Biography
Senka Bozic-Vrbancic is Mcarthur Research Fellow in the School of Philosophy, Anthropology and Social Enquiry at the University of Melbourne. She holds a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She has worked in Croatia, New Zealand, Ukraine and Australia. Her scholarly interests range widely, from indigenous and migrant identity formation, the politics of representation, visual culture and diaspora issues, to nationalisms and multiculturalisms. She has published her work in various journals including Ethnography, History and Anthropology, and the Journal of Polynesian Society. Her book Tarara: Maori and Croats in New Zealand, memory, belonging, identity (Otago University Press, 2008), explores the relationships between Croatians and Maori individuals and communities in New Zealand, and how these relationships shape identities and memories. Drawing on a wide range of theoretical sources, including feminist theory, psychoanalysis and postcolonial theory, the book offers both an anti-essentialist critique of identity but also a deeply political insistence on how identity ‘matters’, as the very stuff of politics and political action. Her current research is on the politics of culture in the European Union.
Qualifications, Honours, Fellowships and Other
Awards
Qualifications
| Title |
Institution |
Date Awarded |
Abbreviation |
| DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY IN ANTROPOLOGY |
The University of Auckland |
31-Dec-2004 |
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| MASTER OF ARTS AN ANTROPOLOGY |
The University of Auckland |
31-Dec-1999 |
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| BACHELOR OF ARTS IN PHILOSOPHY AND SOCIAL |
University of Sarajevo |
31-Dec-1987 |
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Memberships
| Membership Type |
Membership Body |
Description |
Start Date |
End Date |
| Member |
Australian Anthropological Society |
member |
15-Oct-2008 |
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Government Research Classifications
Research Fields, Courses and Discipline Classifications
Socio-Economic Objective Classifications
Publications
Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.
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