Azra Hromadzic, MA

Office: A/C 304
Phone: (920) 424-7307
Email: hromadza@uwosh.edu

Education:
B.A. (Summa Cum Laude) in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 2001; M.A. in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, 2003; Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania

Interests and expertise:
Azra Hromadzic is an Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh. In her research and teaching she has specialized in the following substantive areas: cultural and social theory, political anthropology, violence and reconciliation, globalization and democratization, youth and education, socialism and post-socialism, and South Eastern Europe, focusing on Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Ms. Hromadzic has published articles in German and English, had her work appear in Comparative Education Review and other numerous edited volumes. Additionally she presented her work at more than 30 conferences in the USA and Europe. Among the several honors and awards she received is the prestigious Penn Prize for Excellence in Teaching by Graduate Students.

Her doctoral research entitled “Empty Nation: Youth, Education, and Democratization in Post-conflict Bosnia and Herzegovina” is an ethnographic investigation of the internationally directed peace-building interventions in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the response of local people, especially youth, to these efforts. The research and writing have been supported by a number of grants and fellowships received from the Social Science Research Council, the United States Institute of Peace, the Spencer Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Association of the University Women, Penfield, the Josephine De Karman Fellowship, and the New Europe College Regional Fellowship. Azra's Ph.D. dissertation topic is, “Empty Nation: Youth, Education, and Democratization in Post-conflict and Post-socialist Bosnia-Herzegovina.”