Iva Petkova-Cutler

Professor at Ringling College of Art + Design, Curriculum Advisor for Social and Behavioral Sciences in the Liberal Arts program and Coordinator for Gender and Sexuality studies minor. As a sociologist of culture and organizations, I study shifts in the organizational behavior of creative industries to emerging digital practice. As an institutional ethnographer, I am particularly interested in the transformation of collective organizational rituals in incumbent elites and the role of emerging digital entrepreneurs in this process. My work on the subject is published in Poetics, and my book "Engineering Legitimacy: How institutional entrepreneurs in E-Commerce bring fashion companies to the Digital Age" is with Palgrave Macmillan. I received my PhD in Sociology from Columbia University in May 2014. I hold MSc in International Business with the School of Business, Economics, and Law at Gothenburg University in Sweden, and MA in International Relations with the University of National and World Economy in Sofia, Bulgaria. I'm an avid runner, yoga/gym enthusiast, fair trade coffee-drinking fashionista, and a protector and lover of all animals, especially my two goddess cats Kali and Maya. I am also an active member of the Academy of Management, the American Sociological Association, and EGOS (European Group for Organizational Studies).

Companies

• Coordinator Gender and Sexuality Minor ringlin (2020)
• Program Advisor Social & Behavioral Sciences (SBSC) Ringling College of Art and Design (2016)
• Professor, Program Advisor Social and Behavioral Sciences Ringling College of Art and Design (2016)
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology Davidson College (2014 — 2016)
• Research Associate, Division of Management Columbia University in the City of New York (2013 — 2014)
• Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology Columbia University (2007 — 2014)
• Research Fellow, Center on Organizational Innovation (COI) Columbia University (2007 — 2014)
• Teaching Fellow, Department of Sociology Columbia University in the City of New York (2013 — 2013)
• Visiting Scholar Copenhagen Business School (2010 — 2010)

Education

• PhD Sociology / M.A. / MPhil Columbia University in the City of New York (2007 — 2014)
• M.Sc. Göteborgs universitet / University of Gothenburg (2003 — 2005)
• B.A. / M.A. University for National and World Economy (1994 — 1999)