Ćeriman Jelena

Jelena Ćeriman is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. She is a Coordinator of the Gender Research Laboratory, one of the main Institutes’ research units. She obtained her PhD in sociology at the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. Before joining the Institute, she spent seven years working in secondary school in Belgrade as a teacher of sociology and civic education. Now she deals with educational policies through engagement as an expert in working groups of the two main Institutes in this area in the Republic of Serbia: Institute for Improvement of Education and the Institute for Education Quality and Evaluation.

Her current research is situated at the intersections of cultural and political sociology and include comparative interdisciplinary studies on family practices, social assistance and care in European countries, and studies of civil society in WB countries. She is engaged as a leader, associate or expert-consultant on many international scientific projects, such as Horizont 2020 EnTrust, Disobedient Democracy (DisDem), CircleU, UNIGEM… and she is also a recipient of a scholarship for engaged research in 2022/23 Using your rights: Empowering Serbian Minorities Through Their National Councils.

Latest publications

  • (2023) with Tanja Vučković Juroš, From Gender Re-traditionalizations to Anti-gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia, East European Politics & Societies and Cultures (forthcoming).
  • (2022) with Jelena Hrnjak i Andrijana Radoičić-Nedeljković, Institutional ethics of care in Serbia during the COVID-19 pandemic: A case study on the effects of the lockdown measures on girls and women trafficking survivors, Philosophy and Society, 33(4): 895-909. https://doi.org/10.2298/FID2204895C