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Planning Central and Southeastern European Capital Cities in the Age of Nationalism
I am coediting a book on urban planning projects in Central European and Balkan cities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries with Tanja Damljanovic, visiting professor of architectural history at the University of Texas at Arlington. Tentatively titled Planning Central and Southeastern European Capital Cities in the Age of Nationalism, this volume will discuss the cities which became the cultural and political capitals of the nations and nation-states which were constructed in the wake of the Ottoman and Hapsburg Empires in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. More generally, this book hopes to fill a major gap in contemporary urban studies literature by offering a comprehensive comparative study of the planning histories of major Central and Southeastern European cities during this time period. |
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Other Current Research Projects
The Bosnian Pavilion | I am examining the Bosnian Pavilion for the 1900 World’s Fair in Paris and its relationship to Great Power politics, Austrian Imperialism, Alfonse Mucha’s pan-slavism, and traditional Bosnian architecture.
Reconstruction and Reconciliation | I am exploring the tenuous link between the reconstruction of cultural heritage and the process of reconciliation in post-conflict societies.
Sarajevo - Mostar - Banja Luka | I am adapting my dissertation into a comparative study that explores the relationships between urban and national identities and between nationalism and postwar reconstruction in three Bosnian cities.
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Dissertation Research
My dissertation examined how the postwar reconstruction process in the Bosnian city of Mostar in the past decade was shaped by competing national identities. If you are interested in reading part of my dissertation, or seeing a detailed list of its contents, click here. |
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Brief Bio |
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In January 2007 I received my PhD in the History of Architecture and Urbanism from Cornell University's College of Architecture, Art, and Planning.
Beginning in August 2007 I will be an Assistant Professor in the College of Architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.
My general research field is the history of modern European cities, but since my work is issue driven, it has taken me beyond the borders of the European continent and beyond the temporal boundaries of the 19th and 20th centuries. The issues I am interested in revolve around the relationships between architecture, cities, memory, identity and politics.
To see an html and downloadable version of my CV, click here. |
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