Dr. Ana Pajvancic-Cizelj

Dr. Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, a Senior Scientist at the Department for European Policy and Study of Democracy, holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Novi Sad. Previously, she held positions as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellow at the Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Assistant/Associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, and a visiting researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, supported by an Austrian Academy of Sciences fellowship. She is interested in the urban and spatial dimension of Europeanization, democratization, and autocratization in (Southeast) Europe, as well as feminist urbanism, and has published on those topics in the top journals in her field such as the East European Politics, Territory, Politics, Governance, and the European Journal of Women Studies. Additionally, she authored the monograph "Global Urban Processes" (Mediterran Publishing, 2017) and is presently preparing a new book titled "Spaces of Europeanization in the Balkans: Cities, Networks, and Urban Epistemic Communities." Dr. Pajvančić-Cizelj also serves as the editor-in-chief of the journal Sociologija and as a guest editor for the journal Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

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