Research Fellow

ljiljana.pantovic@ifdt.bg.ac.rs

CURRICULUM VITAE

Pantović Ljiljana

Ljiljana Pantović holds a PhD in Anthropology (2019) from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). She received distinguished fellowships while working on her PhD: Andrew Mellon Predissertation Scholarship (2014/2015), Klinzing Grant for Doctoral Research (2016/2017) and Social Sciences Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship of the University of Pittsburgh (2017/2018). She has worked as a postdoctoral fellow and researcher on the international project Geography of Philosophy: Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Research on Universality and Diversity in Fundamental Philosophical Concepts (2019-2020), supported by the Templeton Foundation. Since 2020, she has been employed as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy and Social Theory, where she works on issues of care, health, and gender in post-socialist Eastern Europe from an interdisciplinary perspective. She is a member of the laboratory for the study of philanthropy, solidarity and care, the laboratory for the research of socialism and (post)Yugoslav studies, as well as the laboratory for gender research. She was the lead researcher of the project Closeness and Care: Care for the elderly in Serbia during the COVID19 pandemic (2021/2022), which was implemented with the support of the Open Society University Network (OSUN). Ljiljana is the institute coordinator for OSUN. She has published several academic papers in prestigious academic journals and is the author of several book chapters. She is currently working on her first manuscript based on doctoral research on maternal health care in Serbia.

Latest publications

  • Pantović, Lj., & Zarić, Z. (2022). Care in the Anthropocene: Acting with Compassion. Filozofija i društvo/Philosophy and Society, 33(4), 881-894.
  • Pantović, Lj. (2022). Providing a service or seeking a favor? The role of private prenatal care on the continuity of care in Serbian public maternity hospitals. Birth, 49(3), 506-513.
  • Pantović, Lj. (2022). Baby (Not So) Friendly: Implementation of the Baby-Friendly Hospital Initiative in Serbia. Anthropologies of Global Maternal and Reproductive Health: From Policy Spaces to Sites of Practice, 17-35.
  • Pantović, Lj. (2021). Somebodies or nobody’s patient: the importance of social positioning and informal relations during childbirth in Serbia. Гласник Етнографског института САНУ, 69(1), 205-225.