Dusan Bjelic, PhD

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  • Professor
Dusan Bjelic
207-780-4759

300E Payson Smith Hall, Portland Campus

Education

  • Ph.D. Sociology Boston University 1989
  • M.A. Sociology University of Belgrade 1981
  • B.A. Sociology University of Belgrade 1976

Dušan I. Bjelić received both his B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1981) in Sociology from the University of Belgrade.  He earned his Ph.D in Sociology from Boston University in 1989, joining the University of Southern Maine faculty in 1990. He has taught sociology at the University of Belgrade, Boston University, Tufts, Bentley, and Emerson College. His  areas of interest are ethnomethodology, Balkan studies, and critical studies of psychoanalysis and psychiatry.

Selected Publications

Balkan Transnationalism at the Time of Neoliberal Catastrophe (Ed.) published by Routledge in 2019.

Intoxication, Modernity, and Colonialism: Freud's Industrial Unconscious, Benjamin's Hashish Mimesis published by Palgrave in 2017.

Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis published by Ashgate in 2011 and republished by Routledge in 2016.

Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality and the Body-Instrument Link published by the SUNY Press in 2003.

A co-edited the book Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation published by The MIT Press, 2002.

His published works can be accessed at Academia.edu.

Dusan Bjelic
207-780-4759

300E Payson Smith Hall, Portland Campus

Education

  • Ph.D. Sociology Boston University 1989
  • M.A. Sociology University of Belgrade 1981
  • B.A. Sociology University of Belgrade 1976