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OGNJEN KOJANIC Department of of Pittsburgh 3302 WWPH 15260 Pittsburgh, PA USA [email protected]

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EDUCATION University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA In progress PhD (Expected 2020), Anthropology Advisor: Robert M. Hayden

Central European University; Budapest, Hungary 2014 MA, and Social Anthropology Advisor: Don Kalb

University of ; Belgrade, 2013 BA, and Anthropology Advisor: Ildiko Erdei

FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDS 2018 IDRF Photo Competition, Photo Essay Prize (Staff Pick), Social Science Research Council 2016 Andrew Mellon Predoctoral Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh 2016 Graduate Student Paper Prize, Society for the Anthropology of 2016 Midwest Slavic Graduate Student Essay Prize, Midwest Slavic Association 2015 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Teaching Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh 2014 Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences Graduate Fellowship, University of Pittsburgh 2012-2015 Young Talents Fund “Dositeja,” Ministry of Youth and Sports, Serbia 2011-2012 Undergraduate Exchange Program, Open Society Foundations 2010-2013 Municipality of Lapovo, Serbia 2010-2012 Ministry of Education and Science, Serbia

RESEARCH GRANTS 2017 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation 2017 International Dissertation Research Fellowship, Social Science Research Council 2017 Klinzing Grant for Dissertation Research, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh 2016 Klinzing Grant for Pre-Dissertation Research, European Studies Center, University of Pittsburgh 2016 Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh (declined) 2015 Pre-Dissertation Summer Research Grant, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 2014 MA Research Grant, Central European University Foundation

JOURNAL ARTICLES 2017 Kojanić, Ognjen. “‘You Can’t Weed Out Corruption’: Railway Workers’ Assessments of the State in Post-Socialist Serbia.” Glasnik Etnografskog instituta ​ SANU, 65 (1): 47–63. ​ 2015 Kojanić, Ognjen. “‘Language Policing’ and the Fight against Social Inequality in ​ ​ ​ ​ an Anti-Capitalist Organization.” Sintezis, 7 (1): 1-19. ​ ​ 2015 Kojanic, Ognjen. “Nostalgia as a Practice of the Self in Post-Socialist Serbia.” Canadian Slavonic Papers : Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, 57 (3-4): 195-212. ​

CHAPTERS IN EDITED VOLUMES Forthcoming Kojanić, Ognjen. “Theory from the Peripheries: What Can the Anthropology of Postsocialism Offer to European Anthropology.” In Common Grounds? Locating, ​ Contesting and (Not) Defining - (edited by Damián O. ​ Martinez and Francisco Martínez). Oxford: Berghahn Books.

ESSAYS AND COMMENTARIES 2012 Kojanić, Ognjen. Monet's Haystacks: Situated Knowledge, Creation, and Revolution. Blesok / Shine – literature & other arts, 15 (87). ​ ​

BOOK REVIEWS 2012 Kojanić, Ognjen. What can economic scholarship learn from feminism? (Book review essay on “The End of Capitalism [As We Knew It]” and “A Postcapitalist Politics” by J.K. Gibson-Graham). Genero, 16: 177-186. (In Serbian) ​ ​

