Dr Bojan Bilić a Lise Meitner Fellow at the Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna, and an adjunct professor of Gender and Social Movements in South East Europe at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Forlì campus. He was a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellow at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research, Centre for Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Amsterdam, an EntE Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study - New Europe College in Bucharest, a Volkswagen New Dem Junior Fellow at the Central European University Institute for Advanced Study in Budapest, an FCT Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, as well as a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study of Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka. During the 2013/2014 academic year, he worked as academic tutor (tutor accademico) at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna, Forlì campus. Dr Bilić holds a PhD in Slavonic and East European Studies (Political Sociology) from University College London School of Slavonic and East European Studies (UCL SSEES) for which he was awarded a UCL Foundation Fellowship and an Open Society Institute doctoral grant. During his PhD, Dr Bilić was a visiting scholar at the University of Belgrade Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory and at the University of Zagreb Faculty of Philosophy as well as a visiting doctoral researcher in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the Central European University.
Dr Bilić’s interests include socio-political transformations and social movements in Eastern Europe. His books We Were Gasping for Air: (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Activism and Its Legacy (Nomos, 2012) and Resisting the Evil: (Post-)Yugoslav Anti-War Contention (co-edited with Vesna Janković, Nomos, 2012) trace the origins and development of the anti-war movement in Yugoslavia. By demonstrating that the wars of the Yugoslav succession were preceded and accompanied by intense antinationalist civic engagement, these books subvert the nationalism paradigm which dominated the field of Yugoslav studies for more than a decade. His edited volume LGBT Activism and Europeanisation in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space: On the Rainbow Way to Europe (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) interrogates the forms and implications of the increasingly potent symbolic nexus that has developed between non-heterosexual sexualities, LGBT activism(s), and Europeanisation(s) in all of the post-Yugoslav states. The volume LGBT Activist Politics and Intersectionality: Multiple Others in Serbia and Croatia (co-edited with Sanja Kajinić, Palgrave Macmillan, 2016) examines the relationship between interlocking discriminations, non-heteronormativity, and LGBT engagement in Serbia and Croatia, whereas Sisterhood and Unity: Lesbian Activism in the (Post-)Yugoslav Space (co-edited with Marija Radoman, Palgrave Macmillan, 2019) explores the history and politics of lesbian organising in the post-Yugoslav space. His second monograph Building Better Times: Trauma, Violence, and Lesbian Agency in Serbia and Croatia (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020) highlights the intricate developmental trajectory of Croatian and Serbian lesbian activisms from their beginnings in the war-ridden 1990s, through the first, mostly lesbian-led, Pride marches in Belgrade and Zagreb, to the appointment of the first openly lesbian prime minister in Eastern Europe. The volume Transgender in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Lives, Activisms, Culture (co-edited with Iwo Nord and Aleksa Milanović, Policy Press/Bristol University Press, 2022) engages with trans experience, the politics of trans activist organising as well as with trans-related popular and alternative cultural representations in the post-Yugoslav states.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
From 9/2021 Lise Meitner Fellow
Fellowship of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF)
Faculty of Philosophy and Education
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
4/2016 – present Adjunct Professor of Gender and Social Movements in South East Europe
School of Political Sciences
University of Bologna
Forlì, Italy
Spring 2021 Fellow
Center for Advanced Study of Southeastern Europe
University of Rijeka
Rijeka, Croatia
6/2017 – 7/2021 FCT Fellow
Fellowship of the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology
Institute of Social Sciences
University of Lisbon
Lisbon, Portugal
10/2016 – 3/2017 EntE Fellow
New Europe College
Institute for Advanced Study
Bucharest, Romania
10/2014 – 9/2016 Marie Curie Fellow
Centre for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
9/2013 – 9/2014 MIREES Academic Tutor
Tutor accademico
School of Political Sciences
University of Bologna
Forlì, Italy
10/2012 – 3/2013 Volkswagen Stiftung NewDem Junior Fellow
Institute for Advanced Study
Central European University
Budapest, Hungary
Degree courses
1/2010 – 7/2012 PhD in Slavonic and East European Studies (degree ungraded)
UCL SSEES Foundation Fellowship & OSI Doctoral Grant
School of Slavonic and East European Studies (SSEES)
Centre for South-East European Studies
University College London (UCL)
University of London
London, UK
Disciplinary focus: Political and Historical Sociology, Social Movement Theory
Qualitative Methodology, History of Yugoslavia
Supervisor: Dr Eric Gordy, Professor of Political and Cultural Sociology, UCL SSEES
Advisor: Dr Ger Duijzings, Reader in the Anthropology of Eastern Europe, UCL SSEES
Internal examiner: Dr Jasna Dragović-Soso, Goldsmiths, University of London
External examiner: Dr Maja Korać-Sanderson, University of East London
2008 – 2009 MRes in Social and Political Sciences (degree ungraded)
Department of Social and Political Sciences
European University Institute
Florence, Italy
Supervisor: Professor Donatella Della Porta
2006 – 2008 MA in Comparative Politics and Sociology (GPA: 1.1/1.0)
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Jacobs University Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Supervisor: Professor Margrit Schreier
2003 – 2005 BSc in Psychology with First Class Honours
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
CITY College, International Faculty of the University of Sheffield
Thessaloniki, Greece
Supervisor: Dr Eugenie Georgaca
