FEDJA BURIC
(BOSNIAN & UNITED STATES) Fedja defended his Ph.D. in history at the University of Illinois, UrbanaChampaign in August 2011. His main research interests include the formation of national identity, in particular the role of mixed marriages in such processes, the role of religion in the emergence of secular nationhood, and the use of autobiography in the study of history. Upon the completion of the Max Weber fellowship, Fedja will take up the position of Assistant Professor of History at Bellarmine University in Louisville, KY in the United States.
Email: fedja.buric@eui.eu EUI Affiliation: Department of History and Civilization EUI Mentor: Pavel Kolar
ACTIVITIES DURING MAX WEBER FELLOWSHIP BOOKS Manuscript completed, Becoming Mixed: Mixed Marriages of Bosnia-Herzegovina during the Life and Death of Yugoslavia. (Searching for a publisher) PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS ‘The Seductive Power of Nationalism: Bosnian Anxieties towards Mixed Marriage in the Twentieth Century.’ (Under review) MWP WORKING PAPER Pragmatic Conversions: Mixed Marriage and the Flexibility of Shari’a in Interwar Yugoslavia. Seminar Presentations Bringing Islam Back to Europe. Nations and Nationalism: Old and New Approaches, seminar, European University Institute, Florence. OTHER ACADEMIC ACTIVITIES/ACHIEVEMENTS Co-Instructor, ‘Nations and Nationalism: Old and New Approaches’, seminar, Spring 2012. European University Institute, Florence. Archival Research at the Archive of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Serbia (April, 2012). Tenure track position, starting in Fall 2012, Assistant Professor of History, Bellarmine University, Louisville, KY, USA.
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