(photo credit:Davor Puklavec/PIXSELL )
Professor and Chair of the Department of Politics
B.A., Wilson College; M.B.A., University of New Hampshire; M.A., Northeastern University; M.A., Ph.D., Brown University
midragoj@sewanee.edu
Carnegie Hall 316
Mila Dragojević is a Professor of Comparative Politics whose areas of research interest include peace and diplomacy, political violence, identity and memory politics, regime transitions, migrations, as well as area studies of Europe and America. She is the author of three books, The Politics of Social Ties: Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland (Routledge 2016), Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War (Cornell University Press 2019, translated in Croatia with Srednja Europa in 2020 under the title Identiti u ratu: Civilne žrtve u komparativnoj perspektivi), and An Uncertain Spring: Reforms, Protest, and Suppression in Croatia, 1968-1971 (forthcoming with Indiana University Press). She also authored a number of articles in Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Contemporary Issues, Slavic Review, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Nationalities Papers, and other peer-reviewed journals. Her research was funded by the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, Fulbright, Appalachian College Association, and a number of University of the South internal grants, including James D. Kennedy III Faculty Fellowship, and the McCrickard Grant.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Amoral Communities: Collective Crimes in Time of War. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019.
Croatian translation, Identiteti u ratu: Civilne žrtve u komparativnoj perspektivi, Zagreb : Srednja Europa, 2020.
The Politics of Social Ties: Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland. New York: Ashgate, 2014/Routledge, 2016.
With Tamara Banjeglav, “Laying Foundations for Democratic Regimes Through Memorialisation Practices,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Vol. 27, No. 1, 2021.
“Violence and the Production of Borders in Western Slavonia,” Slavic Review, Vol. 75, No. 2: 422-455, Summer 2016.
With Vjeran Pavlaković, “Local Memories of Wartime Violence: Commemorating World War Two in Gospić,” Suvremene teme [Contemporary Issues], Vol. 8, No. 1: 66-87, January 2017.
“Incorporation Beyond Identity: Co-ethnic Immigrants in Serbia,” Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 36, no.12: 2096-2116, December 2013.
“Memory and Identity: Inter-generational Narratives of Violence among Refugees in Serbia,” Nationalities Papers, Vol. 41, no.6: 1065-1082, December 2013.
Book comment. Embracing Democracy in the Western Balkans: From Post-Conflict Struggles toward European Integration by Lenard J. Cohen and John R. Lampe, Southeastern Europe, Vol. 37 No. 2: 221-227, June 2013.
“Contesting Ethnicity: Emerging Regional Identity in Vojvodina,” Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 8. No. 2: 290-316, September 2008.
“Competing Institutions in National Identity Construction: The Croatian Case,” Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 11: 61-87, Spring 2005.
