Albena Dzhurova

Albena Dzhurova

Albena is a Ph.D. Candidate at the School of Public Administration, Florida Atlantic University. She has been the ADSPA Vice President since 2019, actively working to promote the organization’s signature event, the Annual Colloquium, as well as other collaborative activities. Albena’s academic interests include public policy, organization studies, critical theory, and interpretive methods. Her dissertation examines competing narratives of legislators and other stakeholders within the U.S. immigration policy in order to illustrate how narrative construction affects policy action. Through critical lens, she studies how political and professional elites use language to reinforce existing power structures and advance divergent views of immigration.