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