Curriculum Vitae

Publications

  • historical anthropology of socialism
  • humanitarianism, borders, refugee camps
  • Europeanization, nationalism, the state, policy
  • “race”, class, gender and sexuality
  • political imagination, activism, citizenship
  • histories of ethnology and cultural anthropology
  • Germany, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Europe

Racial Socialism – Racialization and Value in Socialist Red Cross Societies (ERC Consolidator Grant, 2026-2031)

ReDigIm: Redistributive Imaginaries: Digitalisation, culture, and prosocial contribution  (CHANSE, 2023-2025)

PhD students

Dafina Gashi, Exploring the Interplay Between Movement, Neoliberalism, and Gender in Kosovo (working title)

Roman Olshevskiy, Politicized Masculinity: Self-Improvement Lifestyles and Political Imagination among European Young Men (working title)

Miriam Schickler, Multisensorial Ways of Remembering (working title)

Elena Kerdikoshvili, Everyday Witnessing and Witnessing Everyday Socio-Environmental Change along the German Baltic Sea Coast (working title)

Second Supervision

Ćurak Hana (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Silvy Chakkalakal, University of Zurich)

Frank Cora (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Friedemann Kreuder, JGU Mainz)

Karavasilev Kostadin (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Schulz, Münster University)

Kiščenko Diana (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Klavs Sedlenieks, Riga Stradins University)

Püsök Imola (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Regina Bendix, University of Göttingen, Prof. Dr. Victoria Hegner, University of Jena)

Rexha Jeta (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Thomas Stodulka, Münster University)

Saylak Şeyma (first supervisor: Prof. Dr. Sabine Hess, University of Goettingen)

Jakob-Welder-Weg 20
55128 Mainz
Philosophicum II (Neubau), 2nd floor
Room 02.306

Tel.: +49 6131 39-30339
E-Mail: carna.brkovic@uni-mainz.de

Office hours
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  1. MA HS. Zeitkonzepte, Machtstrukturen und kulturale Deutungsmuster: Exkursion zum 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) in Kiel
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
  2. MA K. Kolloquium (2019)
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
  3. S. Interdisziplinär I: ‘Race’, racialization and Europe
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
  4. S. Interdisziplinär II: ‘Race’, racialization and Europe
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
  5. S. Theatralität – Performativität – Medialität: ‘Race’, racialization and Europe
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
  6. Ü. Fachwissenschaftliche Spezialisierung: Exkursion zum DGEKW-Kongress in Kiel
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
  7. VL. Grundlagen der Kulturanthropologie/Europäischen Ethnologie (Winter)
    Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic

WiSe 2025/26