Dr Iva Jelušić; Visiting Fellowship 2022/23

• iva.jelusic@cmi.no

Bio:

I am a post-doctoral researcher for the ERC ‘War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience’ research project at the Christian Michelsen Institute in Bergen, Norway.
I completed a Master of Arts in European Women’s and Gender History at the Department of Gender Studies at the Central European University (Budapest, Hungary/Vienna, Austria) in 2015 and I hold a PhD in Comparative History from the same university (2022).
My research interests include social history, especially women’s and gender history and the history of feminism in the state socialist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. My dissertation research focuses on the development of cultural memory of the People’s Liberation Struggle in Yugoslav popular media, with particular focus on the figure of the female soldier, the partizanka. In my current research I explore officially organized entertainment in the partisan army, especially partisan theater, as propaganda, art, and fun.

Goals (Jan 1 – March 1, 2023):
I will spend two months at the INZ in the framework of the institute’s Visiting Fellowship Program. During my stay, I plan to conduct research at the Ljubljana Historical Archives and the National and University Library. More importantly, I hope to meet the institute’s experts and utilize stimulating intellectual environment at the INZ to further my current research as well as develop foundations for our future cooperation.

Publications:
Peer reviewed

• “Jovanka Broz and the Yugoslav Popular Press during Tito’s Reign: At the Crossroads of Tradition and Emancipation (1952-1980),” Aspasia 16 (2022): 171-188.
• “Start’s ‘Sexual Swashbucklers’ and ‘Our Girl’ Ideology: Women and War in the Only Yugoslav Men’s Magazine (1969-1980),” Prague Papers on the History of International Relations (2020): 7-28.
• “The Mother in the Yugoslav Partisan Myth: Creative Revisions and Subversive Messages in Women-Centered Narratives,” History of Communism in Europe 8 (2017): 323-342, special issue The Other Half of Communism: Women’s Outlook.

Book reviews

• Žene i moć: Povijesna geneza jednog interesa (Women and Power: Historical Origin of an Interest), by Lydia Sklevicky, edited by Andrea Feldman and Marijana Kardum, radio contribution, “Tocan a una, tocan a todas,” Sektor Ž, Radio Študent, Ljubljana, June 3, 2021, 32:36 – 42:38, https://radiostudent.si/kultura/sektor-%C5%BE/%C2%A1tocan-a-una-tocan-a-todas-%C4%8De-se-dotaknejo-en e-se-dotaknejo-vseh-nas.
• Before Tito: The Communist Party of Yugoslavia During the Great Purge (1936–1940), by Stefan Gužvica, Southeastern Europe 45 (2021): 161-162. DOI:10.30965/18763332-45010011.
• TV Socialism, by Anikó Imre, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 27, no. 3 (March 2020): 418-420, DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2019.1659601.
• Women, antifascism and Mussolini’s Italy. The life of Marion Cave Rosselli, by Isabelle Richet, European Review of History: Revue européenne d'histoire 26, no. 6 (May 2019): 1052-1053, DOI: 10.1080/13507486.2019.1612610.