Dr. Ana Mijić, M.A.
Dr. Ana Mijić, M.A.
Project Supervisor
Ana Mijić holds the position of Tenure-Track Professor of Qualitative Social Research at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. Her research is theoretically grounded in the sociology of knowledge and centers on identity formation in times of crisis, particularly under conditions of war and (forced) migration.
She studied Sociology and Political Science (focus: International Relations and Peace and Conflict Studies) at the University of Tübingen. After graduation, she worked as a research assistant at the Berghof Foundation (2005–2007) and began her doctorate in Sociology at the University of Wuppertal. In 2007, she joined the University of Vienna, where she completed her doctorate on postwar identity transformations in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Throughout her academic career, she has been a fellow at the IFK International Research Center for Cultural Studies in Vienna (10/2011–06/2012) and the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts & Humanities Research Institute at Trinity College Dublin (09/2012–06/2013). From 2022 to 2025, she served as Visiting Professor at the Nationalism Studies Department at Central European University (CEU).
Since earning her doctoral degree, she has worked on several research projects. She was Principal Investigator of Postwar Diaspora(s): Cosmopolitan Nationalism, funded by the FWF Hertha Firnberg Programme (2015–2021). Together with Michael Parzer, she served as Co-Principal Investigator of The Art of Arriving – Reframing Refugee Integration, funded by the FWF 1000 Ideas Programme (2021–2023). In 2024, she led the project Nach/Hause (Coming Home), funded by the City of Vienna (MA7). Continuing her exploration of identity formation under conditions of crisis, she launched her latest project, Creating Identity out of War and Migration, together with her research team in the spring of 2025.
Mail: ana.mijic@univie.ac.at
Phone: +43-1-4277-49215
Slađana Adamović BA MA
Slađana Adamović BA MA
Scientific Staff
Slađana Adamović is a social anthropologist (University of Vienna) and social scientist. She is currently a pre-doctoral researcher at the department of Sociology, working on the research project “Creating Identity out of War and Migration”. Her research focuses on intersectional migration and gender studies. Previously, she worked as a scientific stuff for the department of Architecture and Spatial Planing at the Technical University of Vienna for the EU research project EXIT. In addition, she worked as a social scientist for the applied research institute Search and Shape and for the decentral research network Logische Phantasie Lab. She is also co-founder of the digital Museum of Survivors, which addresses war experiences of children and adolescents in Austria.
DI Jelena Jokić-Bornstein, BSc MA
DI Jelena Jokić-Bornstein, BSc MA
Scientific Staff
Jelena Jokić-Bornstein is a migration researcher specializing in comparative qualitative research on (post-conflict) diasporas, cultural production, integration and social cohesion. She holds Master’s degrees in Development Studies from the University of Vienna and in Architecture from the Technical University of Vienna. Her doctoral research, conducted within the project Creating Identity out of War and Migration, explores identity (re)negotiation in Bosnian diasporic art by comparing creative communities in Vienna and Chicago. Alongside her academic work, she writes for art publications and is the founder of YUGOGIRL*, a curatorial initiative showcasing ex-Yugoslav feminist art through a range of non-academic formats.
Emina Zoletic, MA
Emina Zoletic, MA
CEEPUS Fellow
Emina Zoletic, a doctoral student at the University of Warsaw, Centre for research social memories, examines the intergenerational transmission of war memory in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Bosnian diaspora in the EU and the USA. She is currently doing a CEEPUS fellowship (March-June) at the University of Vienna Institute of Sociology. She was a Fulbright visiting researcher at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, New York, from 2023 to 2024. She leverages her background in psychology and a decade of clinical experience to focus on families from Sarajevo whose older members survived the war in Bosnia, and their children born after the war.