The Balkans, Past & Present
Scholars and writers on the past & present of southeastern Europe (from Ottoman, Russian, Habsburg legacies thru post/socialism and contemporary culture, politics, and IR)
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@edinh.bsky.social
@ledenik.bsky.social
Justice, dehumanisation and strategic communications. Autor romana "Polaroid kauboj" i filma "Istraga 710399".
@edokanlic.bsky.social
žali se Transparensiju! BiH | EU integration | democracy | rule of law | human rights
@nicolecorritore.bsky.social
Journalist, giornalista, novinarka, Balkans, Balcani, Balkan, human rights, diritti umani, ljudska prava - www.balcanicaucaso.org
@ifcbih.bsky.social
Visiting Researcher at Johns Hopkins SAIS, International Strategy Forum 2024 Fellow, PhD at IUS Sarajevo. Former Advisor to Minister of Security BiH. Opinions and views are of my own. www.ifcancar.com
@blenormand.bsky.social
Historian of Yugoslavia in global context. Urban Planning, migration, maritime transportation. Believer in speaking out for/amplifying the silenced. she/her.
@miokapor.bsky.social
No Immunity from Accountability (Monitor odgovornosti) mission is to comprehensively identify and analyze government-organized non-governmental organizations (GONGOs), promoters of illiberal democracy in the Western Balkans. Website: https://nifainfo.org/
@valeryperry.bsky.social
Thinking about accountable governance, the flavors of state capture being innovated & how people can learn the good from each other & not just the bad… an unexpected life journey from Buffalo to Sarajevo....my dog keeps me human...
@ruthferrero.bsky.social
Madre.@CCPPySOCUCM aprendo, escribo, reflexiono @publico_es @rne @infolibre ahora en @mas_demo Telegram: http://t.me/ruthferrero
@ilirianagjoni.bsky.social
Analyst @ Carnegie Europe | EU enlargement and Western Balkans | Concert Pianist @ world
@depettigrew.bsky.social
@miguelroan.bsky.social
Director de Balcanismos y autor de "Maratón balcánico", "Balcanismos" y "Belgrado brut". www.miguelroan.com
@anothermilorad.bsky.social
Go forth and explore the mundane! Also queer anthropology, northeast Mediterranean, mobilities, and research ethics. PI:Dinarkvir #MSCA and PM:OrthPol #ERC Both at IHB OeAW, Vienna, Austria
@nedadmemic.bsky.social
Germanist • Kommunikationsmanager • Geboren und aufgewachsen in Sarajevo; lebe in Wien • Mitteleuropa-, Balkan- und Mittelmeer-Aficionado • Poste vorwiegend auf Deutsch, aber auch auf Englisch, Bosnisch oder Spanisch • Privater Account
@tjasafeher.bsky.social
EU Advocacy Manager @eucrta.bsky.social | Bridging the EU bubble and South-eastern Europe to advance democracy | Personal 💭 on all things 🇪🇺 and of course 🇸🇮🇧🇦🇭🇷🇷🇸. Also 🇭🇺 and 🇺🇸
@hanach.bsky.social
Anthropology - memory culture, war, visual arts PhD @ Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, Univeristy of Zürich Researcher @ Institute for European Ethnology, HU Berlin Still doing Sve su to vještice on the side
@editamiftari.bsky.social
Women, Peace and Security Programme Specialist at UN Women 🇺🇳🇧🇦 Security and Gender Studies, Fulbrighter, based in Sarajevo. Mainstreaming gender into life, the universe and everything. Views my own.
@petramatic.bsky.social
Balkan girl uncovering Non-Aligned histories. Dreamer and doer in a world where the funding is the curator. Educated by ruangrupa, New Art School Modality, Bureau d'Études, and BLOK. 2024 fellow of TheMuseumsLab and Global Cultural Relations.
@valisandulescu.bsky.social
Historian; Assistant Professor, University of Bucharest. PhD in History @CEU Budapest. 🎓 History & historiography of fascism and antisemitism/history of the Jewish community in Romania. 🗃 https://unibuc.academia.edu/ValentinSandulescu
@kefendic.bsky.social
Editor. Translator. Strategic Communications Consultant. Sarajevo.
@hogicn.bsky.social
@hariz-h.bsky.social
From the Drina River to the Tasman Sea. O duljini i ne sanjaj... Professor of Global Studies | author “Places of Pain” 🏆| RMIT University|
@selmajahic.bsky.social
Überlebende des Völkermords in Srebrenica | Zeitzeugin | Teile hier meine persönliche Geschichte und Meinung zu unterschiedlichen Themen | she/her
@rodolfotoe.bsky.social
Italian journalist writing about foreign affairs @Il Post; covering the Western Balkans @Economist Intelligence Unit. Formerly a political analyst for the OSCE Mission to Bosnia and Herzegovina, previously @Le Courrier des Balkans and BIRN.
