EDUCATION

2018 – 2022

University of Regensburg – Regensburg, Germany
Graduate School for East and Southeast European Studies

Doctoral Studies in History

Doctoral Thesis: Sickle without a Hammer: Revolution and Nation-Building in the Balkans, 1900s-1930s

Supervisor: Ulf Brunnbauer

2019

Higher School of Economics – Moscow, Russian Federation

Exchange and Archival Research Trip, September 2019 – November 2019

Supervisor: Oleg Khlevniuk

2016 – 2018

Central-European University – Budapest, Hungary

Master of Arts in Comparative History

Master’s Thesis: Learning Leninism: Factional Struggles in the Communist Party of Yugoslavia During the Great Purge, 1936-1940

Supervisor: Alfred J. Rieber;
External Supervisor: Ondřej Vojtěchovský, Charles University in Prague

GPA: 3.98 (Class rank: 1/21)

2012 – 2016

Anglo-American University – Prague, Czech Republic

Bachelor of Arts in Humanities, Society and Culture

Bachelor’s Thesis: Books and Rifles: Political Activity of Yugoslav Communist Students in Prague, 1927-1937

Supervisor: William Eddleston

GPA: 3.97

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Books

Articles and Book Chapters

Book Reviews

Polemics

CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS

November 9–12, 2023

Twentieth Annual Historical Materialism Conference, SOAS University of London, United Kingdom

Paper: “When the Comintern Was Trotskyist: Permanent Revolution in the Third Period”
October 26–28, 2023

“Different Shades of Red: Conference on Socialism and Communism,” University of Montreal, Canada

Paper: “Conscience of the Revolution: Marxist Criticisms of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, 1919–1941”
May 18–20, 2023

Conference “Yugoslavs in the Spanish Republican Army (1936–1939),” Institute for Recent History of Serbia, Belgrade, Serbia

Paper: “Yugoslav Volunteers in Spain, Factional Struggles within the Communist Party of Yugoslavia, and the Genesis of Historiographical Controversies”
March 6-8, 2023

International Rosa Luxemburg Conference, Nord Universitet, Bodø, Norway

Paper: “Reception of Rosa Luxemburg in the Balkans during the World Revolution, 1917–1923”
February 16, 2023

“Balkan Communism Revisited,” MacMillan Center, Yale University, USA

Paper: “Sickle Without Hammer: a Balkan Perspective on Communism from the Comintern to the Cominform”
January 4-6, 2023

Study Group on the Russian Revolution – Annual Conference, “Brotherhood of Nations? Centenary Perspectives on the creation of the USSR,” University of Southampton, United Kingdom

Paper: “From the Taiga to the British Seas: The Russian Revolution as a World Revolution, 1917–1923”
September 2–4, 2022

Conference “Rethinking Intellectual History in East Central Europe. Transformation of Identities in Central Europe and Politicisation of the Masses,” Department of General History at Faculty of Arts, Comenius University in Bratislava, Institute of History at the Slovak Academy of Sciences and the international research group Intellectual History in East Central Europe, Bratislava, Slovakia

Paper: “Revolutionary Conjuncture on the Periphery: Jenő Rozvány and ‘Leninism before Lenin’”
June 30–July 2, 2022

Conference “Les Quatrièmes Rencontres d’Etudes Balkaniques: Balkans connectés (The Fourth Balkan Study Meetings: Connected Balkans),” French Association for Balkan Studies (AFEBalk), hosted by MuCEM – Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations, Marseille, France

Paper: “Colonies within Interwar Europe? The Balkan Communist Federation as a Precursor of Anti-Colonialism”
September 30-October 2, 2021

Conference “Socijalizam na klupi (Socialism on the Bench),” Online, hosted by the Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia

Paper: “With the Bourgeoisie against the Bourgeoisie: The Antifascism of Josip Broz Tito, 1938-1948”
September 29-October 2, 2021

Sixth Congress of Croatian Historians, University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Paper: “Colonies in Europe? The Balkan Communist Parties and the Comintern’s “National-Revolutionary Period,” 1928-1934”
July 19-20, 2021

Workshop “Transitions in East Central Europe: An Intellectual History Approach,” Institute for Contemporary History, Ljubljana, Slovenia

Paper: “Imagined Continuities: Balkan Communist Parties and Their Social-Democratic Roots”
May 28-30, 2021

Conference “Socialism in Central and Eastern Europe and Austro-Marxism,” Transform! Network, Vienna, Austria

