Ewa Anna Kumelowski, PhD

Education

• Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS, Paris)
  Chair for South-East European History – CETOBaC
  Cotutelle PhD Program in History
  2019 – 2025
• Sciences Po Paris – Institut d’études politiques de Paris
  Master of Arts in History
  2016 – 2018
• Sciences Po Paris – Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Campus Reims)
  Freie Universität Berlin
  Dual degree – Bachelor of Arts in Political Sciences
  2012 – 2015

Employment

• 2025 – present: Research Associate, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino (INZ)
• 2024-2025: Research Fellowship. L’Institut d’études avancées de Nantes – Institute of Advanced Study Nantes, France

Research Interests

Areas of research

• Microhistory
• Social history of war
• Art, culture and war
• Yugoslav cultural history

Selected projects

• Partisan care: women’s wartime experiences in the Yugoslav Partisan Medical Corps (YUCARE)
• Sarajevo under siege: an archive of wartime culture
• Parallel fortunes: a Yugoslav arts scene beyond the Yugoslav state

Mobility and fellowships:

• 2024, Visiting Fellowship, Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino (INZ)
• 2023, Visiting Fellowship (Start-Up Funding), Osteuropa Institut – Institute for East European Studies (OEI), Freie Universität Berlin, Germany

Scientific networks:

Associated Researcher – Centre d’études turques, ottomanes, balkaniques et centrasiatiques (CETOBaC)

Educational activity:

“Representations of a common culture: Approaches towards studying Yugoslav cultural history through the prism of diplomatic relations”. Winter Semester 2019/2020, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin as part of the bologna.labs Q-Team program.

Awards & recognition:

Elsa Neumann Promotionsstipendium (PhD Scholarship)

Selected publications:

• Artists at War: Artistic responses and wartime narratives during the siege of Sarajevo
  Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict, Palgrave MacMillan (London: 2025)

• Héritages visuels contestés. Mobiliser la Yougoslavie socialiste dans la production artistique contemporaine des femmes en Bosnie-Herzégovine.
  Balkanologie 18 (2024), no.2
  https://journals.openedition.org/balkanologie/5370?lang=en

• Sarajevo Ghetto Spectacle: An introduction to the history of the visual arts scene of besieged Sarajevo
  Third Text 34 (2020), no 3, pp. 350–368
  https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09528822.2020.1812925