Education
1996-2003 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology. Thesis: Lost Objects: Ethnicity, Consumption, and Gendered Spaces in Macedonia.
1995-1996 Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Department of Anthropology, Master of Arts in Anthropology. Thesis: Reframing the Nation, Rewriting the Past: Macedonian National Identity since 1991.
1994-1995 University of Cambridge (Downing College), Cambridge, UK. Department of Social Anthropology, Master of Philosophy in Social Anthropology. Thesis: Perceiving Multivalences: Statuses of Women in the Balkan Zadruga.
1993-1994 Central European University, (Budapest College), Budapest, Hungary. Department of History, Master of Arts in History. Thesis: Comparison Between the Torbesh Zadruga and the Hungarian Joint Family.
1988-1992 University St Cyril and Methodius, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia. Department of Ethnology, Bachelor of Arts in Ethnology. Thesis: Rituals and Customs Concerning Pregnancy, Child Bearing and Early Childhood Among the Torbesh Group in the Republic of Macedonia.
Academic Honours, Fellowships and Grants
2003-2005 Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany
2003 Robert Texture Award for Outstanding Anthropological Creativity, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
2002-2003 Geballe Dissertation Fellow, Humanities Center, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (Awarded full tuition and living stipend to serve as a Humanities Fellow in residence)
2002-2003 Graduate Dissertation Fellow, Stanford Institute for Research on Women and Gender, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
2002-2003 MacArhtur Consortium Dissertation Fellowship, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, CA. (declined)
2002-2003 MacArthur Consortium Affiliate, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, Stanford, CA.
2002 Fellow, Center for Conflict and Negotiation Fellowship, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
2001 Mellon Dissertation Write-Up Grant, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
2001 O'Bie Shultz Fellowship, Dissertation Research Travel Grant, Institute of International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1999 NSF (National Science Foundation) Dissertation Fieldwork Research Grant for Fieldwork Conducted in Macedonia from June 1999 until January 2001.
1998 Mellon Department of Anthropology Summer Grant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1997 Mellon Summer Research Grant, Dept. of Anthropology, Stanford University and Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies Summer Research Grant, Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
1996-2000 New Democracy Fellowship, Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (Four year tuition and living stipend).
1995-1996 Pre-Doctoral Fellowship, Central European University, Department of History, Budapest College, Budapest, Hungary.
1995 Summer Research Travel Grant University of Cambridge, Downing College, Cambridge, UK.
1994-1995 Cambridge Overseas Trust and Soros Foundation Joint Scholarship. (One year tuition and living stipend for the M.Phil. Program at Cambridge).
1993-1994 Soros Foundation M.A. Scholarship at the Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
1992 University St Cyril and Methodius Department of Ethnology, The Best Student of the Year Award.
1988-1992 Republic of Macedonia Ministry of Education Scholarship, Skopje, Macedonia.
Teaching and Research Positions
2003 Teaching Affiliate, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Instructor for the Undergraduate Lecture-style Course Introduction to Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford, CA. (forthcoming, Summer 2003).
2002 Teaching Affiliate, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. Instructor for the Undergraduate Course Anthropology of the Balkans, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. (Designed and thought the seminar-style course).
2001 Research Assistant for Professor Akhil Gupta, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford, CA. (Conducted Library Research for Prof. Gupta's Project on the link between the State and Space).
2001 Research Assistant for Professor Purnima Mankekar, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford, CA. (Conducted Internet Research for Prof. Mankekar's Project on Cross Cultural Representations of St. Valentine).
2001 Teaching Assistant for Professor Sarah Jain's Course Car Culture, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford, CA. (Facilitated discussions, graded papers, and communicated with students about their paper topics).
1998 Research Assistant for Prof. Carol Delaney's Course Investigating Culture, Anthropology Department, Stanford, CA. (run the class film series twice a week).
1998 Teaching Assistant for Prof. Nicholas De Genova's Course Racialization of Culture, Anthropology Department, Stanford, CA. (Facilitated discussions).
1997 Teaching Assistant for Prof. Clifford Barnet's Course in Medical Anthropology, Anthropology Department, Stanford, CA. (Led two sections twice a week, graded papers, graded final exam, and communicated with students about their paper topics)
1997 Instructor in Macedonian Language, Slavic Department. Stanford, CA.
Fieldwork Research Experience
June 2002-Sept. 2002 Ethnographic Research in Skopje, Macedonia. (Analyzing the pre- and post-election political situation in Macedonia).
June 2001-Sept. 2001 Ethnographic field research in Kumanovo and Skopje, Macedonia (Interviewing Albanians and Macedonians about the war in Macedonia in 2001).
June 1999-Jan. 2001 Ethnographic field research in Kumanovo, Macedonia. (Conducting fieldwork research on the relationship between ethnic conflict and material culture in Kumanovo).
Summer 1998, 1997 Ethnographic field research in Skopje, Macedonia. (Investigating the privatization process at the Agency for Privatization in Skopje).
Summer 1994 Archival research for the MA thesis in the National Archive in Skopje, Macedonia. (Researching family trees and histories of the extended households from Pagarusha, Macedonia).
