Doctoral Students

Maja Barišić, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: A study of anti-immigrant attitudes and narratives among post-Yugoslav immigrants

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.rer.soc.oec Katharina Scherke

Email: maya.barisic(at)gmail.com

Sara Božičević, MA
Faculty of Law

PhD thesis: Constructing the identity of the informal settlement Kaludjerica

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. O.Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. (mult.) Karl Kaser

Financing: Rudi Roth scholarship, Julius Raab scholarship, Marietta Blau scholarship

Email: sara.bozicevic(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Malte Höfner, BSc MSc
Department of Geography and Regional Science

PhD thesis: Shared spaces of work, housing and public spaces in the example of the City of Graz

Mentor: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Ulrich Ermann

Financing: Styrian Provincial Government, Department of Science and Research

Email: malte.hoefner(at)uni-graz.at

Mag.iur. Michael Kramer
Institute for catechetics and religious pedagogics at the Faculty of Catholic Theology

PhD thesis: The Relationship between the State and the Islamic Religious Community in Austria (IRCA) in the Context of Educational Policy Challenges - A Legal and Political Science Analysis of Basic Structural Concepts

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joseph Marko, 2. Ao.Univ.-Prof. Mag. Dr.theol. Wolfgang Weirer

Financing: MIR-project, BMEIA

Email: michael.kramer(at)uni-graz.at

Claudia Laštro, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Crisis, contestation, and institutional change in Montenegro (1989-)

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. Prof. Dr. Christoph Stefes (University of Colorado, Denver)

Financing: Stiftung der Deutschen Wirtschaft (sdw)

Email: claudia.lastro(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Stefan Milosavljević, MA
Institute for Slavic Studies

PhD thesis: Durative adverbials and aspectual composition in Slavic

Mentor: Univ.-Prof. PhD Boban Arsenijević

Financing: Project Hyperspacing the Verb: The interplay between prosody, morphology and semantics in the Western South Slavic verbal domain supported by FWF, led by Univ.-Prof. PhD Boban Arsenijević

Email: stefan.milosavljevic(at)uni-graz.at

Marija Mirčevska, MSc
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: In pursuit of truth: Examining ICTY’s comprehensive record of past war crime violations

Email: marija.mirchevska(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Richard Newell, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Where is Jasenovac?

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. Assoz. Prof. Dr. Vjeran Pavlaković (University of Rijeka)

Financing: two scholarships from the David Herzogs Fond of the University of Graz

Email: richardnewellster(at)gmail.com

Lura Pollozhani, MSc
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Social movements in divided societies: opportunities of accessing and expanding citizenship- the case of North Macedonia

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. Priv.-Doz. Mag. Dr.phil. Robert Pichler (Academy of Sciences Vienna)

Financing: Project Contexts of Extremism in MENA and Balkan Societies supported by CONNEKT

Email: lura.pollozhani(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Mag. Ernst Michael Preininger
Department of Geography and Regional Science

PhD thesis: Visible and Invisible Transformations by Agriculture 4.0 and the (Re-) Construction of Rurality

Mentor: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Ulrich Ermann

Financing: Styrian Province Government

Email: ernst.preininger(at)uni-graz.at

Biljana Purić, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies / Institute of History of Art

PhD thesis: Europeanization by Other Means: Europe and Post-Yugoslav Art Practices

Financing: Doctoral Academy Graz

Email: biljana.puric(at)gmail.com

Branimir Staletović, LL.M. MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Power and Ideology in the Urban Space: the case of Skopje 2014

Mentor: Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber

Email: branimir.staletovik(at)uni-graz.at

László Szerencsés, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: From nation-building to political survival: Turkish foreign policy in Kosovo and Serbia (2013-2018)

Mentors: 1. Dr. Kerem Öktem, 2. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber

Financing: Project Migration-Integration-religiöse Vielfalt (MIR), KUWI Scholarship, Visegrad Fund

Email: laszlo.szerencses(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Konstantinos Tasopoulos, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Politicizing Public Administration in Yugoslav successor states; the cases of Croatia, Serbia & fYROM and the legacy of self-management socialism

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Josef Marko

Email: konstantinos.tasopoulos(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Gül Üret, MA
Faculty of Law / Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Between national narrative and new discoveries: Post-2016 migration from Turkey to Greece

Mentors: 1. Dr. Kerem Öktem, 2. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber

Financing: Project Migration-Integration-religiöse Vielfalt (MIR) supported by Bund (Ministerien), Rudi Roth scholarship

Email: gul.uret(at)uni-graz.at

Jan Vlakančić, MA
Law Faculty / Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: Attempted Statehood and Legitimization of a De Facto State: A Case Study of the Republic of Serbian Krajina

Mentors: 1. Univ.-Prof. Dr.phil. Florian Bieber, 2. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Joseph Marko

Email: vlakancic.jan(at)edu.uni-graz.at

Mladen Zobec, MA
Centre for Southeast European Studies

PhD thesis: From workers to entrepreneurs: transformation of Albanian migrants in SR Slovenia from state-employed labourers to workers and owners of small family businesses

Financing: Project To the Northwest! Intra-Yugoslav Albanian migration (1953-1989) supported by FWF, led by Rory Archer

Email: Mladen.zobec(at)gmail.com