Tamara Pavasovic Trost

Tamara Pavasovic Trost holds a permanent position at the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. Her research interests include nationalism and ethnic identity broadly, with a geographical focus on the Western Balkans, and qualitative methods in social sciences. She is working on several projects, including the interplay between class and ethnic identity, sports nationalism and symbolic nation-building, the influence of institutions on collective memory and everyday identity, Europeanization, and LGBT issues, with a geographical focus on the Western Balkans. She received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Harvard University and an M.A. in Political Science from Syracuse University. She has previously worked at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz, and was a Fung Global Fellow at the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies. Her most recent publication is a co-edited volume “Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe: Beyond Ethnicity” (Routledge, 2018). Professor Pavasovic Trost will join BIEE for the 2024 spring semester.