Prof. Slobodan G. Markovich, MBE, graduated in History from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Belgrade. He completed his MPhil in Historical Studies at the University of Cambridge, in 2000 and obtained PhD in Political Anthropology in 2004 from the University of Belgrade. He was a Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Centre for the Study of Global Governance of the London School of Economics in 2005 and 2007, and a Visiting Fellow at the Hellenic Observatory and LSEE of the European Institute/LSE in 2010. Since 2012 he has been a Research Associate at LSEE/LSE, and since 2019 an Associate at LSE IDEAS.

He was a Programme Director at the Belgrade Open School (1998-2001), a Researcher at the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy, Belgrade (2001), and then the First Secretary for Cultural Affairs at the Yugoslav Embassy in the Hellenic Republic (2001-2002). Since 2002 he has been engaged with the Institute for European Studies in Belgrade. He has also been employed at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade since 2005 (as Assistant Professor, 2005-2010 and Associate Professor, 2010-2014). Since 2014 he has been a Full Professor at the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade where he lecturers Political Anthropology, Political History of South-East Europe, Cultural Anthropology, and Image of the Other. He has also been an external associate of the Balkan Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts since 2010.

He was Executive Director of the International (Yugoslav-British) Summer School for Democracy from 2001 till 2012. In 2009 the summer school was renamed South-East European Summer School for Democracy. He has been Secretary-General of the Anglo-Serbian (Yugoslav) Society since its foundation. In this capacity he organised around 20 summer schools and conferences with regional participants and lecturers from major British universities, from the University of Belgrade and from American and other universities.

In 2014, he was appointed an honorary Member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (MBE) by HM Queen Elisabeth II.

In 2008-2012, he was editor-in-chief of special and university editions in Zavod – the Serbian Textbook Publisher, the biggest publisher in Serbia.

His publications include British Perceptions of Serbia and the Balkans, 1903-1906 (Paris: Dialogue, 2000). He has been co-editor of the following books: S. G. Markovich, V. Pavlovic, E. B. Weaver (eds.), Challenges to New Democracies (Belgrade: Cigoja Press, 2004), and S. G. Markovich, E. B. Weaver and V. Pavlovic, Problems of Identities in the Balkans (Belgrade: Anglo-Serbian Society, 2006). He edited: Slobodan Markovich (ed.), Europe and the Western Balkans after the Big Enlargement (Belgrade: Institute for European Studies, 2005). In 2006 he published a monograph on a diplomat, economist, historian and the leading Serbian Anglophile Chedomille Miyatovich: Slobodan G. Markovich, Grof Čedomilj Mijatović. Viktorijanac medju Srbima [Count Chedomille Miyatovich. A Victorian among Serbs] (Belgrade: Dosije Press and Belgrade Law School, 2006). He published a summarised version in English of Miyatovich’s biography in the journal Balcanica: “Čedomilj Mijatović, a Leading Serbian Anglophile”, Balcanica, vol. XXXVIII (2007), pp. 105-132, and later he published in the same a journal a study on five Balkan Anglophiles: “Anglophiles in Balkan Christian States, 1860-1920”, Balcanica, vol. XL (2010), pp. 95-145. In January 2018 he organised an international conference on British-Serbian (Yugoslav) relations on the occasion of 180 years of British-Serbian diplomatic relations. Collection of papers from this conference was published at the end of 2018: Slobodan G. Markovich, British-Serbian Relations from the 18th to the 21st Centuries (Belgrade: FPS and Zepter Book World, 2018).

In 2014, he published Pesimistička antropologija Zigmunda Frojda (Pessimistic Anthropology of Sigmund Freud) Dosije Press, Belgrade, 2014. Since 2016 he has organised biannual conferences Psychoanalysis and Culture that were dedicated to the legacy of Freudian thought (2016), to Wilhelm Reich, the problem of leader (2017) and the last one to Eros and Thanatos (2019). His field of research includes psychoanalytic anthropology.

Since 2017 he has been the Head of the Centre for British Studies of the Faculty of Political Science of the University of Belgrade.

He deals with Anglo-American perceptions of the Balkans in the 19th and 20th centuries, late modern Anglo-Balkan relations, perceptions of the “other”, psychoanalytic anthropology and with the history of Western European pessimism.

E-mail: S.Markovich@lse.ac.uk