Social anthropologist. Her PhD thesis from the Central European University (CEU) explored the intersections between private and official memory of the 1990s wars in Serbia and their affective dimensions, conveyed through various performative practices. She was a post-doctoral fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences (IWM) in 2024–5. Currently, she is affiliated as an associated researcher to the ERC project Memory and Populism from Below, at the Institute of Ethnology at the Czech Academy of Sciences.
When NATO intervened in the Yugoslav wars on 24 March 1999, depleted uranium weaponry punctured Serbian targets across the region, leaving permanent contamination behind. Populists, whose victim narrative gained ground, now position nuclear as the solution to energy dependency. But how can public fear and security be one and the same?