Mandić Marija
Marija Mandić is a senior research fellow at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory University of Belgrade. She was previously employed at the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA (2004–2022) and the Institute for the Serbian Language SASA (1999–2000). She won many scholarships for scientific training and research, among others the Humboldt Research Scholarship for Postdoctoral Fellows (2016–2018), when she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for Slavic and Hungarian Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. Marija Mandić has worked as a leader or associate on many international and national scientific projects. She has continuously conducted qualitative ethnographic and linguistic field research in Serbia, Hungary, Austria, Germany, etc. She has given guest lectures at the University of Belgrade, the University of Kragujevac, the University of Vienna, the Humboldt University in Berlin, the University of Oslo, the University of Tirana, etc. In the school year 2020/2021, she taught Sociolinguistics at the Doctoral Studies Program of the Faculty of Philology and Arts, University of Kragujevac. Her main research interests are linguistic anthropology, critical sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, critical discourse analysis, ethnicity and nationality, minority languages of Southeast Europe, migrations, and social memory.
Latest publications
- Mandić Marija, Rácz Krisztina. 2022. Learning the language of social environment: The case of Hungarian in Vojvodina (Serbia). Current Issues in Language Planning. doi: 10.1080/14664208.2022.2145541
- Vervaet Stijn, Mandić Marija. 2022. Mapping Minority Multilingualism: Perspectives from Central and South-Eastern European Borderlands – Introduction to the Thematic Issue. Zeitschrift für Slawistik 67(4): 501–510.
- Mandić, Marija. The Serbian Proverb Poturica gori od Turčina (A Turk-convert is Worse Than a Turk): Stigmatizer and Figure of Speech. In Imagining Bosnian Muslims in Central Europe: Representations, Transfers and Exchanges, ed. František Šístek, 170–193. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books.
- Mandić, Marija. 2021. Fractal Recursivity in Monolingual Nationalism: The Rejection of Hungarian in Serbian Ethno-Confessional Schools. Mediterranean Language Review 28: 65–88