Staff

Jana Krstić was born and lives in Serbia. She graduated in Philosophy at the Universities of Niš and Zagreb. She works in Group 484 as the program coordinator for education. Besides education, her main fields of interest are identities and culture in the Western Balkans. She is an activist for the reconciliation and transitional justice in the Western Balkans.

Matija Carević from Croatia holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations. Within the IUFU Balkan Course she is responsible for overall coordination. Her academic focus includes topics, such as collective identity-building, cultural trauma, and historical memory, with a particular emphasis on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe.

Omer Merzić is an editor at Dobra knjiga, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Omer holds a BA in History from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Sarajevo and an MA from Goldsmiths College of the University of London. He is mainly focused on modern history of Europe, specifically South Eastern Europe and Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Tao is a French student and proofreader and works in a university library of languages and civilizations. During his BA in Nordic Studies and a year of Libraries Studies, he self-learned Bulgarian and BCS. He now studies a MA in Bulgarian and History and Social Sciences focusing on Eastern and South-Eastern Europe. His research topics explore questions of memory, transmission and social influences in Post-Communist Bulgaria.

Bojana Boba Vuletić is a political scientist specialized in international relations. She completed her studies at the Faculty of Political Sciences in Belgrade, where she continues to live and work. She is an activist for women's and minority rights, with a special focus on the LGBTQ+ struggle for equality. She is the Director of the Critical Education Center, educator and a publicist.