Education: 2008: PhD in social anthropology, University of Belgrade 2007-2008: OSI/FCO Chevening visiting PhD scholarship, University of Oxford 2006: M.Phil. in social anthropology, University of Belgrade 2004: B.A. (Hons.) in social anthropology, University of Belgrade Research and teaching experience: August 2013-present: Post-doctoral fellow, Department of Education (DPU), University of Aarhus, Universities in Knowledge Economies (UNIKE); own research focuses on the construction of the links between universities, civil society and democracy in contemporary higher education 2012-present: Research associate, Humanities Research Center, Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration, Moscow, Utopias and projects in the history of Soviet education of the 1960s-1980s in a comparative perspective ; own research focuses on the changing concepts of the role of education in socialist Yugoslavia 2010-present: Research associate, Faculty of Political Sciences, University of Belgrade, Gender and cultural citizenship in transition ; own research focuses on the relationship between higher education policy discourses and concepts of citizenship, community, subjectivity and belonging in the context of postsocialist transformation January 2012-August 2013: Visiting professor, Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest; teaching graduate courses on the politics and policies of higher education 2012: Visegrad fellow at the Open Society Archives, Budapest; research topic: Education policy and reform in socialist / communist Yugoslavia 2010-2012: Visiting research fellow, Department of Public Policy, Central European University, Budapest; research topic: Public role of universities in Central and Eastern Europe 2009-2011: Assistant professor, Singidunum University, Belgrade 2008-2010: Research associate, Centre for Education Policy, Belgrade 2004-2007: Researcher and teaching assistant, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade Languages: English (full proficiency), French (advanced), Spanish (intermediate), Italian (basic), Hungarian (basic), Serbian/Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin (native) Membership in professional societies: Consortium of higher education researchers (CHER); European Educational Research Association (EERA); Network of early career researchers in higher education (ECHER-NET) board member; European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA). Reviewer: Policy Press (University of Bristol), International Journal of Educational Development (Elsevier), Austrian Journal of Political Science (University of Vienna), Center for Education Policy Studies Journal (University of Ljubljana) 1
Bibliography 2013 From class to identity: politics of education reforms in former Yugoslavia, Budapest, CEU press, October 2013. What kind of university for what kind of society? Nation-states, postnational constellations, and higher education in the post-yugoslav space. In: Zgaga, P., Teichler, U. and J. Brennan, eds. The globalization challenge for European higher education. New York: Peter Lang, pp. 287-308. 2012 Borders of the Europe of Knowledge? Higher Education, Mobility and Knowledge Transfer in the Western Balkans, Der Donauraum 51 (2011) 3-4, pp. 211-224 2011 Universities in Post Conflict Societies, In: Bergan, S et al. (ed): Leadership and Governance in Higher Education: The Handbook, RAABE Academic publishers, Berlin, 2011. Public policies in Serbia: education (with Sanja Petkovska), in: Podunavac, M. (ed.): Public Policies in Serbia, Belgrade: Heinrich Boell Stiftung and Faculty of Political Sciences [in Serbian]. 2010 2009 2008 2006 Transformation of the working conditions of the academic staff: teaching and research, In: Jaric, I. (ed): The Bologna Reform of Educational System in Serbia, Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory [in Serbian]. Masters or Servants? Power and Discourse in Serbian Higher Education Reform. Social Anthropology Vol. 18 No. 1, 43-56. Higher Education and Human Capital Development in Kosovo: Some Issues for Consideration. Der Donauraum, 1/2010, Vienna 2010, 11-24. Assessment of Post-Secondary Education in Kosovo for Minority Communities (with Milica Popovic), report prepared for SPARK Netherlands. Anthropological Educational Policy in the Light of European Transformations, Studia Ethnologica Croatica 2008. Vol. 20, No. 1., 37-55. Anthropology, Education and Citizenship in the New Europe: Between Theory and Policy. Symposia, Journal for Studies in Ethnology and Anthropology, Craiova 2006. 2
