Bosnian-Herzegovinian American Academy of Arts and Sciences (BHAAAS)

AIDA A. HOZIC
2879 NW 4^th Lane
Gainesville, FL 32607
352-273-2396
hozic@ufl.edu

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Assoctiate Professor, Department of Political Science, 2008-present

Co-director (with Ido Oren) of the Studies of the United States Institute on US Foreign Policy, sponsored by the US Department of State, Bureau of Cultural and Educational Affairs, 2008-present

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida

Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 2001-2008

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (

MacArthur Fellow, Institute for European Studies, 2000-2001 (Visiting Fellow, 1999-2000)

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Summer 2000.

Ithaca College, Ithaca, New York (

Assistant Professor, Department of Politics, 1999-2000 (non-tenure track).

Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, 1998-99.

University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia

Teaching Assistant, 1990-1992; Instructor, 1992-1995; Lecturer, 1998. Department of Politics

INVITED VISTING POSITIONS

Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey

Invited Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science and International Relations (Summer 2002, 2007)

Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Invited Visiting Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of International Relations and

European Studies (Winter and Spring of 2006, Winter and Spring 2007)

EDUCATION

Ph.D. with Distinction, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, August 1997.

Dissertation: The Rise of the Merchant Economy: Industrial Change in the American Film Industry. Committee: Herman Schwartz (chair), John Echeverri-Gent, Leonard Schoppa, Eric Lott (Department of English).

M.A in International Affairs., The Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna, Italy, May 1989.

Thesis, directed by Gianfranco Pasquino: The Origins of Left-Wing Terrorism in Western Europe: Social and Political Consequences of the 1968 Student Protests.

Diploma (B.A.), Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, October 1985. Concentration in contemporary continental philosophy, social theory and literary criticism

PUBLICATIONS

Books

Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY, 2001)

Book reviewed in International Studies Review, American Journal of Sociology, International Journal of Communication, Virginia Quarterly Review, Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Harvard Business History Review, Choice, International Feminist Journal of Politics

Journal Articles

"Balkan Merchants," Ethnopolitics, 5:2, Fall 2006, pp. 243-256

"Between the Cracks: Balkan Cigarette Smuggling," Problems of Post-Communism, 51:3, May/June 2004,pp.35-44

"Zoning, or How to Govern (Cultural) Violence?" Cultural Values, Volume 6, Number 1, 2002, pp. 183-195.

"'Hello, My Name is...' Articulating Loneliness in a Digital Diaspora," Afterimage, (special issue on media representation of Balkan wars), Volume 28, Number 4, January 2001, pp. 21-22.

"Uncle Sam Goes to Siliwood: Of Landscapes, Spielberg and Hegemony," in Review of International Political Economy, Volume 6, Number 3, August 1999, pp. 289-312.

"The House I Live In: An Interview With Charles Burnett," Callaloo: A Journal of African-American and African Arts and Letters, Volume 17, Number 2, 1994, pp. 471-91.

Articles in Edited Volumes

"Democratizing Media, Welcoming Big Brother: Media in Bosnia and Herzegovina after Dayton" in Karol Jakubowicz and Miklos Sukosd (eds.) Finding the Right Place on the Map: Central and Eastern European Media Change in Global Perspective (Intellect Books, Amsterdam, 2008), pp. 145-163

"Merchants, Crime and Sovereignty in the Balkans," in Douglas Howland and Luise White (eds.) The State of Sovereignty: Territory, Laws, Populations (Indiana University Press, 2008) pp. 243-260

"Representing Homeland Security," in Charles-Philippe David and David Grondin (eds.) Hegemony or Empire: Redefinition of American Power Under George W. Bush (Ashgate, London, 2006), pp.51-66

"Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, and Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond" in Jutta Weldes (ed.) To Seek Out the New Worlds:  Science Fiction and International Relations, (Palgrave Macmillan, London and New York, 2003)

"Political Economy of Global Culture" in Michael Brint and Reneo Lukic (eds.), Culture, Politics, Nationalism (Ashgate Press, London, 2001), pp. 55-78.

