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<h1>CURRICULUM VITÆ</h1>
<p style="text-align: center;">jovanovic at history dot ucla dot edu</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="cv/cv.pdf">download CV as pdf</a>
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<h2>Research interests</h2>
<p><em>urban history, materiality, visual methods, capitalism, socialism,
Eastern Europe, Habsburg empire, Ottoman empire, Balkans</em></p>
<h2>Education</h2>
<p><strong>2016</strong> <strong>Ph.D. in History</strong><br />
<em>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</em><br />
Urbana, IL (USA)</p>
<p><strong>2008</strong> <strong>M.A. in History</strong><br />
<em>Central European University</em><br />
Budapest (Hungary)</p>
<p><strong>2007</strong> <strong>B.A. in History and International Affairs</strong><br />
<em>Lafayette College</em><br />
Easton, PA (USA)</p>
<h2>Professional Experience</h2>
<p><strong>2019-</strong> <strong>Assistant Professor of History</strong><br />
<em>University of California, Los Angeles</em><br />
Los Angeles, CA </p>
<p><strong>2016-19</strong> <strong>Research Associate, Empires of Memory MPI Research Group</strong><br />
<em>Max Planck Institute for the Study of Ethnic and Religious Diversity</em><br />
Göttingen </p>
<p><strong>2015-16</strong> <strong>Instructor (Urban History)</strong><br />
<em>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</em><br />
Urbana, IL </p>
<p><strong>2011-12</strong> <strong>Instructor (Global Studies)</strong><br />
<em>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</em><br />
Urbana, IL </p>
<p><strong>2010-12</strong> <strong>Teaching Assistant (Western Civilization)</strong><br />
<em>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</em><br />
Urbana, IL </p>
<h2>Publications</h2>
<p><strong>2020</strong></p>
<p>"Laudon's Garden: Habsburg Legacy and the Warped Space of Empire"<br />
<em>History of the Present</em><br />
Vol. 10, Issue 1, forthcoming</p>
<p><strong>2020</strong></p>
<p>"Introduction to the Special Section Empire Off-Center (co-authored with
Giulia Carabelli)"<br />
<em>History of the Present</em><br />
Vol. 10, Issue 1, forthcoming</p>
<p><strong>2020</strong></p>
<p>"Sharpening the Haze: Visual Essays on Imperial History and Memory"<br />
<em>London: Ubiquity Press</em><br />
co-edited with Giulia Carabelli, Annika Kirbis and Jeremy F. Walton</p>
<p><strong>2019</strong></p>
<p>"Whitewashed Empire: Historical Narrative and Place Marketing in Vienna"<br />
<em>History & Anthropology</em><br />
Vol. 30, No . 4, pp. 460-476</p>
<p><strong>2018</strong></p>
<p>"Bourgeois Worlds and Urban Nightmares: The post-Ottoman Balkan City
through the Lens of Milutin Uskoković's Newcomers"<br />
<em>Urban Cultural Studies</em><br />
No. 5 Vol. 2, pp. 187-206</p>
<p><strong>2013</strong></p>
<p>"The City in Our Hands: Urban Management and Contested Modernity in
Nineteenth Century Belgrade"<br />
<em>Urban History</em><br />
Vol. 40 No. 1 pp. 32-50</p>
<p><strong>2009</strong></p>
<p>"Taming the Tavern: Social Space and Government Regulation in 19th
Century Belgrade"<br />
<em>Godišnjak za društvenu istoriju - Annual for Social History</em><br />
Year XVI Vol. 3 pp. 57-68</p>
<h2>Awards, Grants and Fellowships</h2>
<p><strong>2015</strong>
Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities<br />
Graduate Fellow </p>
<p><strong>2013</strong>
Social Science Research Council<br />
International Dissertation Research Fellowship </p>
<p><strong>2013</strong>
American Research Center in Sofia<br />
Research Fellow </p>
<p><strong>2012</strong>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br />
Mary Jane Luecker Graduate Fellow </p>
<p><strong>2010</strong>
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign<br />
Summer Dissertation Proposal Grant </p>
<p><strong>2008</strong>
European University Institute<br />
Marc Bloch Prize in Early Modern and Modern European History </p>
