Armanda Hysa is anthropologist from Tirana, working in the fields of comparative Balkan studies, urban history, and ethnic relations in the Balkans. She has conducted research on the legacy of the Ottoman bazaar and works at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology, Centre of Albanian Studies in Tirana. Between 2012 – 2014 she was a research fellow at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies in London, where she won the Alexander Nash scholarship for Albanian Studies.