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Research interests
- Thirteenth-Century Byzantine Asia Minor
- Byzantine Social History
- Greek and Latin Philology
- Classical Reception in the Medieval World
- Socio-cultural history of the Greco-Roman world
- Perception of Antiquity and Byzantium after 1453
Education
- PhD, History, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ
- MA, Classics (Byzantine Philology), University of Belgrade
- BA (honours), Classics, Univeristy of Belgrade
Biography
I obtained my BA and MA degrees in Byzantine Philology from the Department of Classics at the University of Belgrade, Serbia and I hold a PhD degree focusing on Byzantine history of the Laskarid period from Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ in Vancouver, Canada.
Publications
Journal articles and book chapters
- “Imagining the Communities of Others: The Case of the Seljuk Turks.� Byzantina Symmeikta 28 (2018): TBA.
- “Opis i imenovanje Turaka u Istoriji Gerogija Akropolita.� Zbornik Matice Srpske za klasi�ne studije 15 (2013): 189–209. [“Naming and Describing the Turks in The History by Georgios Akropolites.� Journal of Classical Studies Matica Srpska 15 (2013): 189–209.]
Conference presentations
- “Constructions of Distinct Identity in Lusignan Cyprus.� 25th Biennial Symposium of Modern Greek Studies Association. Stockton University. Galloway (New Jersey, USA). November 2017.
- “Ioannes III Vatatzes’s Italian Venture: Imperial Agency in the Time of Decline.� 43rd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. University of Minnesota. Minneapolis (Minnesota, USA). October 2017.
- “By Deeds and Not Fiction: Courting the Public with Public Infrastructure in Laskarid Asia Minor.â€� Collectivities, Individuals, Identity, and the Polity: Imagining the Commons in Late Antiquity and Byzantium. Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ. Vancouver (BC, Canada). February 2017.
- “The Good, the Bad, the Ugly: De-legitimization of the Laskarid Dynasty in George Akropolites’s The History.� 42nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Cornell University. Ithaca (New York, USA). October 2016.
- “Imagined Communities in Middle and Late Byzantine Historiography: The Case of the Seljuk Turks.â€� Second Annual Western Consortium for Hellenic Studies Graduate Student Conference. Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ. Vancouver (BC, Canada). April 2016.
- “Turks or New Persians? Seljuk Turkish Identity in Byzantine Historiography.� 41st Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Columbia, Fordham, CUNY. New York City (New York, USA). October 2015.
- “Orientalizing Byzantium: Perceptions of the Byzantine Empire in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Western European Historical Narratives.� 24th Biennial Symposium of the Modern Greek Studies Association. Georgia State University. Atlanta (Georgia, USA). October 2015.
- “Conceptions of Byzantium in the Works of Lord Byron and John Cam Hobhouse.� The 10th International Student Byron Conference. The Messolonghi Byron Society. Messolonghi (Greece). May 2015.
- “Seljuk Turks: The Contemporaneous Persians––Usage of the Classical Ethnonym Persians in George Akropolites’s History.� Inaugural Annual Western Consortium for Hellenic Studies Graduate Student Conference. University of California San. San Diego (California, USA). April 2015.
- “Praise of a Teacher or Periautology?: Theodore II Laskaris’ Self-Representation in the Encomium of George Akropolites.â€� 40th Annual Byzantine Studies Conference. Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµ. Vancouver (BC, Canada). November 2014.
- “Slavs in the Commonwealth of George Akropolites.� International Scientific Symposium: Macedonia and the Balkans in the Byzantine Commonwealth. Euro-Balkan University. Skopje (Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia). October 2013.
Select awards
- 2017, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµTravel Grant
- 2017, SNF Centre for Hellenic Studies Travel Grant
- 2016, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµTravel Grant
- 2016, Graduate Fellowship
- 2015, Âé¶¹ÊÓÆµTravel Grant
- 2015, Modern Greek Studies Association Grant
- 2015, A.G. Leventis Foundation Scholarship for the Medieval Greek Summer Session at the Gennadius Library
- 2015, The Messolonghi Byron Society Travel Grant
- 2014â€Ëð°ù±ð²õ±ð²Ô³Ù, C.D. Nelson Memorial Graduate Entrance Scholarship
- 2014â€Ëð°ù±ð²õ±ð²Ô³Ù, Provost Prize of Distinction (PPD)
- 2014, Graduate Fellowship (Stavros Niarchos Foundation Centre for Hellenic Studies)