"Making of the Unwanted Colonies: Un-Imagining Desire," in Jodi Dean (ed.) Political Theory and Cultural Studies (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, 2000), pp. 228-240.

"Hollywood Goes on Sale," in David Desser and Garth Jowett (eds.), Hollywood Goes Shopping (University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2000), pp. 312-332.

"The Inverted World of Spectacle" in John Orr and Dragan Klaic (eds.) Terrorism and Modern Drama (University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, 1990), pp. 64-81.

Book Reviews

"The Court of Last Resort," Foreign Policy, July/August 2008, pp.84-88

The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and Cyberspace, by VIncent Mosco and Hollywood, the Pentagon and Washington: The Movies and National Security from World War II to the Present Day, in Millennium,34:3 (August 2006), pp. 967-970

The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in Post-Dayton Bosnia, by Timothy Donais, in Slavic Review, 65: 4, Winter 2006, p. 818

Work in Progress:

Secrets of States: State building, Illicit Trade and the Politics of State Crimes in Former Yugoslavia (book manuscript based on continued research on illicit trade and cigarette smuggling in the Balkans, with new focus on complicity of state security services in criminality)

"Manufacturing Electoral Victories: Constructing Perceptions, Not Just Institutions" (paper presented at APSA, co-authored with B. Moraski and R. Scher, now under revision)

Other publications

"Izvan Politike," Oslobodjenje, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Spring 2008 (book review of Nermina Sacic's book Izvan Politike [Beyond Politics] published in Bosnian language)

"Who Needs the New Economy?" (with Herman Schwartz) Salon, March 16, 2001

"Italy: A Difficult Economy," UVA-F-1245, © University of Virginia Darden School Foundation, Charlottesville, 1998) Darden Business School, Charlottesville, Virginia, Summer 1998.

And a number of articles published between 1985 and 1989 in newspapers, magazines and literary journals of the former Yugoslavia (Vjesnik, Zagreb, Croatia; NIN and Student, Belgrade, Serbia; Mladina, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Izraz, Odjek, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina).

AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

Study of the United States Institute on US Foreign Policy, co-investigator and academic co-director with Ido Oren, grant awarded by the United States Department of State in the amount of 274, 488 dollars to host a 6-week summer program for foreign scholars at the University of Florida. (reneweable for 3 years)

Fulbright Lecturing and Research Award, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faculty of Political Science, Sarajevo, 2006-2007

ISA Workshop Grant, 2005 Competition, for the workshop on "Interstices of Sovereignty," (with Samuel J.Barkin)

Fully funded participant in SWAMOS (Summer Workshop on Military Operations and Strategy), organized by the Institute for War and Peace, Columbia University and held at Cornell University, Ithaca, July 11-30, 2004

Book nominated for Doris Graber Award, APSA, Political Communication Section, Spring 2003

Fully funded participant in NEH Summer Seminar, "The Post-socialist Experience," conducted by Valerie Bunce, Cornell University, Summer 2001

Institute for Turkish Studies, Georgetown University, Research Travel Grant for field work in Turkey, Summer 2002

George Soros - Open Society Fellowship for research in the archives located in Budapest, Hungary, Summer 2001.

The John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Research and Writing Grant, 2000-2001.

IREX Short Term Travel Grant, June 2000 Competition for research in Bosnia in April-May 2001

Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Italy Fellowship, Università de la Sapienza, Rome, 1989.

UNIVERSITY AWARDS

Global and Transnational Studies Research Circle Award (15,000 US dollars, part of the University of Florida Title VI Grant Award), 2003-2006

Global and Transnational Studies Small Research Grant, Summer 2003 and 2005

Departmental Research Award, Summer 2003 and 2006((

College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Travel Award, University of Florida, Fall 2003

Humanities Enhancement Fellowship, University of Florida, Summer 2002

Dumas Malone Fellowship, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1993-1994.

