Goldsmiths - University of London

Djokić, Dr Dejan

Dr Dejan Djokic is the Director of the Centre for the Study of the Balkans

Academic qualifications

BA History, SSEES, University of London, 1996
PhD History, University College London, 2004
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society

Teaching

BA Level 2/3
HT52101A/HT53101A Yugoslavia: History and Disintegration
HT52106A/HT53106A Nationalism, Democracy and Dictatorship in Twentieth Century Eastern Europe

MA
HT71122A Ethnic Conflict and Reconciliation in Modern Europe

Areas of supervision

I would welcome research proposals on modern and contemporary history of South Eastern Europe. Proposals for joint supervision (with colleagues at Goldsmiths or other University of London colleges) would be welcome also, on comparative topics that would include former Yugoslavia and the Balkans.

Research interests

My research interests lie in the field of modern history of the Balkans, in particular political, social and cultural history of former Yugoslavia. My wider interests include the rise and development of national ideologies in nineteenth-century Europe, democracy and dictatorship in interwar Europe, and Cold War history.

Previous posts and fellowships

Public Policy Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 2007
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Columbia University, New York, 2004
Lecturer in Serbian and Croatian Studies, University of Nottingham, 2003-2007
Lecturer in Contemporary History, School of History, Classics and Archaeology, Birkbeck College, University of London, 2002-2003
College Teacher, SSEES, University College London, 2001-2002

Editorial work

Member of the editorial board, European History Quarterly, 2003 -

Reviews editor, Journal of Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 2006-2009

Member if the Editorial Committee, Journal of the Balkan and Near Eastern Studies, 1999 - 2006, 2010 -

Member of the international editorial board, Politologický časopis (Czech Republic), 2006 -

Selected publications

Books and edited volumes

• Yugoslavia: A History (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, in preparation)
  
• New Perspectives on Yugoslavia: Key Issues and Controversies (London and New York: Routledge, 2010). Co-editor (with J. Ker-Lindsay)
• Nedostizni kompromis: Srpsko-hrvatsko pitanje u medjuratnoj Jugoslaviji (Belgrade: Fabrika knjiga, 2010; Serbo-Croat edition of Elusive Compromise)
  
• Nikola Pašić and Ante Trumbić: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes (London: Haus, 2010)
• Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia (New York: Columbia University Press and London: Hurst, 2007)
• Beyond the Curtain: Britain, the Labour Party and the Left in Cold War Europe (special issue, European History Quarterly, 36:3, 2006). Editor
• Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press and London: Hurst, 2003). Editor.

Articles in refereed journals

• 'Nationalism, Myth and Reinterpretation of History: The Negleted Case of Interwar Yugoslavia', European History Quarterly, forthcoming 2011.
  
• ‘Britain and Dissent in Tito’s Yugoslavia: The Djilas Affair, ca. 1956’, European History Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, July 2006, pp. 371-95
• 'Introduction', ibid., pp. 347-49
  
• ‘Nationalism, History and Identity in the Balkans’, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 81, no. 3, July 2003, pp. 511-24
• ‘The Second World War Two:Discourses ofReconciliation in Serbia and Croatia inthe late 1980s and early 1990s’, Journal of Southern Europe and the Balkans, vol. 4, no. 2, November 2002, pp. 127-40
• ‘Yugoslav anti-Axis Resistance, 1939-41: The Case of Vane Ivanović’, Slavonic and East European Review, vol. 79, no. 1, January 2001, pp. 127-41