Paper: “Sima Marković, The Austro-Marxist Who Wasn’t”
May 20-21, 2021

Conference “International conference 100 Years Since the Founding of the KSČ. The Legacy of Czechoslovak Communism,” Online, hosted by the Institute for the Study of Totalitarian Regimes, Prague, Czech Republic

Paper: “The Prophet Converted: Šmeral, the National Question, and the Communist Parties of the Balkans”
May 14-15, 2021

Conference “Socialist Political Thought in East Central Europe, 1889–1968: Concepts, Debates, Questions,” Online, hosted by Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Paper: “Revolutionary Conjuncture on the Periphery: Jenő Rozvány and ‘Leninism before Lenin’”
April 30-May 1, 2021

Conference “Yugoslav Communism in the Interwar Period: A Conference Marking the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ćopić,” University of Rijeka, Rijeka, Croatia

Paper: “Vladimir Ćopić, Tito’s Right-Hand Man That Never Was”
October 21-23, 2020

Workshop “Internationalism in the (long) Twentieth Century,” re:work Berlin, Germany

Paper: “The Nationalist Path to Internationalism: The Balkan Communist Federation and the United   Front Policy”
October 7-9, 2020

Conference “Ženski pokret Magazine (1920-1938),” Institute for Literature and Art, Belgrade, Serbia

Paper: “Communist Women and Yugoslavia: Female Participation in the Communist Ideological Struggles of the 1920s”
June 5-6, 2019

Conference “Cultural Memory of the Spanish Civil War,” University of Rijeka School of Humanities, Rijeka, Croatia

Paper: “Stories from My Grandfather: Myths and Misconceptions about Yugoslavs in the Spanish Civil War”
June 1-2, 2019

Conference “Contested Minorities in the „New Europe‟: National Identity from the Baltics to the Balkans, 1918-1939,” Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England

Paper: “Peasants in a Workers’ Party: Yugoslav Germans and the Labor Movement”
April 27, 2019

Conference “Reform or Revolution: The Centenary of the Murder of Rosa Luxemburg,” University of Zagreb School of Humanities, Zagreb, Croatia

Paper: “The Days that Failed to Shake the World: Yugoslavia and Lessons from the Revolutions of 1919”
July 18-20, 2018

Conference “Cosmopolitanism and (Post-) Imperial Space. German-speaking Networks in Eastern Europe (ca. 1850-1950),” Technical University Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Paper: “A Legacy Erased: Germans in the Yugoslav Communist Movement”
May 24-27, 2018

Conference “Workers beyond Socialist Glorification and Post-Socialist Disavowal: New Perspectives on Eastern European Labour History,” Institute for Economic and Social History, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Paper: “Model (Self-)Managers: A Comparative Analysis of Worker and Manager Biographies in a Yugoslav Factory Newspaper
May 10-11, 2018

Conference “The Yugoslav Laboratory of Political Innovation,” Science and Research Centre Koper, Institute of Historical Studies, Koper, Slovenia

Paper: “Retrospective Lessons: The Impact of Yugoslav Communist Emigres in Interwar Czechoslovakia on the Postwar Yugoslav State”
April 13-15, 2018

BASEES Annual Conference 2018, The British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Paper: “Surviving the Soviet Thermidor: Statistical Analysis of the Yugoslav Victims of the Great Purge, 1936-1939”
September 28-30, 2017

Conference “Socijalizam na klupi (Socialism on the Bench),” Centre for Cultural and Historical Research of Socialism at the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Croatia

Paper: “Death of the Old Communist Party of Yugoslavia: the Yugoslav Victims of the Great Purge, 1936-1939”
June 1-2, 2017

Conference “From Below and In Between – Narrating and Practicing the Cold War in South East Europe,” Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany

Paper: “Wretched of the Earth: The Impact of Socialist Yugoslavia on the Early Algerian State”
August 6-9, 2015

Undergraduate Conference  “Empire  and  Nation,”  Central  European  University  in Budapest, Hungary

Paper: “The Fight for Yugoslavia: Left-wing Nationalism of Yugoslav Student Émigrés in Prague”

