Azra Hromadžić
Associate Professor, Anthropology
O'Hanley Faculty Scholar
Degree
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (U.S.A.) 2009
Specialties
Political anthropology; ethno-political violence and post-conflict reconciliation; socialism and post-socialism; gender; youth cultural practices; social policy and welfare; aging, care, and responsibility; and the Balkans.
Courses
Syracuse University (2010-present)
- Anthropological Theory
- Peoples and Cultures of the World
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- Women, War and Peace
- Peace and Conflict in the Balkans
- Violence and Reconciliation
- Love/Care/Abandonment
- First Year Forum: Femininity and Masculinity go to College
- Citizenship Across Cultures and Societies
- Global Citizenship
Univerisity of Bihać, Fulbright Visiting Professor (Spring 2017)
- American Civilization: Contemporary American Society
University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh (2007-2010)
- Introduction to Anthropology
- Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
- American Ethnography
- World Ethnography
- Women, War, and Peace
University of Pennsylvania (2004)
- The Anthropology of Violence and Reconciliation
- Exploring the Majors: A Summer Experience. Summer School for High School Students.
Diplomatic Academy of Vienna, European International Relations Summer School (2004)
Biography
I am a cultural anthropologist with research interests in the anthropology of international policy in the context of state-making in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. My book Citizens of an Empty Nation: Youth and State-making in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina (University of Pennsylvania Press) is an ethnographic investigation of the internationally directed postwar intervention policies in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the response of local people, especially youth, to these policy efforts. My research documents how the ethnic emphasis of the international integration policies and programs is working in practice to undermine the possibility for the emergence of common, cross-ethnic association in the Bosnian state. Instead, the internationally-designed state-making and peace-building project has perpetuated the materialization of what I call an "empty nation" in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Recently I initiated a new project which ethnographically researches aging in the context of postwar and postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. By focusing on aging as an analytic with which to capture the altering circumstances surrounding post-Yugoslav responsibility, social policy, and care, I portray the unique role that aging plays in shaping the fields of labor, hope, desire, and expectations about postsocialist, postwar and European subjectivities, citizenship regimes, identifications and futures.