<p><strong>2008</strong>
Central European University<br />
Academic Pro-Rectors Excellence Award </p>
<h2>Presentations and Lectures</h2>
<p><strong>2019</strong>
Waterfront: a post-Ottoman post-socialist story<br />
Screening and discussion, Institute of Geography and Sustainability,
University of Lausanne </p>
<p><strong>2019</strong>
Waterfront: a post-Ottoman post-socialist story<br />
Screening and Roundtable, Center for Policy Studies and CEU Yugo-Region
Research Group, Central European University, Budapest </p>
<p><strong>2019</strong>
Refractive Nostalgia: Ottoman Urban Space and Memory in Belgrade and
Sofia, 1850-1939<br />
Liberalism and its Critics Workshop, Lichtenberg Kolleg, Göttingen </p>
<p><strong>2018</strong>
The History of Property & Housing in Belgrade and Sofia<br />
Urbanize! Conference, dérive - Zeitschrift für Stadtforschung, Berlin </p>
<p><strong>2018</strong>
Nostalgic Refractions: Photography, Image and Memory in the post-Ottoman
Balkan City<br />
European Association for Urban History Conference, Rome </p>
<p><strong>2017</strong>
Bourgeois World-Building in the Balkan City<br />
Urban World-Making Conference, ASCA City Project, University of
Amsterdam </p>
<p><strong>2017</strong>
Whitewashed Empire: Historical Narrative and Place Marketing in Vienna<br />
Association for the Study of Nationalities Conference, New York </p>
<p><strong>2016</strong>
Excavating the archive: Non-normative histories and heterodox linkages
in the Balkan city<br />
Thinking Gender and Sexuality After Empire and Socialism Workshop, MPI
Göttingen </p>
<p><strong>2015</strong>
Cities of Dust and Mud: Loss and Dispossession in Belgrade and Sofia
(1830-1912)<br />
Places of Amnesia, CRASSH, University of Cambridge </p>
<p><strong>2015</strong>
Modernizing Belgrade and Sofia: The Experience of Reconstruction in the
Balkans (1830-1912)<br />
Institut d'ethnologie méditerranéenne, européenne et comparative.
Aix-en-Provence </p>
<p><strong>2012</strong>
Empire, military and modern urbanism in Habsburg Sarajevo and Russian
Sofia (1878-9)<br />
European Association for Urban History Conference, Prague </p>
<p><strong>2012</strong>
The lifeworlds of masons and butchers in the City Beautiful<br />
European Society for the History of Human Sciences Conference, Belgrade </p>
<p><strong>2011</strong>
The Military City: Emergence of modern urbanism in Sarajevo and Sofia,
1878-79<br />
Midwest Historians of East Central Europe Workshop </p>
<p><strong>2008</strong>
Urban Reconstruction in Late Ottoman Belgrade: De-Ottomanization and
Questioning Cosmopolitanism<br />
Living Together: Plurality and Cosmopolitanism in the Ottoman Empire and
Beyond Summer Academy, Istanbul </p>
<h2>Community Activities</h2>
<p><strong>2014</strong></p>
<p>Urban Agriculture and Political Ecology -- A Historical Perspective<br />
Petnica Science Center, Valjevo </p>
<p><strong>2013</strong></p>
<p>Urban and/or Bourgeois History? The Study of Balkan City Life as
Critique<br />
Social Center Haspel, Sofia </p>
<p><strong>2012</strong></p>
<p>Intro to Urban Studies - Weeklong public course employing self-education
and critical pedagogy methods<br />
Kabinet Social Center, Belgrade </p>
<p><strong>2011</strong></p>
<p>Belgrade Chronicle Television Interview by Nataša Ristić<br />
Radio Television of Serbia, Channel 1 </p>
<p><strong>2011</strong></p>
<p>Teheran in My Vehicle: Historical Memory, Urban Development and
Socially-Responsible Public Transportation<br />
Mikser Public Festival, Belgrade </p>
<p><strong>2011</strong></p>
<p>Open Urbanism Manifesto, author<br />
Imamo Plan activist group, Belgrade </p>
<h2>Languages</h2>
<p>Bosnian-Serbian-Croatian-Montenegrin
<em>native</em></p>
<p>Bulgarian
<em>fluent</em></p>
<p>German
<em>research</em></p>
<p>Spanish
<em>research</em></p>
<p>Italian
<em>research</em></p>
<p>Russian
<em>can read with dictionary</em></p>
<p>Turkish
<em>can read with dictionary</em></p>