Jelena Golubović, PhD

I am a SSHRC Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University. In Fall 2023, I will be joining Northeastern University as an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs. My fieldwork-intensive research examines civil war, ethnic violence, and the politics of victimhood, with a regional focus on the former Yugoslavia. I am an interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD in anthropology, an MA in sociology, and a BA in international studies.

My research has been published in Journal of Refugee Studies, Anthropological Quarterly, Ethnicities, and American Ethnologist, and has received awards from ISA, ASA, ASN, CHA, and BASEES. I am currently working on a book manuscript, titled Zones of Violence: Serb Women inside the Siege of Sarajevo. It is based on my dissertation, which was awarded a Dean’s Convocation Medal. In my free time, I play the cello.

Download my CV here: Golubovic CV August 2022

NEWS

I received the 2023 Early Career Researcher Prize from the Journal of Refugee Studies
I received the 2022 Article Prize from the Canadian Historical Association’s Committee on Migration, Ethnicity and Transnationalism (CCMET)
I won the 2021 Best Article Award from the International Studies Association (ISA) section on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies (ENMISA)
I received the 2022 Postgraduate Article Prize from the British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES).
I was recently invited to give a talk at Northeastern University’s Sociology & Anthropology Department.
I received an Outstanding Graduating Student Award from The Canadian Anthropology Society.
My doctoral dissertation was awarded a Dean’s Convocation Medal from Simon Fraser University.
I received the 2021 Article Prize from the BASEES Women’s Forum.
I received an honourable mention for the 2021 Postgraduate Prize from BASEES.
I received the 2020 Best Article Award from the International Studies Association (ISA) section on Ethnicity, Nationalism, and Migration Studies (ENMISA).
My collaborator Sina Fazelpour and I were named as 1 of 10 winners of the 2020 Global Affairs Canada / SSHRC International Policy Ideas Challenge.
I received the Honourable Mention for the 2020 Outstanding Published Article Award from the American Sociological Association (ASA) section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict (PWSC)
My op-ed on the COVID-19 pandemic, the arms trade, and the human costs of war was published in The Ottawa Citizen. The Yemeni newspaper Al-Khabar Al-Yemeni reported on my op-ed.
My latest interview is up on the New Books Network. I am talking with political scientist Mila Dragojević about her new book, Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War.