I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology and International Affairs at Northeastern University. Before joining Northeastern, I was a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow at The Fletcher School of Global Affairs at Tufts University. 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, AAA, ASA, ASN, CHA, and BASEES.
My first book, The Inner Zone: Victimhood and Retribution inside the Siege of Sarajevo is under contract with The University of Pennsylvania Press. It is based on my dissertation, which was awarded a Dean’s Convocation Medal from Simon Fraser University.
NEWS
- I joined the Research Cluster on Identity Politics at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
- I am a 2024–2025 Faculty Fellow at The Humanities Center at Northeastern University, working on the theme of “Erasure”
- I recently gave a talk at York University’s “Unsettling Anthropology” speaker series.
- I spoke to Northeastern Global News about the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh.
- My co-authors and I received the 2023 honorable mention for the GAD Prize for Exemplary Cross-Field Scholarship
- 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 2022 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 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)
Jelena Golubović, PhD 