Melissa Bokovoy

Associate Professor • Regents' Lecturer • Modern Europe
Chair • European Studies

Contact

email: mbokovoy@unm.edu

office: Mesa Vista 2080

office phone: (505)277-7854

Office Hours(Spring 2008): TTH 10:30-11:30; 2:30-3:30 or by appointment

Profile

Professor Bokovoy teaches courses on eastern and western Europe in the twentieth century, as well as the western civilization surveys. Topics of particular interest in her courses are the First and Second World Wars and nationalism in the modern world. Her main area of research is the history of the south Slavs (Yugoslavia) in the twentieth century. She has primarily worked on the post World War II period, focusing on the social and political relationships between Yugoslav society and its Communist party-state. She is currently working on a project entitled: “The Politics of Commemoration: Memory and Mourning in Serbia and Croatia, 1919-1941.”

Education

B.A. in History, Pomona College, 1983
M.A. in East European History, Indiana University, 1987
Ph.D. in Eastern Europe since 1453, Indiana University, 1991

Research

Eastern Europe since 1453, twentieth-century Europe, World War I and II, nationalism, and world history

Selected Publications

Sharing the World Stage: Biography and Gender in World History(2008); co-authors Jane Slaughter, Patricia Risso, Ping Yao, and Patricia Romero


Sharing the Stage: Biography and Gender in Western Civilization, co-author Jane Slaughter, (2003)

Peasants and Communists: Politics and Ideology in the Yugoslav Countryside, 1941-1953 (1998)

State-Society Relations in Yugoslavia, 1945-1992 (1997)

Awards

Winner of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies’ Barbara Jelavich Prize for distinguished monograph on any aspect of southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600 or on nineteenth or twentieth-century Ottoman or diplomacy, 1999

University of New Mexico Regents’ Lecturer, 2001-2004

Fellow(2005-2006), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.

Courses

Western Civilization I and II

World History: The Excellent Adventure
Europe since 1939

Eastern Europe in the 20th Century

World War I

Europe and the Balkins

Art, Politics and Identity in the Former Yugoslavia
Europe from 1890-1939

Graduate Seminars: Nationalism; Gendery, War, and Memory