Sharing the Stage
April 03, 2014
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4900431-sharing-the-stage?from_search=true Sharing the Stage: Biography and Gender in Western Civilization, Volume I by Slaughter, Melissa K. Bokovoy…
Melissa Bokovoy
Research Statement: My research focuses on how the peoples of Yugoslavia, over the span of 90 years, have lived under various regimes with fundamentally different political and socio-economic structures, and how they adapted to, changed, and resisted these regimes. My published archival research, conducted in Yugoslavia and its successor states, has examined the ways in which the twentieth century regimes in Yugoslavia, their political elites, structures, institutions, and ideologies, as well as their state and nation building processes and strategies, have interacted and impacted the society over which they ruled. I also examine how different groups within society--peasants, women, soldiers, and ethnic groups--reacted to political processes, informed state and nation building strategies, and influenced and shaped policies, identities, and ideologies. Four projects have occupied me for the last decade: 1) Research of and writing on acts of remembrance and commemoration in interwar Serbia and Yugoslavia; 2) The collaborative publication of two sets of textbooks/readers(4 volumes) for use in Western Civilization and World History courses; 3) Co-directing an international team of scholars researching and writing on “Kosovo under Autonomy, 1974-1990” for “The Scholars' Initiative: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies;” and 4) Participation in a comparative research project on the collectivization of agriculture. Profile: Professor Bokovoy teaches courses on eastern and western Europe in the twentieth century, as well as the western civilization surveys. Topics of particular interest in her courses are the First and Second World Wars and nationalism in the modern world. Her main area of research is the history of the south Slavs (Yugoslavia) in the twentieth century. She has primarily worked on the post World War II period, focusing on the social and political relationships between Yugoslav society and its Communist party-state. She is currently working on a project entitled: “The Politics of Commemoration: Memory and Mourning in Serbia and Croatia, 1919-1941.”
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