Lille 3. She teaches and is member of the board of the European MA on democracy and human rights at the Universities of Sarajevo and Bologna. Her main fields of research are post-communist democratization; civic mobilizations; contestatory, solidary and e-citizenship; populist youth. She is editor-in-chief of the international journal Southeastern Europe (Brill), member of the editorial boards of Nationalism and ethnic politics (Routledge), and of numerous international academic boards. She leads the projects “Securitization and its impact on human rights and human security” of the Global campus for human rights.