2005 From Public Place to Market-Place: Critiques of Contemporary Education and their Relevance in Serbia (Od trga do tržnice: antropologija, kritike savremenog obrazovanja, i njihov značaj za Srbij), Etno-antropološki problemi 2, Beograd 2006. [in Serbian]. A 'Look Back': an Analysis of the Introduction of Vocational Education in Socialist Yugoslavia ('Pogled unazad': antropološka analiza uvođenja usmerenog obrazovanja u SFRJ), Antropologija 1, Beograd 2006. [in Serbian]. King's Advisor or King's Fool: Pierre Bourdieu and the Anthropology of Education in Serbia (Kraljev savetnik ili kraljeva luda: Pjer Burdije i antropologija obrazovanja u Srbiji. U: Nasleđe Pjera Burdijea: Pouke i nadahnuća, ur. Miloš Nemanjić i Ivana Spasić). Beograd: Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju. [in Serbian]. Educational Policy Between Nationalist and Euro-Integrationist Politics: a Case Study of Serbian Educational Reform, IDEA arta + societate no. 20, (http://idea.ro/revista/?q=en/node/41&articol=293). 2003 Genderstereotype und Bildungspolitik am Beispiel serbisch-orthodoxer Religionsbücher, in: Die Gender-perspektive im Unterricht, Heinrich Boell Stiftung & Kulturkontakt Austria, Sarajevo 2003 (Gender Stereotypes and Education Policy in Serbian Orthodox Religious Education Textbooks) [in German]. Invited lectures, conference presentations, panel chairs September 2013: European Education Research Association (EERA) Annual Conference, Istanbul, Turkey: Another Brick in the Wall? Employability and the Construction of Education Labour Market Relationships in the EU and Former Yugoslavia, paper, and Collectivity Revisited: Dilemmas of Mass Education under Socialism (1945-1989), workshop presentation June 2013: Bologna and Beyond: Experts, entrepreneurs, users and the internationalisation of Higher Education institutions, Institut d Etudes Politiques, Strasbourg, panel chair December 2012: Centre for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz conference: Bringing class back in? The dynamics of social change in (post)yugoslavia, Marija Bistrica, Croatia: Vocationalizing unrest: education, conflict and class reproduction in Socialist Yugoslavia, paper presentation September 2012: European Education Research Association (EERA) Annual Emerging Researchers Conference, Cadiz, Spain: The Concept of Public Responsibility in the European Higher Education Area, paper presented with Klemen Miklavic 3
September 2012: Consortium of Higher Education Researchers (CHER) annual conference, Belgrade, Serbia: Borders of the Europe of knowledge? Constructing the explanatory variables in understanding the transformation of higher education in the Western Balkans, paper presentation September 2012: Visegrad lecture series at the Open Society Archives, Budapest, Hungary: Voca(tiona)lizing unrest? Education reform in socialist Yugoslavia, invited lecture July 2012: Center for Advanced Study (CASE) week, European Humanities University (EHU), Vilnius, Lithuania: "European integration in higher education and research: social and political context" and "Europeanisation of higher education? Implications and challenges in post-communist countries", invited lectures May 2012: Regional Research Promotion Programme (RRPP) annual conference, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina: co-chairing the panel on Post-conflict arrangements and democracy May 2012: University of Oslo and University of Zagreb conference European Integration in Higher Education and Research in the Western Balkans, Zagreb, Croatia: Higher Education between Europe and the Orient? The methodological repercussions of using European integration as the framework for understanding change processes in higher education in the Western Balkans, paper presentation December 2011: Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM), The Paradox of the Bologna Process Education, Employment and Mobility in the Danube Region, Vienna, Austria: Borders of the Europe of Knowledge? European Higher Education Area and the Western Balkans, invited presentation November 2011: Center for Education Policy Studies (CEPS), Ljubljana, Slovenia Sympozion: Universities and their communities: Nation-states, supra-national identities and post-national constellations, conference presentation August 2011: European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) General conference, Reykjavik, Iceland: Higher education and citizenship in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe: exploring the links, conference presentation June 2011: Social Sciences, Humanities and Higher Education in Eastern Europe after 1991, EHU, Vilnius, Lithuania: What is Higher Education for? The Role of Universities in the Transformation Processes in Central and Eastern Europe, conference presentation June 2011: CHER annual conference, Reykjavik, Iceland: Universities and democracy: institutional discourses in Central and Eastern Europe, conference presentation 4
December 2010: Central European University, Budapest, Hungary: Higher Education and Post-Conflict Development: Case studies of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo, invited lecture June 2010: CHER annual conference, Oslo, Norway: Universities and Development in Post-Conflict Environment: the Cases of Serbia, Macedonia and Kosovo, paper presentation August 2008: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) bi-annual conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia: Masters or Servants? Power and Discourse in Serbian Higher Education Reform, paper presentation 5