Chapters in books and other contributions to collected works

• ‘”Leader” or “Devil”? The Ideology of Milan Stojadinović, the PrimeMinister of Yugoslavia (1935-39)’, in Rebecca Haynes (ed.), In Hitler’s Shadow: Personalities of the Right in East-Central Europe, forthcoming
• 'National Mobilisation in the 1930s: The "Serb Question" in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia', in Dejan Djokic and Jmaes Ker-Lindsay (eds), New Perspective on Yugoslavia: Key Questions and Controversies, London and New York: Routledge, 2010. (in press)
• 'Whose Myth? Which Nation? The Serbian Kosovo Myth Revisited', in Janos M. Bak et al. (eds), Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages: Nineteenth to Twenty First Century, Munich: Wilhelm Fink, 2009, pp. 215-233.
• 'Unconventional Emigres: Yugoslav Democrats in Britain during the Cold War', in Nicholas Hewitt and Dick Geary (eds), Diasporas: Movements and Cultures, Nottingham: CCC Press, 2007, pp. 114-122
  
• ‘Yugoslavia’, in John Merriman and Jay Winter (eds), Europe since 1914: The Age of War and Reconstruction, Detroit: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006, vol. 5, pp.2790-2805
• ‘Serbia in the Interwar Period (1918-1941)’, in Elizabeth Vyslonzil (ed.), Serbia in Europe: Neighbourhood Relations and EuropeanIntegration, Vienna: Österreichisches Ost- und Südosteuropa-Institut, 2006, pp. 15-19
• ‘Britanci i afera Djilas, 1956’, in Branko Popović (ed.), Djelo Milovana Djilasa, Podgorica: CANU, 2003, pp. 159-78
• ‘Yugoslavism: Histories, Myths, Concepts’, in Dejan Djokić (ed.), Yugoslavism: Histories of a Failed Idea, 1918-1992 (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press and London: Hurst, 2003), pp. 1-10
• ‘(Dis)integrating Yugoslavia: King Alexander and Interwar Yugoslavism’, in ibid, pp. 136-56

Other articles and essays

• 'Ratni zlocini i krivica za rat' [War Crimes and War Guilt at the Paris Peace Conference], Rec  (Belgrade), No. 79.25, September 2009, pp. 125-131.
  
• ‘Sukob sa Istorijom: Neka razmišljanja o odnosu prema prošlosti u post-socijalistickoj Srbiji’ [Conflict with History: Reflections on dealing with the past in post-socialist Serbia], Rec, No. 75.21, December 2007, pp. 41-60.
• ‘Coming to Terms with the Past: Former Yugoslavia, History Today, vol. 54, no. 6, June 2004, pp. 17-19
• 'Unutaretnicko pomirenje i nacionalna homogenizacija: Diskursi o pomirenju u Srbiji i Hrvatskoj krajem 80-ih i pocetkom 90-ih' [Intra-ethnic reconciliation and national homogenisation: Discourses on reconciliation in Serbia and Croatia in the late 1980s and early 1990s, Rec, no. 70, June 2003, pp. 109-26.
  
• ‘“After One Hundred Years”: The Yugoslav Idea in Historical Perspective’, Historically Speaking (The Bulletin of The Historical Society, Boston, MA), vol. 5, no. 2, November 2003, pp. 18-21

Book reviews

• Livanios, Dimitris, The Macedonian Question: Britain and the Southern Balkans, 1939-1949 (2008), Anglo-Hellenic Review, no. 41, Spring 2010.
  
• Sabrina Ramet, The Three Yugoslavias: State-Building and Legitimation, 1918-2005 (2006), American Historical Review, vol. 113, no. 2, April 2008
• Pål Kolstø (ed.), Myths and Boundaries in South Eastern Europe (2005), Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions, vol. 9, Issue 1, 2008
• Naimark, Norman and Holly Case (eds.), Yugoslavia and its Historians: Understanding the Balkan Wars of the 1990s (2003), European History Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, July 2006
• Todorova, Maria (ed.), Balkan Identity: Nation and Memory (2004), Anglo-Hellenic Review, no. 31, Spring 2005
• Crampton, R. J., The Balkans since the Second World War (2002), English Historical Review, vol. 118, no. 477, June 2003

