Dejan Djokić
Professor
History
Goldsmiths University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Prof Dejan Djokić has commented on historical and contemporary events in former Yugoslavia for UK and international media, including BBC Radio 3, Radio 4 and BBC World Service, Sky News, ABC National Radio (Sydney)
Research Interest
Prof Djokić's research interests lie in the field of modern history of the Balkans, in particular political, social and cultural history of former Yugoslavia. Prof Djokić's wider interests include the rise and development of national ideologies in nineteenth-century Europe, democracy and dictatorship in interwar Europe, and Cold War history. Prof Djokić seems himself both as a historian of modern Europe who specializes in former-Yugoslavia, and as an area studies scholar, engaging with, among others, anthropologists, cultural studies scholars and political and social scientists researching the Balkans. In 2009, Prof Djokić founded an inter-disciplinary Centre for the Study of the Balkans at Goldsmiths and, with a group of historians from other institutions, 'Rethinking Modern Europe', an Institute of Historical Research seminar. In July 2014, Prof Djokić's was awarded Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers by Germany's Humboldt Foundation
Publications
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Beyond the Curtain: Britain, the Labour Party and the Left in Cold War Europe Djokic, Dejan, ed. 2006. Beyond the Curtain: Britain, the Labour Party and the Left in Cold War Europe, European History Quarterly, 36(3). 0265-6914
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Nesentimentalni idealisti: Desimir ToÅ¡ić, Božidar Vlajić i uvodnici Äasopisa NaÅ¡a reÄ. Pariz-London, 1948-1990 Djokic, Dejan. 2013. Nesentimentalni idealisti: Desimir ToÅ¡ić, Božidar Vlajić i uvodnici Äasopisa NaÅ¡a reÄ. Pariz-London, 1948-1990. Belgrade: Službeni glasnik / Otkrovenje. ISBN 978-86-519-1726-7 (hb)
