Iva Jelušić 

She is an independent researcher specializing in social history, with a focus on women’s and gender history, Second World War, and the politics of memory in postwar Yugoslavia. She holds a PhD in Comparative History from Central European University (CEU), where she also earned an MA in European Women’s and Gender History.

Her doctoral dissertation examined representations of the female soldier—the partizanka—in Yugoslav popular media, exploring how these portrayals have contributed to collective memory and national identity.

Previously, she was a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Chr. Michelsen Institute (CMI) in Bergen, Norway, where she worked on the ERC-funded project War and Fun: Reconceptualizing Warfare and Its Experience (WARFUN). In this role, she investigated the intersections of leisure, resistance, and emotion during the Yugoslav People’s Liberation Struggle (1941–1945).