YUGOSLAVIA FIELDWORK
I began fieldwork in Yugoslavia in 1981, as a Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Comparative Law in Belgrade. My project was an ethnographic study of the Courts of Associated Labor, supposedly workers’ courts for labor cases. I can still get a laugh from older lawyers as the world’s only expert on the Sudovi Udruženog Rada. Good academic work, I think; well published, well funded (grants from NSF, IREX, ACLS, among others), but not exciting.
And then Yugoslavia became exciting. Too exciting. In the late 1980s a “permanent crisis” in the economy led to political conflicts, which led to a constitutional crisis, and the collapse of the country into war in 1991. I found myself tracking these events, and then the wars, and studying phenomena that I had never thought I would need to consider: ethno-national violence, gendered violence, the constitutional structures and politics of ethnocracies, war crimes, plus the international involvement in all of this. I continue to work on issues in the former Yugoslavia and its successor republics. Selected publications are below.
PUBLICATIONS
Articles: Many, many articles -- check CV on main page
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990
From Yugoslavia to the Western Balkans: Studies of a European Disunion, 1991-2011. Leiden: Brill, 2013
University of Michigan Press, 1999; paperback 2000
