Pisarri Milovan
Dr Milovan Pisarri is a historian specialising in the social and political history of contemporary Europe, with a particular focus on the countries of the former Yugoslavia and Italy. His research places special emphasis on a multidisciplinary approach to the study of the Holocaust, antisemitism, the genocide of the Roma and antigypsyism, as well as the suffering of civilian populations in Serbia and Yugoslavia during the First and Second World Wars. He also works on the history of nationalism, historical revisionism, and memory culture. He obtained his PhD in 2011 from Ca’ Foscari University of Venice with a dissertation on crimes against civilians in Serbia during the First World War. In early 2018, he founded the Centre for Public History in Belgrade, whose activities focus on the history of the twentieth century in the Balkans, using the methodology of public history. He is the author and coordinator of various international projects, primarily devoted to research, education, and remembrance of the Holocaust. He has received several awards and recognitions, and since 2026 has been included in the final list of outstanding researchers of the Ministry of Science of the Republic of Serbia. He is a member of the Governing Board of the Memorial Centre “Staro sajmište” in Belgrade and of the commission of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia for the next phase of the professional editorial development of the draft script for the joint exhibition in Block 17 at the State Museum “Auschwitz-Birkenau” in the Republic of Poland. He regularly appears in Serbian and international media as a historian and analyst. Within the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, he coordinates the Holocaust Studies Laboratory – ShoahLab.
Latest publications
- Milovan Pisarri, Marijana Stojčić (prir.), Mesta sećanja i disonantno nasleđe prošlosti u savremenoj Srbiji, Institut za filozofiju i društvenu teoriju, Centar za primenjenu istoriju, Beograd, 2026.
- Bureaucracy and local police in occupied territories during the Holocaust: the case of Belgrade (1941-1942), in Goran Miljan and Anders Blomqvist (eds.),
- Agency in the Destruction of the Roma in German-Occupied Serbia: Victims, Perpetrators, Rescuers, in Anton Weiss-Wendt (ed.), A People Destroyed. New Research on the Roma Genocide 1941-1945, Nebraska University Press, Lincoln, 2025, 133-151.