EDUCATION
* Ph.D in Anthropology, 2004, Stanford University, USA (Rober Texture award for outstanding anthropological creativity)
* M.A in Anthropology, 1998, Stanford University, USA
* M.Phil in Social Anthropology, 1995, University of Cambridge, UK
* M.A in History, 1994, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
* B.A in Ethnology, 1992, University of Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia (the best student of the year award)
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DISTINCTIONS AND AWARDS
2009-2012
Management Committee Representative from Germany for the COST Action IS0803: Remaking Eastern Borders in Europe: a network exploring social, moral and material relocations of Europe’s Eastern Peripheries funded by the European Science Foundation.
2010 -2015
DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) grant to support a full research position at the Institute for Slavistics and the Department of South Slavic Languages and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
2004-2006
Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany.
2003
Robert Texture Award for Outstanding Anthropological Creativity, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
2002-2003
Geballe Dissertation Fellowship, Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, USA. (Awarded full tuition and living stipend to serve as a Humanities Fellow in residence).
2002-2003
Graduate Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
2002-2003
MacArhtur Consortium Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, USA.
2002 - 2003
Center for Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
2001 - 2002
Mellon Dissertation Write-Up Grant, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
2001
O’Bie Shultz Fellowship, Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Institute of International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
1999
NSF (National Science Foundation) Dissertation Fieldwork Research Grant for fieldwork conducted in Macedonia from June 1999 until January 2001.
1998
Mellon Department of Anthropology Summer Grant, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
1997
Mellon Summer Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, Stanford University and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies Summer Research Grant, Stanford University, Stanford, USA.
1996-2000
New Democracy Fellowship, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, USA (four year tuition and living stipend)
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TEACHING AND RESEARCH POSITIONS
2013-present
Associate Professor in Southeast European Studies, Slavic and East European Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium.
2010-2013
Senior Research Fellow (Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeitin), Institute for Slavic Studies, Department of South Slavic Languages and Cultures at Humboldt University, Berlin.
2006-2009
Research Fellow at theInstitute for East European Studies at the Free University, Berlin.
2009
Teaching Affiliate, Institute for East European Studies, Free University, Berlin.
2004-2006
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle/Saale, Germany.
2003
Teaching Affiliate, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University for the undergraduate lecture-style Course Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford, USA.
