General Dragoljub Mihailovic's Chetnik movement has been the subject of historical studies for more than half a century. Most have focused on the Chetnik- Partisan war and the issues of Chetnik resistance to and collaboration with the Axis powers. This study expands on the exist…
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This study examines the artistic aspects of relic culture from the Early Christian to late Medieval period, focusing on the imagery from Dalmatia, Venice and the Veneto regions in order to provide an enhanced understanding of the pervasive artistic force of relic cults during th…
During World War II, the Croatian ultra-nationalist Ustaša persecuted nearly two million Serbs, Jews, and Roma in the Independent State of Croatia, a state that included present-day Croatia and Bosnia-Hercegovina. The Ustaša-run Jasenovac concentration camp became a lasting symb…
This study seeks to examine the influence of patriarchal forces, at both the local and global level, that have historically resulted in the lack of recognition of gender-specific crimes committed during and after armed conflict. By incorporating the testimonies of Bosnian, Croat…
This thesis is concerned with the intentional destruction of landscapes of identity during warfare and their post-war reconstruction. The concepts in this project are situated within the context of the geography of place and within the constructs of the notion of landscape as a …
I examine the hypothesis that environmental changes associated with the last deglaciation led to the adoption of more diverse and intensive subsistence strategies by Paleolithic hunter-gatherers in southeastern Europe. The rapid climatic warming of the Bolling/Allerod interstadi…
This dissertation explores the link between Catholicism and the contemporary identities of Bosnian Croats, Croatian Croats, and Slovenes. I ask why and how religion, specifically Catholicism, has remained an important public institution in some but not in all studied societies, …
This dissertation is a discussion of several approaches to obtain Bakan unity or collaboration, attempted by some Balkan statesmen during the interwar years of 1919–1939 to lessen Great Power influence and promote cooperation there. Austro-Hungarian, Ottoman, and Russian empires…
This study examines the role of literature and history in the construction of postcolonial cultural identities in two African and two European societies. I examine in detail the works of one writer from each of these societies. Nuruddin Farah is a Somali writer who explores his …
The subject of this thesis is the provision of shelter for refugees and displaced persons in a war-tom, developed nation with a cold climate. It aims to develop a set of working recommendations that can be utilised by implementing agencies in the field to provide improved shelte…
This thesis examines how madness has been used in post-Yugoslav cinemas to facilitate thinking about experiences of the break-up of the SFRY throughout the 1990s and 2000s, its consequences and implications for the future. The study conceptualises post-Yugoslav film cultures as …
This thesis looks at the evolution of the collective memory and its influence on the behaviour of the federal government, the political elites and the public opinion in Germany between 1989 and 1999. The research is based on five case studies: the Gulf War, the independence of C…
Recently, ethnicity has received greater attention from international conflict scholars. This study explores a new aspect of how ethnic composition of states and the power of ethnic kin affect external state interventions in ethnic conflicts. Here it is hypothesized that states …
In this dissertation I explore the effects of domestic and international pressures on human rights accountability in states undergoing profound political transformations. My work is rooted in theories of democratization and transitional justice (those legal responses to a former…
This dissertation tells the story of Sarajevo during the Second World War. Beginning with a sketch of the city on the eve of war—when Muslims, Catholics, Orthodox Serbs, and Jews lived and worked together—it traces how these communities interacted with one another through variou…
This dissertation addresses the question of how individuals come to possess and understand their identities. Specifically, it focuses on the role of public institutions of education in individual-level identity formation in two Yugoslav successor states: Bosnia-Herzegovina (B-H)…
This dissertation examines the emergence of norms and the process through which these influence state behaviour. State identity conceptualized in ethnic or civic terms, shapes state preferences concerning the recognition of new states. Hence, the ethnic or civic identity of Germ…
In August 2014, I took my first trip to Croatia, the country of my paternal ancestors. navigating family in an unfamiliar place is an installation of photographs and video documentation from the trip. The footage highlights some of the family that I discovered in the village wit…
In the aftermath of the break-up of the former Yugoslavia, the new Western Balkans states have found themselves in transition from socialist regimes to capitalist economy and representative democracy. European Union membership has became virtually synonymous with this transition…