@edinmujkic.bsky.social
US National Security, Foreign Policy, IR, Democracy, the Balkans. Public Administration Department Chair and Associate Professor at the College of Public Service at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs. Posts are my opinion, not UCCS!
@historyofcommunism.bsky.social
History of Communism publishes documents, visuals and studies of and about communist movements and events with the aim of stimulating and supporting academic research on communism.
@freyacumberlidge.bsky.social
Training Development - Austrian Agency for Research Integrity| Member - South/South Movement
@kurtbassuener.bsky.social
Co-Founder and Senior Associate @DPC_global.bluesky.social; former Fulbrighter - PhD at St. Andrews; Angry Optimist
@cosovschi.bsky.social
Historian of Southeast Europe and the global Cold War. Postdoctoral researcher at the École française d'Athènes. Editor at the Programming Historian. Language nerd. 📍Athens/Paris https://acosovschi.com/
@drmehmetyavuz.bsky.social
Assistant Professor @ K-State | PhD @umanitoba.bsky.social | Peace and Conflict Studies | Balkans | Middle East | Queer Studies | Transitional Justice |Activism| 🇧🇦🇨🇾🇹🇷🏳️🌈🧿| Opinions are my own| 📍Manhattan, KS
@nickdamjanovic.bsky.social
History Professor (SE Europe, Serbia, Refugees, Nationalism). The Nonconformists: Culture, Politics, and Nationalism in a Serbian Intellectual Circle (2007); Between Nation and State (1987)
@mtthboisdron.bsky.social
🇫🇷🇪🇺🇭🇺🇷🇴 Docteur en histoire (Sorbonne Université) | XXe s. | Histoire politique | Histoire des relations internationales | Histoire de l’Europe médiane | 📚➡️ https://cv.hal.science/matthieu-boisdron
@guydelauney.bsky.social
Balkans Correspondent 📹 BBC News, 🖋️ Monocle Presenter 🎙 Monocle Radio Moderator ⚖ at large
@enaselimo.bsky.social
translator | writer | editor | co-founder of Turkoslavia Collective | Yugoslav | NEA translation fellow | doctorate in comparative literature | ig@yugaduga | www.turkoslavia.com
@ericgordy.bsky.social
All about: sociology, Balkans, good cooking, jazz, dogs. No patience for: racists, nationalists, sexists, creeps, bad methodology. “East of Ethnia” blog -- politics, sociology, and culture from the Balkans and other places: https://ericgordy.substack.com/
@jasminmuj.bsky.social
Political Scientist, PhD. Author of "Hunger and Fury: The Crisis of Democracy in the Balkans" (2018) and "The Bosniaks: Nationhood After Genocide" (2023), both available via Hurst and OUP. 📍 LAX via SJJ. 🌐 www.jasminmujanovic.com
@orelb.bsky.social
Historian of modern Europe in its Eurasian context. Education, youth, social structure, and family life. Comparative and transnational history. PhD, Yale; currently a postdoc fellow at the Polonsky Academy.
@tzifakis.bsky.social
Jean Monnet Chair @jmc-eufp-wb.bsky.social, Prof. at University of the Peloponnese. Project Coordinator @geopower-eu.bsky.social Visiting Prof. @collegeofeurope. Research Assoc. @MartensCentre. Member @biepag.bsky.social. Interests: #IR #Balkans #EU.
@marcelvdsteen.bsky.social
Travelling journalist, photographer and filmmaker | podcast de balkanman | Balkans, MENA | (post) conflict, migration | Rotterdam Sarajevo Beirut | Gelukszoekert |
@gwendalpiegais.bsky.social
Post-Doc @ucddublin.bsky.social • Dr. @univbrest.bsky.social • Historian #Russia #Ukraine #WW1 #CivilWar • Publisher Éd. Codex & Éd. Plein Jour Ongoing project: The Age of Civil Wars in Europe, c. 1914-1949 (https://civil-wars.eu/members/paul-huddie-2/)
@shkrimtare.bsky.social
Digital Communications. PhD: Albanian-German lit, Albanian/Kosovar culture. Adventurer. Compulsive reader. Ironic dancer. She/Her. 🏳️⚧️ 💖💜💙
@sladjanalazic.bsky.social
The so-called ‘peace scholar’ | assistant professor | Yugoslawomen+ Collective | queer | she/they | the Balkans | talks loudly & carries a chihuahua |
@millennialmaureen.bsky.social
Feminist, queer-supporting, USian in unceded Piscataway land. Smrt fašizmu She/her
@gezimvisoka.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, School of Law and Government, Dublin City University. Latest book: ‘The Derecognition of States’ https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.11703277.
