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Lora Koycheva is a social anthropologist whose research centers on the intersections between anthropology, innovation, and business. Her practice is characterized by bringing anthropological insights and methods to interdisciplinary endeavors in bridging disciplinary divides, and in creating impact and relevance through applied research. Lora holds a bachelo’s degree in cultural studies from Columbia College Chicago, IL, US, and a master´s and doctoral degree in anthropology from Northwestern University, IL, US. She was previously the Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at University College London, UK.
Lora has also researched and taught at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) where she was a senior research associate. She has taught a variety of courses on social and cultural anthropology, business anthropology for innovation and entrepreneurship, and anthropology and demography, in the US, the UK, and Germany. Her work has been accepted and presented at premier conferences, such as the American Anthropological Association, Ethnographic Practice in Industry Community, European Association of Social Anthropologists Conference, Babson College Entrepreneurship Conference, G-Forum, and Entrepreneurship as Practice. She is currently a co-convenor of the European Association of Social Anthropologists Applied Anthropology Network (EASA AAN).
Find out more about Lora on her Linkedin profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lora-koycheva/.
Selected Publications:
- “Empathy, More or Less: Scaling Intermediary Experiences of Emotion and Affect in Innovation.” Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings 2020, no. 1 (2020): 243–262.
- “Plenitude.” In Anthropocene Unseen: A Lexicon, edited by Cymene Howe and Anand Pandian, 331–335. Santa Barbara: Punctum Books, 2019.