I am a psychologist and political sociologist doing research on a range of grassroots responses to nationalism, patriarchy, and authoritarianism in Yugoslavia and the post-Yugoslav space. So far I have written about the history and politics of Yugoslav feminism, anti-war activism, LGBTQ engagement, the anthropology of non-heterosexuality and gender variance, LGBTQ-affirmative psychotherapy, and the initiatives for democratising psychiatry.
I am currently a Lise Meitner Fellow at the Research Unit Gender Studies, Faculty of Philosophy and Education, University of Vienna, an adjunct professor of Gender and Social Movements in South East Europe at the School of Political Sciences, University of Bologna (Forlì Campus), and a visiting lecturer at the University of Sarajevo Center for Interdisciplinary Studies.
Before moving to Vienna I 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, a fellow at the Centre for Advanced Study of Southeastern Europe at the University of Rijeka. In the Autumn of 2022, I was a visiting scholar at the Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies at UC Berkeley.
I hold a PhD in Slavonic and East European Studies (Political Sociology) from University College London where I studied under Professor Eric Gordy.
I am also the founder of the Queering YU Network, an informal collective of scholars and activists which explores the history and politics of (post-)Yugoslav queer initiatives.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Autumn 2023 Visiting Scholar (University Guest)
Department of Social and Political Sciences
University of Melbourne
Melbourne, Australia
Autumn 2022 Visiting Scholar
Institute of Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, USA
3/2022 – present Visiting Lecturer
Center for Interdisciplinary Studies
University of Sarajevo
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
9/2021 – present 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
