Dejan Djokić

Dejan Djokić is a Professor of History at the University of London (Goldsmiths College) and Guest Professor in South-East European History at Humboldt University of Berlin. His research spans across, and brings together, three main strands: the Yugoslav war; global and cultural history of the Cold War; and history of Southeastern Europe since the Middle Ages. Dejan is a recipient of some of the most prestigious grants and fellowships. His main current project, a pioneering study of the last generation of Yugoslav army conscripts (1990/91), is funded by the British Academy and The Leverhulme Trust. In 2015/16 he was an Alexander von Humboldt fellow. Prior to joining Goldsmiths in 2007, Dejan held lectureships at Birkbeck and Nottingham (a permanent post) and research fellowships at Columbia University, New York and Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC. He was a visiting professor at School of International & Public Affairs, Columbia University (2010) and a research fellow in History & Civilisation Dept, EUI, Florence (2014).