Doctoral Candidate in Anthropology and American Culture
About
I am interested in youth language practices, the occidentalization of the Western Balkans, and the sociolinguistics of language separatism, specifically the fragmentation of Serbo-Croatian into four new standard languages: Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian, and Montenegrin. Currently I am conducting my fieldwork in Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina, a fascinating city with a long history of inter-ethnic cohabitation. Apart from the inter-ethnic dynamics, many youth-led and youth-centered initiatives make Mostar an ideal site for exploring how young people in Bosnia and Herzegovina (re)make their identities through their speech practices.
Research interests: Semiotics, language separatism, language ideologies, linguistic purism, migration, race and ethnicity, diasporas, youth language pratices, youth culture