DuPont Fellowship, University of Virginia, 1989-1993.

C. Grove Haines Award for an outstanding M.A. Thesis, The Johns Hopkins University, 1989.

SAIS-Bologna Center Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987-89.

TEACHING AWARDS

Anderson Scholar Faculty Award, 2003, 2004, 2005

Nominated for the UF Alumni Association's Distinguished Alumni Professor Award, Spring 2005

Nominated for CLAS Advising Award, Fall 2004

University Scholar Mentor, University of Florida 2003-2004

INVITED CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL LECTURES

"Narration without Nation: Post-war Cinema in Bosnia and Herzegovina." Paper presented at the conference "Violence, Gender and the Cinematic Nation," Cornell University, March 26-28, 2009

"Secrets of States," Paper presented at the conference "Post Conflict Studies: Medicalization and Criminalization," Cornell University, November 14-15, 2008

"Islam, Women and the Former Yugoslavia." Invited lecture at Ferris State University, Big Rapids, Michigan, October 31, 2007

"Partitocracy: Anti-democratic Impulses of Political Parties." Invited presentation at the Seminar for Young Political Leaders from Bosnia and Herzegovina, organized by Konrad Adenauer Stiftung, Teslici, Bosnia and Herzegovina, June 9-10, 2007

Invited talks given at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY - "Crime and Sovereignty" (faculty seminar) and "Budapest, Istanbul, Sarajevo: On the Melancholy of Cities," (public talk), March 5, 2007

Invited participant at Mind Europe IV Meeting, annual gathering of public intellectuals - academics, writers, filmmakers from all over Europe - held at the DeBuren House of Dutch Culture in Brussels, Belgium, June 1-2, 2006

"Smoke Signals: Sovereignty and Illicit Trade," presented at the workshop "In the Interstices of Sovereignty," in Budapest, May 2006 (also workshop co-organizer)

"Merchants, Trade and Sovereignty in the Balkans," presented at Political Science faculty seminar, Central European University, Budapest, March 2006

"Merchants, Crime and Sovereignty in the Balkans." Paper presented at the conference "Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present," Center for 21^st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October 21-22,2005

"Taxation Policy and Informal Economies: the New Age of Empires?" Invited talk at Bogazici University, Turkey, Istanbul, June 8, 2005.

"Conundrums of Human Trafficking."  Paper presented at the workshop "Trafficking and Human Security in the Western Balkans," held at the Ford Institute for Human Security, University of Pittsburgh, May 13-15, 2005.

"Imperial Taxation." Paper presented at the conference "Colonial Experiences and Colonial Legacies: Comparing Eastern Europe and Sub-Saharan Africa," Cornell University, Ithaca, May 6-7, 2005.

"Propaganda and Empire: American Cultural Hegemony and the Bush Administration." Paper presented at the conference on "The Redefinition of American Power Under George W. Bush: Understanding US Hegemony in the World Order and Its Regional Dimensions," Observatoire sur les Etats-Unis, Chaire Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques, Université du Quebec Montreal, Canada, February 25-26, 2005

"On the Edges of Empires," Paper presented at the conference on "Transnationalism in the Balkans: The Emergence, Nature and Impact of Cross-National Linkages on an Enlarged and Enlarging Europe", London School of Economics, London, UK, November 26-27, 2004.

Invited discussant and round table participant at the conference on "Immigration, Ethnic Communities and Host Societies: Perspectives from Europe," organized by Florida Network for Global Studies, Florida International University, Miami, May 13-15, 2005.

