Maria Glukhova is an Assistant Professor in the Sociology department at the American University of Central Asia. She is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology from European University (2023, Russia). She holds a Master of Arts in Sociology (2020) and a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology (2018) from Saint Petersburg State University (Russia).

Maria joined AUCA in 2023. She attended the Baikal School of Social Sciences, a summer school for social researchers (2022, Russia), and the Academic Skills in Social Sciences Summer School (2022, Russia). She participated in an exchange program at the University of Helsinki (2019, Finland), attended a winter school at the Europäische Akademie Otzenhausen (2019, Germany), and attended a winter school at the University of Bielefeld (2019, Germany).