Profile
Abstract
Katarina Ristić is a research associate at the Global and European Studies Institute at Leipzig University. She is working on the intersection of Southeast European history, media and memory studies.
Holding a PhD in history from the Faculty of History, Arts and Regional Studies of Leipzig University(2013), she studied philosophy at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Belgrade (2004). In her first monograph, she focuses on war crimes trials in the Hague Tribunal and their media representation in the former Yugoslavia.
She was a research associate at Helmut Schmidt University/University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg and at the University of Magdeburg in the field of International Security and Conflict Studies.
She is currently researching far-right extremism and memory culture in the digital age.
Professional career
- since 02/2019
Research Associate, Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University - 02/2016 - 10/2017
Research Associate, Helmut-Schmidt-University/ University of the Federal Armed Forces Hamburg, Institute of International Politics - 02/2015 - 02/2016
Research Associate, Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg - 09/2004 - 01/2007
NGO Humanitarian Law Center - since 04/2013
Lecturer, Global and European Studies Institute, Leipzig University - since 04/2020
Lecturer at Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Research Academy Leipzig - 10/2019 - 10/2021
Lecturer at Leuphana University (BA), Lüneburg - since 10/2019
Lecturer at Regional School of Transitional Justice, Belgrade
Education
- 10/2009 - 07/2013
PhD Candidate, Faculty of History, Art and Regional Studies, Leipzig University - 10/1994 - 10/2004
BA and MA in Philosophy, University in Belgrade - 10/2009 - 07/2013
Graduate School Global and Area Studies, Research Academy Leipzig
Panel Memberships
- since 04/2021
Scientific Commission of the City of Leipzig on Street Naming - since 06/2022
Mittelbau Commission of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy - since 07/2019
Cultures of History Forum at the Imre Kertész Kolleg Jena
Research Areas:
Cultural History of Southeastern Europe
Transitional Justice
Memory Studies
Visual Culture
Digital Memory
Extremism and Far-right Movements
Languages:
Serbian (native), English, German, Russian
Methods Seminar in Graduate School, supporting the PhDs in their research
Seminars on work with Digital Sources
Introduction to Methods in Global Studies, at MA Programme Global and European Studies Institute. Students are guided through the whole research process, from developing a research design and a research question to collecting material and doing the empirical analysis. Content, discourse, or narrative analysis are options offered in the course, focusing on the distinction between objectivist, constructivist, and subjectivist epistemologies they entail.
Student-centered, interactive, and collaborative learning methods
Research-based learning seminars, where students jointly conduct empirical research on different topics.
Digital collaborative formats like wikis, glossaries, annotations, or the use of qualitative analysis programs like MaxQDA.