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Dr. Bokovoy is Associate Professor of History and Regents’ Lecturer at the University of New Mexico (since 1998). She has held appointments as Director, International Studies Institute (2002 to present), and Assistant Professor of History (1991-1998) at UNM; was Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, San Diego (1996); and Assistant Professor of History, Saint Mary’s College of Minnesota (1990-1991). Her current research “…moves back in time to explain how the public and private commemorations of the Balkan wars and World War I inextricably linked the personal and collective experiences of Serbs to the physical and symbolic landscape of a Yugoslav state and simultaneously excluded the other south Slavs, especially Croats, from staking similar claims.” The study sheds light on the process by which Serbs and Croats constructed distinct narratives of past injustices, wrongs, and sorrows, and represented their respective nations as victims, and not perpetrators.

Dr. Bokovoy holds a B.A. in History from Pomona College, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Eastern European History from Indiana University. She was a Woodrow Wilson Center Fellow in 2005-2006. Her major publications are Sharing the Stage: Biography and Gender in Western Civilization (with Jane Slaughter); Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in the Yugoslav Countryside, 1941-1953; and State–Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992 (with eds. Jill Irvine and Carol Lilly).