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.

My first book, Zones of Violence: Impure Victims 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.

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.