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# CURRICULUM VITÆ
<p style="text-align: center;">jovanovic at history dot ucla dot edu</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href=cv.pdf>download CV as pdf</a>
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## 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**

"What's off-centre of empire? Introduction to the special issue
(co-authored with Giulia Carabelli)"  
_Cultural Studies_  
Online-first, forthcoming in print 2020

**2020**

"Laudon's Garden: Habsburg Legacy and the Warped Space of Empire"  
_History of the Present_  
Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 28-45

**2020**

"Introduction to the Special Section Empire Off-Center (co-authored with
Giulia Carabelli)"  
_History of the Present_  
Vol. 10, Issue 1, pp. 5-8

**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_