Jan. 1991-June 1991 Ethnographic field research for the BA thesis among the Torbesh ethnic group, Pagarusha, Macedonia.
Presentations
November 2003 Producing Alterity: Migration and Class in Macedonia. 102nd American Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, USA.
November 2002 The Kismet of Education. 101th American Anthropological Association Meetings, New Orleans, LA, USA.
December 2001 Ethnicity and Urban Spaces in Macedonia, International Conference: Our Peculiar Cities, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania.
July 2001 Obscure Objects, Entangled Spaces: Space and Ethnicity in Contemporary Macedonia Junior Scholar Workshop on South-Eastern Europe, Center for Democracy and Reconciliation in South-Eastern Europe, Dubrovnik, Croatia
June 2001 From Privilege to Burden: Tautological Limitations of the Name Macedonia International Conference: Macedonia/Macedonians, University College London, Center for Eastern-European and Slavonic Studies, London, UK
May 2001 Two Sides of a Coin: Narratives on Human Rights Among Ethnic Albanians and Macedonians in Macedonia. Annual Meetings of the American Ethnological Society: Culture, Difference, Inequality. Montreal, Canada.
May 2001 Ethnicity and Art in Contemporary Macedonia Annual Meetings of the Canadian Association of Slavists, Quebec City, Canada.
June 2000 Frozen Spaces: National Identification, Material Signifiers and Space in Post-1991 Macedonia, Reconstructing the Past in South-Eastern Europe, Center for South-Eastern European Studies, University of Wales-Lampeter, Swansea, UK.
March 2000 Fixing Spaces: National Spatiality in Contemporary Macedonia International Conference: Transformation of Communication Culture in Post-Communist Europe, Erasmus Institute for Communication, Budapest, Hungary.
February 2000 Decorating Spaces: Nationalism, Material Signifiers and Space in Macedonia International Conference Views from Within: Ethnographic Perspectives on Post-Socialist Culture, SOYUZ (Anthropological Network for Central and Eastern Europe), Columbia University, New York, NY.
September 1999 Other Europe: National Phantasmagoria in the Balkans International Conference: "Ideas about Europe", University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain
April 1999 National Phantasmagoria: Macedonian Nationalism since 1991 Graduate Students Conference, Columbia University. New York, NY.
December 1998 Recourse of Fantasy: Macedonia after 1991 Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA.
September 1997 Reframing the Nation, Rewriting the Past Second Meetings of the Anthropological Association for the Balkans: Imagining the Balkans, Bucharest, Romania.
June 1997 Affirmation of the Macedonian National Identity After 1991 Third North American-Macedonian Conference, Victoria University, Toronto, Canada.
August 1996 Politics of Identities in the Republic of Macedonia: Redefinition of Ethnic and National Identities after the Dismemberment of the Yugoslav Federation Woodrow Wilson Institute: Junior Scholar Training Seminar, Washington D.C.
April 1996 The Surviving Orphan: Republic of Macedonia after the Dissolution of the Yugoslav Federation Eastern European Block Scholars Conference, University of California, Davis. CA.
March 1995 Nationalism and History in the Republic of Macedonia Hellenic Society Forum Nationalism and History in the Southern Balkans University of Cambridge, Robinson College, Cambridge, UK.
April 1994 The Position of Women in the Torbesh Zadruga Conference Women in History - Women's History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary.
Language Abilities
Macedonian: native fluency
English, Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian, Bulgarian: fluent
Albanian, Italian and Slovenian: intermediate
German: poor
Departmental Activities
2002-2003 The Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology Newsletter Editor, Stanford, CA.
2002-2002 Co-authoring the Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellowship Application Proposal, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford, CA.
2001 Graduate Student Admission Committee Member, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford, CA.
1999 Junior Faculty Search Committee Member, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford, CA.
1998 Graduate Student Admission Committee Member, Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Stanford, CA.
University Activities
2002-2003 Thesis Advisor of Ms. Diana Budur, an undergraduate student majoring in Human Biology, whose honors thesis is on the Rroma Traditions in Contemporary Romania, Stanford, CA.
2002-2003 Financial Officer, Stanford Balkan Student Association, Stanford, CA. Elected to manage budget for campus community group. Coordinated the Creative Youth Weekend Workshop for Refugee Youth from Former Yugoslavia Residing in the Bay Area on the Stanford Campus, Stanford, CA.
1997 Conference Coordinator, Western Intervention in the Bosnian War, Students Against Genocide (SAGE), Stanford University, Stanford, CA.
Community and Non-profit Organization Service
2002-present Assistant Coordinator, Bosnian & Herzegovinian Cultural Center Non-Profit Organization, Belmont, CA. Assisted to Coordinate the First and the Second Bosnian & Herzegovinian Film Festival: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow, Oakland, CA.
2001-present Board Member, Balkan Youth, Non-Profit Organization, Berkeley, CA.
2001-2002 Board Member, Eastern European Service Agency, Non-Profit Organization San Jose, CA.
Professional Memberships
American Anthropological
Association American Ethnological Society
American Association of Slavic Studies
Canadian Association of Slavic Studies
European Association for Balkan Anthropology