academic

Research Interests & Related Skills

Modern and contemporary art; street art, graffiti, and murals; contemporary curatorial practices; independent art initiatives in Serbia/the Balkans; interculturalism; queer art history.

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Education

Temple University, Tyler School of Art & Architecture (Philadelphia, PA, ongoing), PhD: Art History

University of California, Davis (Davis, California, June 2023), MA: Art History

• Thesis: The Adventures of Inspector Yoda the Wrinkled: Queering the Streets of Belgrade
• Committee: Dr. Susette Min (advisor), Dr. Michael Yonan, Dr. Mitja Velikonja

University of Arts in Belgrade (Belgrade, Serbia, September 2017, MA: Cultural Policy and Management

• Thesis: How does it work? Cultural Networks Management in the Euro-Mediterranean Region, Cultural Innovators Network case study
• Committee: Dr. Goran Tomka (advisor), Dr. Milena Dragićević Šešić, Dr. Predrag Cvetičanin

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Philosophy (Belgrade, Serbia, October 2008), BA: Art History

• Thesis: Zapisi civilizovanog divljaka: Pol Gogen u svetlu orijentalizma, kolonijalizma i primitivizma (The writings of a noble savage: Paul Gauguin in light of primitivism, exoticism and orientalism)
• Advisor: Dr. Simona Čupić

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Teaching Assistant Experience

University of California, Davis, Department of Art History

• AHI 188B: Architecture of the United States (Christina Cogdell) Spring 2023
• AHI 179B: Baroque Art (Lindsay Riordan) Winter 2023
• AHI 176A: Art of the Middle Ages: Early Christian & Byzantine Art (Lindsay Riordan) Fall 2022
• AHI 172B: Early Greek Art and Architecture (Alexandra Sofroniew) Spring 2022
• AHI 188B: History of American Architecture (Christina Cogdell) Winter 2022
• AHI 172A: Later Greek Art and Architecture (Alexandra Sofroniew) Fall 2021

University of Belgrade, Faculty of Architecture, Associate lecturer 10/2012–02/2013

• Created the “About and Around Curating” university course along with colleague Andrej Bereta
• Co-taught 21 students and arranged to have their work exhibited at a gallery space
• Co-edited the exhibition catalog and co-authored an article for the Serbian Architectural Journal

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Conferences & lectures

• Art History & Comics graduate symposium (org. Hunter Kiley, Xuying Liu & Srđan Tunić). UC Davis, 14th April 2023.
  • “Tea Gathering in Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo.”
• “‘Are You Waiting For Us?’ Queering the Streets of Belgrade.” College Art Association of America, 111^th annual conference, 02/2023.
• “Plants, Insects and Art: Mary Foley Benson’s Scientific Illustrations.” Bohart Museum of Entomology, Department of Entomology and Nematology, and Aggie Spirit Week, UC Davis, 10/2022.
• “The Woman With the Gun: Nasta Rojc’s Self-Portrait in Hunter Suit in the Light of Feminist, Queer, and Postcolonial Theories.” Queer and Gender Studies in the Slavic Context, 07/2022.
• “F*** Gays Homophobia! Queering Street Art & the Adventures of Inspector Yoda the Wrinkled.” Ljubljana Street Art Festival, 06/2022.
• “Neuropathology of Belgrade: Visual Diaries from the Apocalypse Age.” Weird Studies Symposium, UC Davis, 04/2022.

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Research internships

Bohart Museum of Entomology, UC Davis, Davis, California, 03-12/2022.

• Archival and research work on entomological and botanical illustrator Mary Foley Benson. Preparing an article, Wikipedia page and promotional public events (presentations, pop-up exhibitions, public tours).

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Service

• University of California, Davis, Undergraduate Research Center, served as a graduate student mentor to an undergraduate student as part of the Mentor-Mentee Program in Humanities, Arts, Cultural Studies and Social Sciences (MMP-HARCSS) program, 01/2022-06/2022.
• Slovo Journal (ed. Borimir Totev), Peer reviewer, 2015-2017.