BLOG POSTS 2018 Kojanic, Ognjen. “Flipping the Transition Script.” Anthropology News website, ​ ​ April 13, 2018.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2018 ‘The Important Thing is that they Have Survived:’ Affect and Workplace Culture in a Croatian Worker-owned Company. “9th InASEA Conference: Emotions, Senses and Affect in the Context of Southeast Europe,” University of ; Zadar, ; September 27-30. 2018 Interests all the way down: Class differences in a worker-owned company. “EASA Biennial Conference 2018: Staying, Moving, Settling,” ; Stockholm, Sweden; August 14-17. 2018 What Does ‘Elite’ and ‘From Below’ Mean in a Worker-Owned Company? “Shipyards as transforming workplaces: methods of grasping shop-floor experiences ‘from below,’” Institute for East European , Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies, and Gdynia City Museum; Gdynia, Poland; June 28-30. 2018 ‘We’re All Here for the Salary:’ The Legacy of Socialist Labor and Debates Regarding Wages in a Worker-Owned Company in Post-socialist Croatia. “Workers beyond Socialist Glorification and Post-Socialist Disavowal: New Perspectives on Eastern European Labour History,” University of Vienna; Vienna, ; May 24-27. 2018 Self-Management as Property Disruption: Challenges and Possibilities of Worker-Ownership in Postsocialist Croatia. “Post/social/isms,” Ephemera journal annual conference, Gólya Community House; Budapest, Hungary; May 24-25. 2018 Flipping the Transition Script: How Various Actors Shaped Mediatized Narratives of Social Struggles in the Case of ITAS Prvomajska. “Engagement for Social Change: Moving beyond Resistance,” Institute for and Social Theory, ; Belgrade, Serbia; April 19-21. 2017 Post-colonial Theory, Post-socialist Theory — and Theory from the Peripheries? “Dialoguing ‘Between the Posts:’ Post-socialist and post-/decolonial perspectives on domination, hierarchy and resistance in South-Eastern Europe,” ; Belgrade, Serbia; September 22-23. 2017 ‘You Can’t Weed Out Corruption:’ Railway Workers’ Assessments of the State in Post-Socialist Serbia. “The Informal and the Formal in Times of Crisis: Ethnographic Insights,” University of Peloponnese; Corinth, Greece; July 7-9. 2017 What can the Anthropology of Postsocialism offer to the Anthropology of European Peripheries? “The 2017 Annual Soyuz Symposium: Embracing Confusion and Questioning Clarity: on Matters of Method in Postsocialist Studies,” Russian and East European Institute, Indiana University; Bloomington, IN; March 3-4. 2016 Railway Workers' Memories of Geographical and Social Mobility in Socialist . “2016 ASEEES Convention,” Washington, DC; November, 17-20. 2016 Political Aspects of Worker-Ownership: The Case of ITAS in Neoliberal Croatia. “Central Slavic Conference: 55th Annual Meeting,” Saint Louis University; St. Louis, MO; October 21-23. 2016 Countering Dispossession with Worker-Ownership: The Case of ITAS in Neoliberal Croatia. “EASA Biennial Conference 2016: Anthropological Legacies and Human Futures,” University of Milano-Bicocca; Milan, Italy; July 20-23. 2016 Countering Dispossession with Worker-Ownership: The Case of ITAS in Neoliberal Croatia. “(Conflicting) Political Ontologies and Implications for Transformative Action,” CPERN mid-term conference, Institute of Labour Studies and ; Ljubljana, Slovenia; May 27-28. 2016 Countering the Exclusion of the Working Class Through Worker-Ownership in Neoliberal Croatia. “Grad Expo,” University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA; March 24. 2016 Countering the Exclusion of the Working Class Through Worker-Ownership in Neoliberal Croatia. “Insiders and Outsiders: Belonging and Identity in Eastern Europe,” 13th Annual REES/GOSECA Graduate Student Conference; University of Pittsburgh; Pittsburgh, PA; March 18-20. 2015 ‘I'd Like to Buy a Small Train and Rent It’: (Im)mobility and Hope(lessness) in Post-Socialist Serbia. “Hope and (Im)mobility in the Pursuit of Change,” Graduate Conference, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Central European University; Budapest, Hungary; June 12-13. 2015 ‘I'd Like to Buy a Small Train and Rent It’: Restoration of Capitalism and Memories of Socialism among the Railway Workers in Serbia. “Shifting Territories: Historical Legacies and Social Change,” Annual Soyuz Symposium, University of Washington; Seattle, WA; February 28 – March 1. 2015 Flux and (Im)mobility: The Nostalgic Narratives of Serbian Railway Workers. “ in Flux: Territory, Resources, & Borders in Eastern Europe & Eurasia,” 12th Annual Conference of the Graduate Organization for the Study of Europe and Central Asia; University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA; February 20-22. 2014 Nostalgia as a Negative Blueprint: Practices of the Self in Post-Self-Management Serbia. “Paradise Found, or Paradise Lost? Nostalgia, Culture and Identity in Central and Eastern Europe,” Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense; Paris, ; May 29-30. 2014 Disciplined, Dispossessed and/or Disorganised: Three Cases from Post-Socialist Serbia. “May Day School,” Institute for Labour Studies; Ljubljana, Slovenia; April 30-May 3. 2011 To Think That Emperor Has No Clothes. “New Image of the ,” Macedonian Centre PEN International; , Macedonia; May 20-22.