ADDITIONAL ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES

  • Researcher at the Project “Classics of Yugoslav Communism” at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southeast Europe, March 2021–August 2022.
  • Peer reviewer of the journal Historical Materialism, since April 2021.
  • Organizer of the online conference “Yugoslav Communism in the Interwar Period: A Conference Marking the 130th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ćopić,” at the University of Rijeka, Croatia, April-May 2021
  • Co-organizer of the online workshop “Socialist Political Thought in East Central Europe, 1889–1968: Concepts, Debates, Questions” at Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, April-May 2021
  • Affiliate Member of the Research Network “Intellectual History in East Central Europe,” organized by scholars at Central European University (Budapest/Vienna) and the Charles University in Prague, since January 2021
  • Peer reviewer of the journal Philosophy and Society of the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory, Belgrade, since January 2021.
  • Co-organizer of the academic conference “Cultural Memory of the Spanish Civil War,” University of Rijeka School of Humanities, Rijeka, Croatia, 5th-6th June 2019
  • Research assistant for the book Brave New Hungary. Mapping the “System of National Cooperation”, eds. János M. Kovács and Balázs Trencsényi. Lanham: Rowman and Littlefield, 2019. (forthcoming)
  • Organizer and contributor to the student panel “Yugoslavism, 1918-2018: Experiences, Memories, Perspectives,” Central European University, Budapest, November 30, 2018
    Paper title: “Communist Yugoslavism before Socialist Yugoslavia: Marxist Responses to the National Question, 1914-1941”
  • Contributor to the “Project Jugoslawien: Aufstieg und Fall/Yugoslavia: Rise and Fall” of the Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Belgrade
    Author of the Article “Gründung des Königreichs der Serben, Kroaten und Slowenen” [“Creation of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes”]. Launched on November 29, 2018
  • Summer School of the University of Regensburg “The Liquid City: Adriatic Life-Worlds in Transformation,” Rijeka, September 16-22, 2018
  • Coordinator of the “Yugo-Region Research Group”, Department of History, Central European University, January 2017-June 2018
    Organizing and giving lectures, inviting guest lecturers, promoting the activities of the group on social networks, preparing film screenings
  • Masterclass “The Russian Revolution as History: Master Class in Historiography” with Professor Sheila Fitzpatrick, Central European University, Spring 2017
  • Masterclass “European  Postwar  Orders  1919-1991.  European  and  American  Perspectives”  with Professor Patrick Cohrs, Central European University, Spring 2017
  • Masterclass “Twentieth Century Historiography” with Professor William Eddleston, Anglo-American University, Fall 2015

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

  • BAYHOST Scholarship of the Free State of Bavaria, 2018-2021
    Monthly stipend of 835€
  • Winner of the 2018 International Research Competition of the Estonian Institute of Historical Memory, November 2018
    Awarded for the best master’s and doctoral dissertation; the master’s thesis was published as a book
  • The Hanák Prize of the History Department at the Central European University, June 2018
    Awarded for the best master’s thesis
  • Outstanding Academic Achievement award at the Central European University, June 2018
    Awarded to students with the highest GPA in their respective program; one-time award of 200€
  • Central European University’s Master’s Scholarship, 2016-2018
    Tuition Waiver and a monthly stipend of 160€
  • Best Paper Award at the Empire and Nation: Undergraduate Conference of the Central European University, August 2015
    For the paper “The Fight for Yugoslavia: Left-wing Nationalism of Yugoslav Student Émigrés in Prague,” published in The Annual of Medieval Studies at CEU, vol. 22 (2016).
  • Merit-based scholarship at the Anglo-American University, 2013-2016 Tuition Waiver, awarded to top students with a GPA over 3.9

WORK EXPERIENCE

May 2020 –

Faktograf.hr

Writer

Fact-checking historical forgeries and myths that appear in the media

January 2020 –

Bilten, regionalni portal

Writer

Writing about historical memory and historical revisionism in the Balkans

September 2018 – May 2019

Central European University Department of History, Budapest

Recruitment and Enrollment Assistant

Work on promotional activities aimed at increasing the number of new student applicants; assistance with the enrollment process for incoming students; editorial work on publications of the Department of History

October 2017

Le Monde Diplomatique, Serbian edition

Writer

Writing about the history of the Yugoslav labor movement

May 2016 –

Novi Plamen magazine

Writer

Writing about the history of the Yugoslav labor movement, Yugoslav Marxist thought, historical memory, and historical revisionism in the Balkans

August 2013 – June 2016

The Naked Tour Guide Prague

Travel guide

Creating and guiding tours on the history of the city of Prague

LANGUAGE SKILLS

English – C2 certificate

Italian – A2 certificate

Czech – Working Proficiency

Russian – Working Proficiency

Macedonian – Working Proficiency

Slovene – Working Proficiency

Bulgarian – Working Proficiency

Spanish – Limited Working Proficiency

German – Limited Working Proficiency

Serbo-Croatian – Native Proficiency