Nadia Kaneva

Nadia Kaneva is a Professor in the Department of Media, Film and Journalism Studies at the University of Denver's College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. She serves as Director of both the MA in Media and Public Communication and the Graduate Certificate in Public Diplomacy.

• Ph.D. in Media Studies, University of Colorado at Boulder (2007)
• MA in Advertising, Syracuse University (1999)
• BA in Journalism and Mass Communication, American University in Bulgaria (1997)

Her research focuses on critical nation branding, public diplomacy, and promotional culture in post-communist contexts. She examines how national identities in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union are constructed through media, markets, and power dynamics. Her work often intersects with neoliberalism, gender studies, and postmodern critiques of media representation.

Key article themes include gender dynamics in public diplomacy, neoliberal remaking of post-war states, and hypermediated national identities. Her publications analyze case studies from Ukraine's wartime branding to Islamic State's ideological challenges to nation-state paradigms.