My story & Insomnia Talk

I’m an anthropologist working with multimodal methods and specializing in insomnia and urban environments.

My story

I am a 2025-2025 Taft Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. My work contributes to critical conversations in medical anthropology, temporality, and urban life. My manuscript Awake in the World; Insomnia and the Arts of Living in Belgrade merges ethnographic theory and historical contextualization with poetic and multimodal elements demonstrating how creative forms can deepen analytic insight. Probing the limits of ethnographic inquiry, my writing examines familiar expressions - racing against time, feeling out of sync, not present, exhausted, adrift from one’s own time, not being in control - which reveal how time is not only learned but disciplined through the everyday routines of modern life. As an award winning film-maker, I rely on my background in Visual Anthropology in creating multi-modal methodologies - sound, image and film - in both presenting my work and doing research. Insomnia talk is a space for me to organize many projects that grew out of my dissertation, and a space to keep you awake...

Education

PhD in Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
2019 -

MA in Social Anthropology, WWU, Muenster, Germany
2018

MA in Visual Anthropology, University of Belgrade
2015

Cultural Anthropology - Fieldsights 2025

Anthropology and Humanism 2023

Platypus 2024

American Ethnologist Website 2024, 2022

Anthropology News 2023

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