Dr. Natasa Miskovic
Associate & Visiting (Researcher)
Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät
Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Zentrale Dienste

Associate & Visiting (Researcher)

Departement Gesellschaftswissenschaften
Rheinsprung 21
4051 Basel
Schweiz

natasa.miskovic@unibas.ch

Nataša Mišković is leader of the SNSF project "SIBA – A Visual Approach to Explore Everyday Life in Turkish and Yugoslav Cities, 1920s and 1930s". She studied history, public law and French at the University of Basel, finishing with a PhD thesis on the history of Belgrade and its change from an Ottoman military and administrative center to the capital of the Serbian Kingdom. After several years as an archivist in an international enterprise, she started research for her second book on the personal relationship between Tito, Nehru and Nasser and the founding of the Non-Aligned Movement at the Department for Eastern European History, University of Zurich. She was a fellow at the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute for Advanced Study in New Delhi and at the Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz. In the winter term 2013/14, she substituted the chair of Southeastern European History at the Ludwig-Maximilian-University of Munich.

Memberships
  • Swiss Society for Histoy
  • Forum for Eastern Europe Basel
  • BASO Basel Working Circle for Southeast Europe
  • International Association für Southeast European Anthropology InASEA, Regensburg
  • Udruženje za društvenu istoriju/Association for Social History, Belgrad
  • History of Southeastern Europe, 19th and 20th centuries
  • Nationalism, socialism, communism
  • Decolonization and the Cold War in Asia and the Middle East
  • Life World
  • Gender
  • Migration
  • Visual history