Senior Research Fellow

jelena.ceriman@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

Jelena Ćeriman is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory (IFDT), University of Belgrade. She obtained her PhD in Sociology from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, where she also completed all previous levels of study. She conducted her postdoctoral research in Budapest (Institute for Minority Studies, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 2022) and in Ljubljana (Institute of Culture and Memory Studies, ZRC SAZU, 2023). She is also a recipient of the Engaged Research Fellowship (2022/23), supported by the Talloires Network of Engaged Universities and the Open Society University Network (OSUN). In this research, she focused on the issue of realization of collective rights of national minorities in Serbia.

In addition to her extensive research experience, she has developed strong management skills through her participation in international and national research projects, as well as through leading research teams at IFDT. She served as the coordinator of a research work package within the CERV project CAM2025, as well as the coordinator of the Serbian team on the Disobedient Democracy (DisDem) project. She currently leads a Task force Gender Balance within the CircleU European University alliance. She was also a member of the IFDT research team within the Horizon 2020 project EnTrust.

She published in Regulation & Governance, Nationalities Papers, East European Politics and Societies, and Youth and Society. She is a co-author of the monograph Care in Crises: Rethinking Institutional Ethics for Trafficking Survivors in Serbia Amidst the Pandemic, which received the Anđelka Milić Award for 2026 for its contribution to the development of knowledge production in gender studies in Serbia (theory and research). The results of her research have also been recognized as relevant for the development of public policies, with some findings incorporated into several national strategies in Serbia.

• 2026 Lahusen, C., Ceriman, and A.Kafe. The Fragility of Trust: Interpersonal Encounters, Institutional Distrust, and Conditional Spillovers in the Area of Social Service Delivery. Regulation & Governance1–13.
• 2025 Ćeriman J. Women, Ethnicity, and Peacebuilding: A Case Study of the Councils of National Minorities in Serbia. Nationalities Papers. Published online 2025:1-20.
• 2025 Đorđević, A., J.Fikrlová,Ćeriman, E.Padoan, and L.Štěpánková. Affective and Cognitive Dimensions of Building Interpersonal and Political Trust in Adolescence: A Qualitative Study. Youth and Society. Published online 2025.
• 2025 Ćeriman, J., Hrnjak, and A. Radoičić- Nedeljković. Care in Crisis: Rethinking Institutional Ethics for Trafficking Survivors in Serbia Amidst the Pandemic. Belgrade: Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.
• 2024 Ćeriman, J., and T.Vučković Juroš. From Gender Re-Traditionalizations to Anti-Gender Mobilizations: Care for Family in Serbia and Croatia. East European Politics and Societies 38(2): 662–681.
• 2024 Pantović, Lј., & Ćeriman. (2024). The Business of Umbilical Cord Biobanking in Serbia: Biocapital(ism) and Symbolic Geographies of Health. In: Bojić, Lj., Žikić, S., Matthes, J. & Trilling, D. (Eds.) Navigating the Digital Age. An In-Depth Exploration into the Intersection of Modern Technologies and Societal Transformation (pp. 267-301). University of Vienna & Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory.