RECAS Fellowships 2023/2024

Name and Surname Elona Gjata Affiliation Albanian Institute of Cultural Studies (NGO), Pristina, Kosovo E-mail Address elonagjata2@gmail.com Short Biography Elona Gjata is a linguist with a Doctor of Sciences in Linguistics from the University of Tirana. Her research combines linguistics 0and cultural anthropology, focusing on society and its problems in different regions. Dr. Gjata worked…

RECAS Fellowships 2023/2024

Name and Surname Karlo Kralj Affiliation Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb E-mail ADDRESS karlo.kralj@fpzg.hr Short Biography Karlo Kralj is a postdoctoral researcher at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Zagreb. Karlo holds a PhD in political science and sociology from Scuola Normale Superiore, where he also worked as a postdoctoral…

RECAS Fellowships 2023/2024

Name and Surname Josef Djordjevski Affiliation NCEEER E-mail Address josef.djordjevski@gmail.com Short Biography Josef Djordjevski is a postdoctoral fellow with the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research (NCEEER) in Washington D.C., where he is working on an environmental history of the Yugoslav Wars titled “Landscapes of Transition and Conflict” (LATRACON). Primarily an environmental historian,…

RECAS Fellowships 2023/2024

Name and Surname Valentina Otmačić Affiliation Center for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Rijeka E-mail Address valentina.otmacic@uniri.hr   Short Biography Valentina Otmačić is a researcher and practitioner in the fields of peace, conflict transformation and human rights. She received her PhD in Peace Studies from the University of Bradford (UK), with a thesis titled…

RECAS Fellowships 2023/2024

Name and Surname Kriton Kuci Affiliation MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY OF ALBANIA E-mail Address kritonkuci@umsh.edu.al  Short Biography Kriton Kuci has completed his PhD studies in Balkan Studies at the Department of Balkan, Slavic and Oriental Studies, School of Economic and Regional Studies, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. His PhD dissertation is entitled “Flagging Albanianism. Banal nationalism in…

Research Fellow

Research Fellow tijana.matijevic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEMatijević Tijana After graduating in literary studies in Belgrade and Eastern European studies in Bologna, Tijana Matijević did her PhD at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with the thesis From Post-Yugoslavia to the Female Continent: A Feminist Reading of Post-Yugoslav Literature (transcript 2020). Until 2023 Matijević was a teacher and a…

Research Assistant

Research Assistant srdjan.djurovic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEĐurović Srđan Srđan Đurović is a PhD student at the Faculty of Political Sciences of the University of Belgrade. At the same faculty, he completed his undergraduate studies in international relations and master’s studies in political science. He trained professionally at several specialist programs, including the John F. Kennedy School of…

Research Fellow

Research Fellow maja.pupovac@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEPupovac Maja Maja Pupovac is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, University of Belgrade, and a member of the Laboratory for Active Citizenship and Democratic Innovations [ActiveLab]. She received her doctorate in political science from the University of Macedonia in Thessaloniki and a Master’s degree in…

Research Fellow

Research Fellow dejan.bursac@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEBursać Dejan Dejan Bursać is a research associate at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory of the University of Belgrade. Mainly researching elections and political parties, he has published more than 50 papers and other contributions in academic journals and edited books, both in Serbia and abroad. He is also…

Research Fellow

Research Fellow zoran.eric@ifdt.bg.ac.rs CURRICULUM VITAEErić Zoran Zoran Erić holds a Ph.D. from the Faculty of Media, Bauhaus University in Weimar. His focus is on theoretical research, workshops, and international projects which deal with issues derived from the meeting points of urban sociology, human geography, spatial-cultural discourse, art theory, and political ecology. Latest publications Erić, Zoran,…