Milena Popov

Dr. Milena Popov serves as an Adjunct Associate Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, The City University of New York (CUNY), with concurrent teaching appointments at New York University's Steinhardt School (fashion and power courses) and Fordham University (digital technology and emerging media courses). She is a founding architect of John Jay's Environmental Justice and Sustainability Minor (EJS), driving interdisciplinary collaboration between academic units.

Her educational credentials include a PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies complemented by both an MFA and BFA in Painting and Education, establishing her foundation in studio art and pedagogical theory.

Dr. Popov's research interrogates contemporary art and design at the volatile nexus of political systems, technological evolution, and ecological crisis. She pioneers frameworks like eco-aesthetics and sustainability across curricula, while critically engaging biopolitics, Anthropocene narratives, post-humanist theory, and digital heterotopia. Her practice actively merges artistic creation with environmental science through participatory projects that confront systemic injustices.

Signature courses such as "Eco Art and Design" and "When Nature Roars: Artistic, Media and Scientific Representations" exemplify her method—fusing studio art with environmental justice to link John Jay's Art department and EJS minor. These courses model transdisciplinary approaches to climate communication and community engagement.

No scientific awards were documented in the source material.

Dr. Popov maintains extensive mentorship through studio courses and the EJS minor, though specific advisees and research grants remain unlisted in available records.

As core faculty in the Environmental Justice and Sustainability Minor, she cultivates a dynamic intellectual community where artists, scientists, and activists collaborate on decolonial sustainability praxis, emphasizing art's role in envisioning post-Anthropocene futures.