Jovana Babovi膰 has been a member of the 黑料传送门 faculty since 2018.
Professor Babovi膰 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 Babovi膰鈥檚 work on her
Office Hours, Fall 2025
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:30am-12pm.
Curriculum Vitae
Research Interests
Eastern Europe, the Balkans, urban history, popular culture, oral history
Education
PhD, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
MA, Central European University
MA, New York University
BA, Smith College
Publications
The Youngest Yugoslavs: An Oral History of Post-Socialist Memory, Indiana University Press, 2025
Metropolitan Belgrade: Class and Culture in Interwar Yugoslavia, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018
Sleater-Kinney鈥檚 Dig Me Out (33 1/3 Series), Bloomsbury Academic Press, 2016
鈥淣ational Capital, Transnational Culture: Foreign Entertainment in Interwar Belgrade,鈥 East Central Europe 42.1 (2015): 104-122.
Classes
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HIST 240: Top: Surviving Disaster in 20c
A study of a particular topic in European history. Topics could be defined by time, space, or theme. Early modern Europe, the Mediterranean world, and imperialism are possible topics areas that might be offered.
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HIST 455: War & Peace in Balkans
This course examines the history of the Balkans region in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, with a focus on moments of conflict as well as those of peaceful coexistence. Covered themes include everyday life under the Ottoman Empire, national liberation movements, the Balkan Wars, urbanization, eugenics, the First and Second World Wars, communism, youth culture, and the Yugoslav Wars. The course also considers orientalizing Western narratives about the Balkans and how they have shaped the writing of the region鈥檚 history.