Miglena S. Todorova

Associate Professor in Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies of Education, University of Toronto.

Affiliated Faculty, Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Current affiliations

Ontario Institute for Studies of Education
Centre for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies

Biography

Miglena S. Todorova is Associate Professor in Social Justice Education, Ontario Institute for Studies of Education, University of Toronto. Her interdisciplinary research, teaching and publications cross cultural, gender, and educational studies, as well as Canada, the United States and former socialist countries in Eastern Europe and the Balkans. Dr. Todorova is the Director of the Centre for Media, Culture and Education at the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto where her research further supports media and cultural literacy focused on social differences locally and globally. Todorova’s work has been published in leading academic journals, such as Meridians: Race and Transnational Feminisms, TOPIA: Cultural Studies, Canadian Woman Studies, and Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies. She is the author of Unequal under Socialism: Race, Women and Transnationalism in Bulgaria published in 2021 by the University of Toronto Press. Dr. Todorova is the co-editor of the book collection Decolonizing the Spirit in Education and Beyond (2019) by Palgrave Macmillan Press. She is the recipient of the Canadian Association for the Study of Women and Education/ Association Canadienne Pour L’étude sur les Femmes et L’éducation (CASWE/ACÉFÉ) 2023 Award Achievement for Outstanding Research and Teaching Contributions to Women and Education in Canada.

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Books
Monograph
Todorova, Miglena. (2021). Unequal under socialism: Race, women, and transnationalism in Bulgaria. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
(Nominated for ASEEES Davis Center Book Prize in Political and Social Studies 2022; Featured by New Books Network, October 4, 2022: https://newbooksnetwork.com/unequal-under-socialism).

Edited Collection
Wane, Njoki, Miglena Todorova & *Kimberly Todd (eds.). (2019). Decolonising the spirit in education and beyond. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. (Reviewed in Journal of College and Character, November 2021)

Special Journal Edition
Todorova, Miglena, Njoki Wane, Njoki, *Benn-John, Jaqueline & *DeMello, Tanya (Toni). Guest Editors. (2018). Sexual and gender violence in education: Transnational, global and local perspectives. Canadian Woman Studies, Volume 32, Numbers 1/2.

Select Articles in Peer-reviewed Scholarly Journals

Todorova. Miglena (Forthcoming). Facing the limitations of teaching and learning committed to solidarity and social justice: A transnational feminist approach. Canadian Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning.
Todorova, Miglena. (2023). Socialist/Postsocialist studies and the global Left: A critical commentary. Journal of Socialist Studies/Études socialistes, 16(1). https://socialiststudies.com/index.php/sss/article/view/27336/20235
Todorova, Miglena, *Brooks, Hayley, *Persaud, Rachel & *Moorhouse, Emily. (2022). Sexual violence prevention and international students: Misalignments, gaps, and ways forward. Journal of Comparative and International Education, 50(2): 33- 50.