Center for EU Cooperation

Faculty of Philosophy University of Belgrade

Our Team

Prof. Haris Dajč

Founder and the Head of the Center

After graduating from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy (2007), he completed his Master’s (2008) and Doctoral (2015) degrees in Modern History at the Faculty of Philosophy. In addition, he completed his Master’s studies at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2010). 

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Prof. Nikola Samardžić

Founder of the Center

Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University in Belgrade. From 1985, research assistant with the Institute of History, Belgrade, and from 1990 with the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Full professor since 2009. 

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Prof. Isidora Janjić

Member

Isidora Jarić holds PhD in Sociology. Full Professor on Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.  Was employed at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory 2001-2007, since 2007 she works at the Faculty of Philosophy.

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Dr Maja Vasilejvić, senior research associate

Member

Sociologist, musicologist and historian with extensive experience in cultural projects  management on heritage, minorities and war studies. Maja holds PhD in sociology and MA in musicology. She is employed as a Senior research associate at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.

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Haris Dajč

After graduating from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy (2007), he completed his Master’s (2008) and Doctoral (2015) degrees in Modern History at the Faculty of Philosophy. In addition, he completed his Master’s studies at the UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies (2010). He also conducted numerous study visits, professional training courses, and research activities in London, Venice, Padua, Krakow, and Israel. His research interests include the Balkans and the Mediterranean from the 18th to the 21st century, the history of Belgrade, the position of Jews in Yugoslavia after 1945, and the development of populism in the countries of the former Yugoslavia. He is Nahum Goldman, Coimbra group alumni. He has been a visiting professor in Krakow (Jagiellonian University, Institute of European Studies) from 2019, 2021 – 2025; and in Poznan (Adam Mickiewicz University) in 2022 – 2023. He was on a postdoc research stay in Padova in 2015 (Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Geografiche e dell’Antichita’), and in Krakow in 2020 (Institute of European Studies). He was a Scientist in Charge of the H2020 project Populist Rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism – Poprebel (2019-2022). He was a Scientist in Charge of Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network FATIGUE – Delayed Transformational Fatigue in Central & Eastern Europe: Responding to the Rise of Illiberalism/Populism (2018-2021). He published five books: The Dusk of the Old Mediterranean: The Ionian Islands 1774−1815 (2016), The Houses of Belgrade Jews 1920-1941 (2018), Sava Slope: Following the Path of Belgrade Urban Development 19-20th century (2019); The East Mediterranean: Great Britain and France in the Levant 1796-1807 (2020); Malta 1792-1805: The beginning of the British dominance in the Mediterranean (2025).

haris.dajc@f.bg.ac.rs

Nikola Samardžić

Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University in Belgrade. From 1985, research assistant with the Institute of History, Belgrade, and from 1990 with the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade. Full professor since 2009. Faculty council president 2009-2012, History department chief in charge 2012-2015, CEEPUS Network Ethics and Politics in the European Context coordinator for the University in Belgrade 2009-2023. Expertize in early modern history, established courses related to the US identity and religious studies, and history of jazz. Research and professional development in France, Italy, Spain, USA and Croatia, archive in Dubrovnik. Fulbright scholar in 2003, New York University. Speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian. Books: France and Turkey, Charles V, History of Spain, Identity of Spain, Second Twentieth Century, Limes, Cultural History of Belgrade – Eighteenth Century, Second Cold War, Early Modern History. Most distinguished projects: COST Action IS1301. New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe; FATIGUE: Delayed Transformational Fatigue in Central and Eastern Europe (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Innovative Training Network); Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism (Horizon). Acta Historiae Medicinae editor in chief since 2013 (journal founded in 1961).

nikola.samardzic@f.bg.ac.rs

Isidora Jarić

Isidora Jarić holds PhD in Sociology. Full Professor on Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade.  Was employed at the Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory 2001-2007, since 2007 she works at the Faculty of Philosophy. She finished BA in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade in 2000, and the MPhill at the joint programme between the department for Gender and Culture, Central European University, Budapest, HU and Open University, London, UK. She obtained PhD in 2012 at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Throughout her carrier she has been involved in many internationally and nationally supported research and capacity building projects. Since the focus of her professional expertise are the issues of education, gender and health her research are predominantly concentrate on the minority, marginal and vulnerable groups. She has been a consultant on a considerable number or projects, as well as the team leader of several national and international research projects.

dorajaric@gmail.com

Maja Vasilejvić

Sociologist, musicologist and historian with extensive experience in cultural projects  management on heritage, minorities and war studies. Maja holds PhD in sociology and MA in musicology. She is employed as a Senior research associate at the History Department of the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. Her research is at the intersection of musicology, history and sociology, with a focus on the relationship between culture and politics. Beside dedicated work on WWI and WWII, and Cold War, she expanded her scope of interest to the phenomenon of populism in the territory of the former Yugoslavia on the international project Horizon 2020 “POPREBEL Populist rebellion in Eastern and Central Europe after the Fall of Berlin Wall”. Also, since 2019, she has been working on a project of digitizing Jewish heritage in Vojvodina. She published three monographs: Film music in SFRY: between politics and poetics (Belgrade, Hera edu, 2016). For the second in two languages, Serbian in 2021 and English in 2023, Jewish musicians in Belgrade: From the Balfour Declaration to the Holocaust (Belgrade, Musical Institute SANU and Hera edu) received the “Stana Đurić Klajn” award for the most significant contribution in the field of musicology, the award for the most significant scientific publication at the International Book Fair in Sarajevo and the for encouraging cultural exchange in the region at the Book Fair in Podgorica. The last book Jews in cinema culture of Croatia 1896-1945 was published in Zagreb in 2024. Recently active as project manager on Creative Europe projects: “Guerre” dedicated to sensitive heritage from WWI and “Roma Soul Food focused on Roma minority music and cuisine tradition”. She is a associate at the Center for the Cooperation with the EU, and project manager at the Center for popular music research.

maja.vasiljevic@f.bg.ac.rs