INVITED LECTURES 2017 Politika i ekonomija ili politička ekonomija u antropološkom proučavanju vlasništva [Politics and the economy or political economy in the anthropological study of ownership]. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; June 14. 2017 Šta se desilo i kako pisati o tome? [What Happened and How to Write about It?]. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; June 13. 2016 ‘Da kupim jedan vozić pa da ga rentiram’: Sećanja na socijalizam u neoliberalnoj Srbiji [‘I'd Like to Buy a Small Train and Rent It’: Memories of Socialism in Neoliberal Serbia]. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; Feb. 13. 2015 ‘Nadziranje jezika’ i borba protiv društvene nejednakosti u grupi Hrana Ne Oružje [‘Language Policing’ and the Fight against Social Inequality in a Food Not Bombs group]. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; July 8. 2014 Everything You Wanted to Know About Capitalism But Were Afraid to Ask the Economists. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; Aug. 3. 2013 Lepa stvar u vezi sa kulturom je što je svi imaju [The Nice Thing About Culture Is That Everyone Has It]. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; July 29. 2012 Crno-belo: Primeri (de)konstruisanja rase [Black and White: Examples of the (De)Construction of Race]. Petnica Science Center; Valjevo, Serbia; July 25.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE 2016 Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh The Archaeologist Looks at Death 2015 Teaching Fellow, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

RELEVANT EXPERIENCE August 2018 - Present Museum of Yugoslavia, Belgrade, Serbia Expert consultant for the section “Self-management” within the new Museum of Yugoslavia permanent exhibition. Tasked with writing an article on self-management for the companion to the exhibition and helping the curator who is in charge of designing that section of the exhibition. June 2017 - Present Croatia; fieldwork Research with ITAS workers in Ivanec and the activists from the Organization for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization in Zagreb on worker-ownership, specifically the difference between property rights and ownership as ideas and practices in the post-socialist transformation of economic and political relations. June - July 2016 Croatia; fieldwork Pilot research with ITAS workers in Ivanec and the activists from the Organization for Workers’ Initiative and Democratization in Zagreb on worker-ownership and left-wing political activism in Croatia. May - July 2015 Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia & Herzegovina; fieldwork Pilot research with workers from three companies (Jugoprevoz in Kruševac, Serbia; ITAS in Ivanec, Croatia; Dita in Tuzla, Bosnia & Herzegovina) on the experience of post-socialist property transformation and the workers’ struggle for collective ownership over their companies. April 2014 Serbia; fieldwork Research with railway workers in Zaječar on post-socialist nostalgia and apathy. July 2013 - Present Petnica Science Center, Valjevo, Serbia Senior Associate at Petnica in the anthropology and social science seminars and Petnica International summer school; leading workshops on various social science topics and supervising high-school students' anthropology research projects. Sept. 2011 - April 2012 Athens, GA, USA; fieldwork Research with the Athens “Food Not Bombs” group on alternative economic practices (including organizing “Really Really Free Markets”), the production of urban space, and ethical subjectivity. Jan. 2010 - June 2013 Petnica Science Center, Valjevo, Serbia Student Assistant at Petnica in the anthropology and social science seminars; tutoring anthropology students, helping in the organization and running of the anthropology seminar.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE 2015-16 Website Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh 2014-15 Brown Bag Committee, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh

LANGUAGE SKILLS Serbian / BCMS (native) English (fluent) French (reading) Italian (reading)

MISCELLANEOUS His essays and op-eds have appeared on several websites (Radnička prava, Peščanik, Firstpost). He is an avid podcast listener and moviegoer.