Selected recent conference and seminar papers

• 'Was the Disintegration of Yugoslavia Inevitable? A Historian's View', paper presented at the Ex uno plures: Post-Yugoslav cultural spaces and Europe conference, Columbia University, New York,26-27 March 2010.
• 'Myth, nation and some history, too: Who still remembers interwar Yugoslavia?', SEESOX seminar, St Anthony's, Oxford, 1 March 2010.
• '(De-)Balkanizing the Balkans in the aftermath of the First World War', History Research Seminar, Birbeck, University of London, 3 December 2009.
• 'Friends and Principles: Labour, Tory and the Djilas-Tito Split', paper presented at Britain and the Cold War conference, Centre for Contemporary British History, University of London, 22 June 2009.
  
• Participant in a panel discussion about D. Djokic, Elusive Compromise: A History of Interwar Yugoslavia (2007), ASN, Columbia University, New York, 24 April 2009
• ‘The End of the Great War in the Balkans: The Legacies and Reflections, Ninety Years On’, Goldsmiths, University of London, 10 December 2008
• ‘Was (Interwar) Yugoslavia Possible?’, presented at Creation, Evolution, Dissolution: New Research on Yugoslavia, 1918-2008 conference, Goldsmiths, University of London, 9 May 2008
• Presentations on Serbian national identity/identities at two round table discussions at Columbia University, 7 April 2008, and Rutgers University, 8 April 2008
• Discussant and convener of panel ‘Aftermath of Empire: Christians and Muslims in the post-Ottoman Balkans’, annual convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), Columbia University, New York, 12-14 April 2007
• ‘Post-Yugoslavism and Reconciliation in former-Yugoslavia’, paper presented at the conference Balkan Reconciliation and EU Integration An Inextricably Linked Relationship?, Kingston University, 16 February 2007.
• ‘Yugoslav Nationalisms’, paper presented at the conference Balcanes: La Herida Abierta de Europa. Conflicto y reconstrucción de la convivencia, University of Granada, 16-20 October 2006
• ‘The Yugoslav post-1945 Diaspora in the UK’, paper presented at a three-day conference on Diaspora(s), University of Queensland, Brisbane, 17-19 July 2006
• ‘Milan Stojadinović (1888-1961): The ideology and career of an interwar politician’, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London, 15 March 2006
• ‘Sex, Lies and Two Letters: The British and the Djilas Affair, 1956’, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 2 February 2006
• ‘Whose Myth? Which Nation? The Kosovo Myth Reassessed’, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 22 April 2005
• ‘Rethinking the Nation in the 1930s: The Yugoslav Case’, ASN annual convention, Columbia University, 14-16 April 2005
• ‘(Mis)use of Medieval Myths in the Modern Balkans: The Case of the Serbian Kosovo Myth ’, paper presented at the conference Uses and Abuses of the Middle Ages: 19th-21st Century, Central European University, Budapest, 30 March - 2 April 2005
• ‘Reimaging Yugoslavia’, Department of History and Centre for Comparative European Studies, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 21 April 2004.
• ‘Four Weddings and Two Funerals: The Serb-Croat Relations in Interwar Yugoslavia’, Harriman Institute, Columbia University, 14 April 2004
• ‘Richard Evans and his Post-Modern Critics: An Overview of a Debate among British Historians’, Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, 18 February 2002
• ‘The Role and Responsibility of the Historian of the Present’, Historians of the Future workshop, Alternative Academic Education Network, Belgrade, 19 November 2001

Professional activities

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• Member of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN), British Association for Slavonic and East European Studies (BASEES), and external member of the advisory board of the Vane Ivanović Collection, Kingston University.

Television and video output

Regular commentator on contemporary events in former Yugoslavia for UK and international media, including Sky News, BBC Radio, ABC National Radio (Sydney), etc. (full details available on request).

Dr Djokic has written articles for other media, including the New Statesman, Guardian, Independent, Danas (Belgrade), THES, openDemocracy and Pescanik.net (Belgrade).