"Balkan Tobacco Roads," paper presented at a conference "Clandestine Political Economy of War," Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, May 6, 2003

"Resurrecting Old Merchant Routes in the Balkans," Paper presented at the 4th Mediterranean Social and Political Research Meeting, Workshop on Mediterranean Merchants, European University, Florence, 19-23rd March, 2003 (also workshop co-director)

"Mediterranean Merchants," The Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy, March 17, 2003

"Representing Homeland Security: Hitchcock, Hollywood, and the State," University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 7, 2003

"From Virtual to Virtuous Security: US Media and War From Gulf War I to Gulf War II," Honors College Harry Schaleman Lecture, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, November 21, 2002

"Re-building the National Security State: US Media and War," Central European University, Budapest, November 15, 2002

Roundtable on the US Midterm Elections (with Richard Scher) ," Central European University, Budapest, Hungary November 14, 2002

Roundtable on the US Midterm Elections (with Richard Scher) ," University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary, November 13, 2002

"The Balkan Merchants: resurrecting the Old Trade Routes in Southeastern Europe," Einaudi Lectures, Seminar on "Remembering Europe," Cornell University, October 17, 2002

"Virtual Security from The Gulf War to Afghanistan, " (invited participant), conference on "Media Practice and Performance Across Cultures," University of Wisconsin-Madison, March 14-17 2002

"Hollowed or Destroyed: State in Yugoslavia after Yugoslavia," Program on International Studies in Planning, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, March 2001.

Invited participant, conference on "Communication and Cooperation Between Yugoslavia's Successor States: Efforts and Constraints of Post-Ethnonationalism," Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University, February 2-3, 2001

CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS

"Manufacturing Electoral Victories: Constructing Perceptions, Not Just Institutions "(co-authored with B. Moraski and R. Scher), American Political Science Association, Chicago, August 30-September 2, 2007

"Crime and Sovereign Power," International Studies Association, Chicago, February 28-March 3, 2007

Roundtable participant, conference theme panel on Social Responsibility and Difference, International Studies Association, Chicago February 28-March 3, 2007

Roundtable participant, panel on Cinematic Geopolitics, International Studies Association, Chicago February 28-March 3, 2007

"Promoting Democracy Abroad and Media Censorship at Home," COST A30 - European Media Scholars Network Meeting held in Budapest, June 16-17, 2006

"Limits of Representation." Paper presented at the workshop "Social Construction and International Studies," held at Florida International University, Miami, November 7,2005.

"Paradoxes of Sovereignty in the Balkans," International Studies Association - South, Miami, November 3-5, 2005

"On the Tobacco Roads of Southeastern Europe," International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004

"Balkan Trade Routes," CEEISA/ISA Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, June 26-28, 2003

"Balkan Merchants," International Studies Association, Portland, February 25-March 2, 2003

"Re-building the National Security State," American Political Science Association, Boston, August 29-September 2, 2002

"Forbidden Places, Tempting Spaces, and the Politics of Desire," International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002

"What Culture? Why Culture? Why Now?" International Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois, February 2001.

"State Without Politics/Politics Without the State: Reconstructing Bosnia After Dayton" (With V. P. Gagnon), International Conference of the Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 2000.

"'Hello, My Name Is...': Articulating Loneliness in a Digital Diaspora," Society for Cinema Studies Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2000.

"Broadcasting Genocide: Hollywood, Violence, and the Construction of War Zones" International Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, March 2000.

"World as a Studio: Politics of Space and Place in Global Media Industries," American Political Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1999.

"WarZones/CinemaScapes," Cinema and the City Conference, Dublin, Ireland, March, 1999.

"Introducing Reflexivity: Teaching IPE with James Cameron," International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., February 1999.

"Producing Difference: Why Culture Does (not) Matter?" Society for Cinema Studies Conference, San Diego, California, April 1998.

"Making of the Unwanted Colonies," International Studies Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, March 1998.

"Democratization in Eastern Europe and the NIS" (with Aaron Presnall), The Third International Conference of the New or Restored Democracies on Democracy and Development, sponsored by the United Nations, Bucharest, Romania, September 1997.

