Anar Badalov

Anar Badalov is an experienced content strategist and audience engagement specialist currently serving as the Head of Content Strategy and Audience Engagement at The MIT Press since March 2019. In this role, Badalov oversees the MIT Press Reader, a digital magazine launched in 2019 that features excerpts, interviews, and original works based on the Press's extensive catalog. Prior to this position, Badalov worked at Undark Magazine as the Marketing & Communications Manager/Audience Engagement Editor from May 2017 to February 2019, where significant achievements included quadrupling readership and enhancing the magazine's social media presence through various partnerships. Badalov’s earlier tenure at The MIT Press, from November 2008 to May 2017, included roles such as Advertising and Digital Marketing Manager, Associate Publicist, and Assistant Acquisitions Editor, focusing on art, architecture, visual, and cultural studies.