Azra Hromadžić
Associate Professor, Anthropology
O'Hanley Faculty Scholar
Aging Studies Institute
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
Azra
Hromadžić is a cultural
anthropologist with research interests in the anthropology of international
policy in the context of state-making in postwar Bosnia and Herzegovina. Her
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. The book
was translated into Serbian in 2017 (Samo Bosne nema: Mladi i građenje
države u posleratnoj Bosni i Hercegovini. Beograd: Biblioteka XX Vek).
Several years ago, Azra initiated a new project that
ethnographically researches aging, care and social services in the context of
postwar and postsocialist Bosnia and Herzegovina. She co- edited (with Monika Palmberger) a volume
titled Care Across Distance:
Ethnographic Explorations of Aging and Migration which
is forthcoming with Berghahn Books.
Azra spent the spring semester of 2017 as a Fulbright
Scholar in Bosnia-Herzegovina where she conducted research and taught at the
University of Bihać.
This experience propelled her to begin a new research project on water politics
and pedagogies, political imagination and infrastructure in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Azra is the recipient of the 2017 Daniel Patrick
Moynihan Award for Teaching and Research, the 2017 Excellence in Graduate
Education Faculty Recognition Award and the 2014 Meredith Professors’ Teaching
Recognition Award.