"New Institutionalism and Knowledge Industries," American Political Science Association, Washington, D.C., August 1997.

"Uncle Sam Goes To Siliwood: Of Hegemony, Mercantilism, Path Dependency and Disney," International Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 1997.

"Comprehending Social Change: Markets, Networks, Hierarchies," Northeast Political Science Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996.

"A Dying Godzilla: Hollywood and Japan in the Age of Global Entertainment," International Studies Association, San Diego, California, 1996.

"Controlled Environments as a Paradigm of Social Change," 20th Annual Conference on Social Theory, Politics and the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1994.

"Terrorism as a Spectacle," International Symposium on Politics and Terrorism in Modern Drama, Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 1988.

OTHER CONFERENCE ACTIVITY

Panel organizer and chair, "Bosnia:Inside/Outside of Post-Conflict Zones," International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 25-30, 2008

Chair and discussant, panel "Between Secular and Religious Identities," International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 25-30, 2008

Discussant, panel "Identifying Threats and Panaceas: U.S. Foreign Policy in the Mirror of Scholarship," International Studies Association, San Francisco, March 25-30, 2008

Discussant at the Annual Political Science Doctoral Student Conference, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary, April 13-14, 2006

Discussant, panel on "Global Governance", workshop on "Social Construction and International Studies," held at Florida International University, Miami, November 7, 2005.

Section chair, Foreign Policy, Florida Political Science Association, Florida State University, Tallahassee, March 12, 2005.

Invited discussant, panel on "Bosnia's Democratization and Nation-building Failures: Hegemonial Misperceptions?," International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004

Invited discussant, panel on "Beyond Power/Knowledge: Power and memory in World Politics," International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004

Invited chair and discussant, panel on "Framing the Discourse: Media and Movements," International Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004

Discussant, panel on "Critical Interpretations of Contemporary U.S. Hegemony," ISA-South, Gainesville, October 17-18, 2003

Discussant, panel on "The Spread of Democratic Norms," ISA-South, Gainesville, October 17-18, 2003

Invited discussant, panel on "Transnational Crime and Conflict in the Balkans," CEEISA/ISA Meeting, Budapest, Hungary June 26-28, 2003

Workshop Co-director (with Mine Eder, Bogazici University) "Mediterranean Merchants: Politics, Economics and Culture of Informal Trade Networks," European University Institute, Florence, March 19-23, 2003

Roundtable organizer and chair, "Our Enemies and US," International Studies Association, Portland, February 25-March 1, 2003

Discussant, panel "Effects of Technology and Globalization on Cultural Identity," American Political Science Association, August 29-September 2, 2002

Discussant, panel "Narrating War," International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002

Discussant, conference on "Knowledge and Power in International Relations," University of Florida, March 2002

Invited discussant, Theme Panel, "Social Sciences and Inequality," International Studies Association, Chicago, February, 2001.

Invited discussant, panel on "The Yugoslav War Film," Association for the Study of the Nationalities, Columbia University, New York, April 2000.

Panel organizer and chair, "Politics Beyond State/State Beyond Politics: Europe at the Millennium," International Conference of the Europeanists, Chicago, March 2000

Panel organizer, "Hollywood and the World: Site of Power, Sites of Resistance," American Political Science Association, Atlanta, September 1999.

Panel organizer and chair, "Making of the Unwanted Colonies," International Studies Association, Minnesota, 1998.

