Dr. Ognjen Kojanić
Research Associate
Curriculum Vitae
- 2023 – Research Associate, University of Freiburg
- 2022 – 2023 Humboldt Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Cologne
- 2021 – 2022 Independent Scholar, Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant
- 2014 – 2020 PhD in Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA, United States
- 2013 – 2014 MA in Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University; Budapest, Hungary
- 2011 – 2012 Undergraduate Exchange Program Fellow in Anthropology, University of Georgia; Athens, GA, United States
- 2009 – 2013 BA in Ethnology and Anthropology, University of Belgrade; Belgrade, Serbia
Regional Interests
Southeast Europe (Serbia, Croatia)
Thematic Interests
- Economic Anthropology
- Political Economy
- Environmental Anthropology
- Infrastructure Studies
- Political Anthropology
Research Activities
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Follow-up work on the doctoral project “Ownership vs. Property Rights in a Worker-Owned Company in Post-Socialist Croatia”
- Post-doctoral project “Infrastructure, Political Economy, and Human-Environment Relations in Belgrade Wetlands”
Main Publications
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2023. “Anthropology of the Balkans.” In Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190854584.013.616.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2023. “On Redefining Boundaries and Opening New Terrains in a Peripheral Anthropological Tradition.” Anthropological Quarterly 96 (3): 567–81. https://doi.org/10.1353/anq.2023.a905304.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2023. “Micron Engagements, Macro Histories: Machines and the Agency of Labor in a Worker-Owned Company.” History and Anthropology 0 (0): 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2023.2172721.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2022. “Rethinking the Failure of Waste Infrastructures with Jackals.” Roadsides 008: 58–64. https://doi.org/10.26034/roadsides-202200809.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2021. “‘We’re All Here for the Money’: Solidarity and Divisions in a Worker-Owned Company.” Dialectical Anthropology 45 (2): 151–68. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-020-09616-z.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2020. “Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology?” Anthropological Journal of European Cultures 29 (2): 49–66. https://doi.org/10.3167/ajec.2020.290204.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2017. “‘You Can’t Weed Out Corruption’: Railway Workers’ Assessments of the State in Post-Socialist Serbia.” Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU 65 (1): 47–63. https://doi.org/10.2298/GEI1701047K.
Kojanić, Ognjen. 2015. “Nostalgia as a Practice of the Self in Post-Socialist Serbia.” Canadian Slavonic Papers 57 (3–4): 195–212. https://doi.org/10.1080/00085006.2015.1090760.
Teaching
University of Freiburg
2023
- 2023, MA Seminar Anthropology of Infrastructure, University of Freiburg
- 2023 BA Seminar Anthropology of Class and Labor in Eastern Europe, University of Freiburg
University of Pittsburgh
2020
- BA course Anthropology of Food
University of Pittsburgh
2019
- BA course Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Regional Interests