@stergarr.bsky.social
Historian of the Habsburg Empire in the long 19th century; also WWI and history of nationalism. Professor in Modern History, University of Ljubljana.
@thetruearno.bsky.social
Balkan/CEE aficionado, freelance historian/political analyst/regional expert, currently working with Deutsche Bahn. Private profile, private ops. he/him My book: https://www.wallstein-verlag.de/9783835339040-sozialismus-und-blockfreiheit.html
@leadavid.bsky.social
The Past Can't Heal Us: The Danger of Mandating Memory in the Name of Human Rights (Cambridge UP) A Victim's Shoe, a Broken Watch and Marbles:Desire Objects and Human Rights (Columbia UP) Assistant Professor, School of Sociology, UCD
@pkostad.bsky.social
Associate Professor; Political Science; University of Illinois at Chicago; www.petiakostadinova.net. European Union; democracy; post-communist countries; Bulgaria. Posts about research, gardening, good food; parenting fails/wins, and youth travel hockey
@majuska.bsky.social
Architecture professor. Balkans. Hates horoscope. 🎈Groningen, The Netherlands
@johannamellis.bsky.social
Ex-D1 swimmer, historian. @endofsportpod.bsky.social. Writing on Hungarian sportspeople, state socialism, & IOC’s imperialism in the Cold War. she/her. Anti-DeSantis. IG jojomellis for outfits
@behalla63.bsky.social
PhD student work on French and Italian feminist theory, women's writing, and literary criticism.
@lalehjoon.bsky.social
Brooklynite, CUNY professor, trying to balance work on exile with some daily doses of beauty. Author "Spiritual Subjects" (SUP, 2020) https://rb.gy/8likn
@tomsimpsonphd.bsky.social
teaching & writing about global & tech ethics, religion, human rights…contributing editor/poetry reviews at Tar River…solidarity with Bosnia and Herzegovina
@cristigaspar.bsky.social
linguist, classicist & medievalist. lecturer at Central European University in Vienna. into languages, history of ancient & medieval sexualities, literature, beer, wine, sexy beards. bănățan. he/him 🏳️🌈 https://tinyurl.com/49w6yvdv
@ionutbiliuta.bsky.social
Historian of Eastern Europe focused especially on Romania, Greece, and Moldova. I am interested in studying the region through lenses such as antisemitism, the Holocaust, (neo-)fascism, and the impact of Orthodox Churches on local societies. Bookhoarder!
@alexandraszp.bsky.social
Historian of Yugoslavia & Global Public History
@ivangusic.bsky.social
Focusing on the war-peace nexus, postwar cities (Beirut, Belfast, Mitrovica, Mostar, Nicosia, etc.), the socioeconomics of peace, and geocoded urban violence at Uppsala University. I like mountains and tattoos.
@mejs.vladovince.com
Brooklyn, NY Bikes, buses, trains and the Balkans. I build things with computers and networks. I write about cities, transit and bikes. he/him. https://blog.vladovince.com
@mahmutovic.bsky.social
Writer (At the Feet of Mothers, How to Fare Well and Stay Fair, Thinner than a Hair) Prof of English Literature and Creative Writing at Stockholm University. Academic work (Ways of Being Free, Future in Comics, Craft of Editing, Claiming Space)
@alanmaricic.bsky.social
Historian. Posts on the Cold War, Germany, Yugoslavia, and anything else relevant to my interests. http://nanrep.org | https://mastodon.social/@terraform
@sokol-lleshi.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Political science UNYT, Albania. PhD political science @CEU. @AUBGedu alumnus. RM@V-Dem memory politics | state socialism | critical discourse analysis | political ethnography | party politics | norm diffusion | Eastern Europe.
@maassp.bsky.social
Editor & writer. Author of “Love Thy Neighbor” & “Crude World.” Done time at the NYT, WP, Intercept.
@richmondbridge.bsky.social
Edited The Routledge Companion to Popular Music and Politics of the Balkans (2025) and co-edited Off White: Central/Eastern Europe and the Global History of Race (2024). Eurovision research since longer than I can remember. She/her.
@johnpaulnewman.bsky.social
Historian of Central and Southeastern Europe, Maynooth University. Find me in Dublin, Prague, Zagreb, Sofia.