Discussant, panel on "Generating Economic Cooperation in an Anarchic World," International Studies Association, San Diego, California, 1996.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Reviewer for Oxford University Press, Cornell University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Temple University Press, Rowman and Littlefield, Palgrave-McMillan, Comparative Politics, Journal of Politics, International Organization, Review of International Political Economy, Journal of International Relations and Development, Comparative Literature, Theory and Event, National Academies, NSF

Editorial Board Member, Review of Radical Political Economy (1999-2005), Journal of International Relations and Development (2004-present)

CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY PRESENTATIONS

"Women in International Relations, presentation given at the forum on "Women in Academia," Women's History Month Celebrations, University of Florida, March 23, 2005

"Women Trafficking," presentation given to the Gainesville chapter of American Association of University Women, Gainesville, March 19, 2005

Keynote Speaker, VISA International Month Opening Ceremonies, University of Florida, March 15, 2005

Presentation "Women in Europe" Miami-Dade County K-12 Teachers Workshop, Outreach Program for the Center of European Studies, University of Florida, February 2005

Presentation, "Women Trafficking in Europe" Hillsborough County K-12 Teachers Workshop, Outreach Program for the Center of European Studies, University of Florida, February 2004

Presentation "The Impact of Culture and Ethics on the Present Situation around the World" to the Wedgworth Leadership Institute, IFAS, University of Florida, May, 2003

Commentator, "No Man's Land," (film about Bosnia) Pi Sigma Alpha Film Festival, Department of Political Science, University of Florida, February 4, 2003

Commentator, "Calling the Ghosts" (film on rape as war-crime), Concerned Citizens for Peace and Understanding Semi-Annual Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, April 2000.

Discussant, "Gabbeh" and "Imagining Islam", special film screenings in collaboration with the Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity as part of its Discussion Series on Islam, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, October 1999.

Keynote Speaker, Annual Banquet, League of Women Voters, Geneva, NY, June 1999.

Co-organizer (with Jodi Dean), panel discussion, "Star Wars, Episode One: Is Phantom Menace Racist?" Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, June 1999.

Discussant, panel on "Globalization and Media," Globalization and Gender Conference, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, May 1999.

Invited Speaker, "How the West Has Won?" URPE Regional Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, May 1999.

Panelist, "Kosovo: Can Bombs Bring Peace?," Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, April 1999.

"Maps, Photographs and Construction of Identity," respondent to Michael Sells (Haveford College), Colloquium on the Bosnian Conflict, Brown College, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February, 1997.

CAMPUS AND COMMUNITY SERVICE

Member, Faculty Advisory Board, Transnational and Global Studies Center, Fall 2007-presentMember - Rhodes, Mitchell, Marshall Scholarship Selection Committee, Fall 2005

Member - Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee, Fall 2005

Member - College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, 2004-2006, University of Florida

Mentor, Women's Leadership Council and the Mentoring Program, 2004-2005, University of Florida

Preview Advisor, University of Florida, Summer 2003, 2004, 2005

Member - Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee Member, University of Florida, Fall 2004

Member - Robert J. Woods Scholarship Selection Committee, Center for European Studies, Cornell University, Fall 1999

Member - Human Rights Commission, City of Geneva, NY 1998-2000

Member - Independent Film Selection Panel, Virginia Festival of American Film, University of Virginia, 1995-1998

DEPARTMENT SERVICE

Chair, International Relations Field, 2007-2008

Member, Strategic Planning Committee, 2008-2009

Member, Ehrlich Chair Search Committee, 2007-2008

Member, Best Undergraduate Thesis Award Committee, Spring 2008

Member, Chair Advisory Board, 2007-2008

Member - African Politics Search Committee, Fall 2005

Undergraduate advisor, Fall 2005

Member and Chair - Chair Advisory Committee, 2004-2005

Member - Best Undergraduate Paper Award Committee, 2005

Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha Chapter of the University of Florida (Fall 2002 - present)

Member - Best Honors Thesis Committee, 2004

Member - Undergraduate Committee, 2003-2004

Member-at-Large - Chair Advisory Committee, 2002-2003

Member - Political Theory Search Committee, Fall 2002

Member - Best Graduate Student Paper Selection Committee, Spring 2002

Member - Governance Committee, 2001- 2002

Library Liaison, 2001-2003

LANGUAGES

Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian --native

Italian -- fluent

French, Spanish -- reading knowledge

Hungarian - elementary