Ljubinka Škodrić, Visiting Fellowship 2024/25

Biography

Ljubinka Škodrić is a senior research associate at the Institute of Contemporary History in Belgrade, Serbia. She earned her PhD in Yugoslav history at the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She specializes in the history of education and the social history of Serbia during the Second World War. She is the author of two monographs: Ministry of Education and Religion in Serbia 1941–1944. The Fate of Institution under Occupation (Ministarstvo prosvete i vera u Srbiji 1941–1944. Sudbina institucije pod okupacijom, Beograd, Arhiv Srbije, 2009) and Women in Occupied Serbia 1941–1944 (Žena u okupiranoj Srbiji 1941–1944, Beograd: Arhipelag, Institut za savremenu istoriju, 2020). Among her publications are collections of documents and various studies and articles in foreign and local journals and edited volumes. Areas of her research are: gender history of Serbia, history of education, social history of Serbia, history of Serbian archival service. She is co-editor of the volume Anti-Axis Resistance in Southeastern Europe, 1939–1945. Forms and Varieties of (Paderborn: Brill | Schöningh, 2023)

Visiting Fellowship, March 1 – 16, 2025

Motivation

My main motivation for this fellowship is to establish closer contacts and cooperation with the researchers at the INZ. I see this as an opportunity to expand my knowledge of the history of Yugoslavia during the Second World War. This particularly pertains to the chance to exchange ideas with experts on this topic at the INZ and to conduct research of archival documents from this period in the Archives of the Republic of Slovenia. Regarding this aspect of the visit, my special area ofinterest are gender relations on the territory of Yugoslavia during the war, especially within the People’s Liberation Movement, as well as the history of suicides among the members of this movement, primarily among its female members.

Recent publications

Ljubinka Škodrić, Nemanja Dević, „Suicide among Members of the People’s Liberation Movement in Occupied Serbia 1941–1944”, Istraživanja. Јournal of Historical Researches, 35 (2024), 216–235. https://doi.org/10.19090/i.2024.35.216-235.

Nataša Milićević, Ljubinka Škodrić, “Working for the enemy: civil servants in occupied Serbia, 1941–1944”. In: Coercion and Wage Labour. Exploring work relations through history and art. Editors: Anamarija Batista, Viola Franziska Müller and Corinna Peres, 79–106. London: UCL Press, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/jj.4329861.10

Ljubinka Škodrić, Boris Tomanić, „Seksualno nasilje i bugarski okupator u Jugoslaviji tokom Drugog svetskog rata“, Etnoantropološki problemi, 3 (2023), 887–908. https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v18i3.10

Ljubinka Škodrić, “War, Occupation and Infrastructural Planning. The Serbian Civil Plan 1941–1944”. In: Taming the Yugoslav Space Continuities and Discontinuities in Coping with the Infrastructural Challenges of the 20th Century. Edited by: Danijel Kežić, Vladimir Petrović, Edvin Pezo, 163–184. Belgrade: Institute for Contemporary History, Regensburg: Leibniz-Institut für Ost- und Südosteuropaforschung, 2023. https://doi.org/10.29362/2023.2794.sko.163-184