@redrightman.bsky.social
Yugo-born, Wales-raised. Film critic + curator at various places. Opinions own. He/Him. Email: fedor.tot@gmail.com
@nevenatrajkov.bsky.social
Professor, Political Science Research / comment / collab: democracy • regime consolidation • EU politics • Balkans • southern Europe • Spain • Florida & US politics • elections • civil society & trust I flirt with Latin America Once was a music teacher
@tregs.bsky.social
Proche de l'école militaire. Un peu de Balkans en dehors des heures de travail. Auteur du livre "Le football dans le chaos yougoslave" (2019) 🔴🔵
@acateux.bsky.social
France/Bosnia-Herzegovina Social and political anthropology, ISPOLE-UCLouvain. https://linktr.ee/alinecateux A VENIR : "Mostar : ceci n'est pas une ville", Éditions Actes Sud, Janv.2026 #BosniaHerzegovina #anthropology #urbicid #violence #memory #landscape
@danielalai.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in IR. Working on some combination of feminist IPE, transitions, steel, socioeconomic/post-war justice. Occasionally research methods. My views, etc... She/her/hers
@arnesa.bsky.social
Genocide Researcher & Scholar | Organiser | Writer | Lecturer & Educator | Scholars of Genocide Expert Group @GenocideExperts | Sociology & Social Criticism | Bosnian Genocide Survivor | “the worst bitch on twitter” | l https://substack.com/@arnesakustura
@moschovidis.bsky.social
Founder and Editor-In-Chief of EU FOR YOU. 🇬🇷+Yugoslav+🇩🇪. Mostly EU politics & Balkans. Trying to make both better. Coming to you live from Vienna. Exclusively private views on here.
@jelenadj.bsky.social
Historian. University of Vienna. Antifascism, anticolonialism & veterans’ internationalism between Yugoslavia & Africa in the global Cold War. Memory studies. Football.
@dzenetakarabeg.bsky.social
I teach, research, consult on #diaspora #justice #education #humanrights #migration #Balkans. PhD. Refugee. Vermonter. Transnational Bosnian American.
@taylormcconnell.bsky.social
Memory researcher. Big fan of monuments, less so of the people who build them. 🏳️🌈 📸 © Robert Schittko
@dabazovic.bsky.social
Sociolog(ist); osposobljen za naučni i nastavni rad u području / the holder of a university chair. Posts/objave in/na English/BCS here&there/tu&tamo
@filipejdus.bsky.social
Professor of security studies at the Faculty of Political Science, University of Belgrade. Spare time democracy activist. www.filipejdus.com
@alexsaysstuff.bsky.social
Balkan history and X-Men opinion-haver. Did a PhD on diplomacy in the Bosnian War. Host of The History of Yugoslavia podcast.
@mirzabuljubasic.bsky.social
Criminologist | Atrocity Crimes, Terrorism, Extremism and Punishment | Ailurophile | University of Sarajevo
@besnikpula.bsky.social
Political economist & social theorist, currently researching computation, knowledge, phenomenology | Author of books | Associate Prof @ Virginia Tech Political Science & Director, International Studies | besnikpula.com | Personal account
@lpcooley.bsky.social
Politics lecturer, University of Birmingham Work on the politics of deeply divided societies (mostly Northern Ireland these days), including power-sharing, demography and the census. Currently also thinking about Lough Neagh. #firstgen
@jkoranyi.bsky.social
Associate Professor at Durham University, co-editor of European History Quarterly, east-central Europe, minorities, memory. Fußballnostalgiker. Author of Migrating Memories (CUP) https://bit.ly/3GmvNUt
@ivanamihaela.bsky.social
PhD @CEU History: Yugoslav department stores Tutor @CEU Invisible University for Ukraine (she/ona)
@davidhenig.bsky.social
Czechoslovakia;companion species to a border terrier; AnthroHistory; @UtrechtUniProf; editor #History&Anthropology; writes on war ecologies@military waste; #polycrisis; planetary thought; agnotology@indeterminacy; coffee@jazz addict; @HFGuggenheim scholar
@teutas.bsky.social
@dacretu.bsky.social
Historian. Assistant Prof. at University of Warwick. Aid, Forced Migration, Modern Europe. My first book available now: https://www.sup.org/books/history/foreign-aid-and-state-building-interwar-romania . Currently writing on refugees, Habsburg Empire, WWI
@duhaut.bsky.social
Lecturer in Modern European Jewish History at the University of Southampton. Based at @historyatsoton.bsky.social & @parkesinstitute.bsky.social
@womenwritebalkans.bsky.social
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