Jovana Babović
Assistant Professor
Jovana Babović has been a member of the Geneseo faculty since 2018.
Professor Babović is a historian of modern transnational Europe. Her research focuses on urban culture and society in Eastern Europe during the twentieth century. You can find more information about Professor Babović’s work on her website.
Office Hours, Fall 2021
Mondays and Wednesdays 2:30-4pm.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Eastern Europe, the Balkans, urban history, popular culture, animal studies
Education
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA, Central European University
MA, New York University
BA, Smith College
Publications
Metropolitan Belgrade: Class and Culture in Interwar Yugoslavia, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
Sleater-Kinney’s Dig Me Out (33 1/3 Series), Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016
“National Capital, Transnational Culture: Foreign Entertainment in Interwar Belgrade,” East Central Europe 42.1 (2015): 104-122.
Classes
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HIST 453: Nationalism & Ethnic Violence
This course considers examines violence among ethnic communities in the era of the nation-state. The readings cover the theoretical development of ethnicity and nationalism as well as particular manifestations of ethnically-motivated violence ranging from isolated murders to genocide. Topics covered in class include blood libel murders, the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, and the Bosnian War massacres. The course emphasizes European and Russian history, but it also considers nationalism and ethnic violence through a global lens by introducing comparisons to other modern cases of ethnic violence.
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HONR 207: HonSem: Nostalgia
This seminar will provide students the opportunity to examine distinct, overlapping, and shared cultural identities, traditions, and experiences. Each seminar will explore a selected topic through the lens of at least two of the following: race, ethnicity, gender, class, sexual orientation, religion, and disability. Seminar topics may focus on national, international, and/or transnational issues. Typical titles might be: Gender, Culture, and International Development; Religion and Class in Northern Ireland; and African American Migration Narrative.