Jelena Tosic is Assistant Professor of Transcultural Studies at the University of St.Gallen and lecturer at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology (University of Vienna). Her research interests include: (Forced) Migration and Border Studies; Citizenship; Moral Economy/Inequality; Transculturality/Trans- nationalism; Education; Methods (Ethnography, Historical Anthropology/Memory, Comparative Research).
She gained her doctoral degree (University of Vienna) with an ethnography on socio-cultural transformations in post-socialist Serbia (LIT Verlag 2009). In her habilitation (University of Bern, 2020) she develops an ethnographic / historical anthropological perspective on borderlands in Southeast Europe through the lens of (forced) migration. Her current writings focus on: borderlands in Southeast Europe; (forced) migration, citizenship and moralizations of inequality; and anthropology of education. She is currently project leader in the Project "Europe's Un/Deserving: Moralizations of Inequality in Comparative Perspective" (2020-2024, funded by the SNSF) at the University of St.Gallen; Co-Convenor of the Regional Group Europe at the German Anthropological Association (DGSKA) and Series Co-Editor EASA Book Series, Berghahn (2020-2022/24).
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Contact: jelena.tosic@unisg.ch