- 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
- President of SIEF (from 2025)
- Member of the Board of SIEF (2021-2025)
- Senior Member of the Editorial Boards of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Anthropology (2022-2025)
- Co-Chair of the DGEKW-Kommission Geschlechterforschung und Queere Anthropologie (2023-2025)
- Member of the Editorial Board of Political and Legal Anthropology Review PoLAR (2019-2022)
- Secretary of the AAAs Society for the Anthropology of Europe (2020-2022)
- Co-founder and co-organizer of the Anthropology of Humanitarianism Network of the EASA (2018-2020)
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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MA HS. Zeitkonzepte, Machtstrukturen und kulturale Deutungsmuster: Exkursion zum 45. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Empirische Kulturwissenschaft (DGEKW) in Kiel
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MA K. Kolloquium (2019)
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic -
S. Interdisziplinär I: ‘Race’, racialization and Europe
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic -
S. Interdisziplinär II: ‘Race’, racialization and Europe
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic -
S. Theatralität – Performativität – Medialität: ‘Race’, racialization and Europe
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic -
Ü. Fachwissenschaftliche Spezialisierung: Exkursion zum DGEKW-Kongress in Kiel
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic -
VL. Grundlagen der Kulturanthropologie/Europäischen Ethnologie (Winter)
Instructor: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Carna Brkovic
WiSe 2025/26