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

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