Iva Lučić

Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, SCAS

Associate Professor of History, Stockholm University

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Iva Lučić is a historian, with a focus on modern South-eastern and East Central Europe, and a former opera singer.

Lučić earned a Ph.D. in history at Uppsala University in 2016. She has held a post-doc position at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna and been a Linneaus-Palme Fellow with the Department of History at Kolkata University as well as an invited visiting scholar at the European University Institute in Florence. Between 2019–2022, she conducted a research project funded by the Swedish Research Council on forest use regulation in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the inter-imperial transition from Ottoman to Habsburg governance.

Lučić is the author of two monographs and several articles. Her book Im Namen der Nation (Harrassowitz Verlag 2018) on the mobilization process for the political elevation of Muslims in Socialist Yugoslavia was awarded the Fritz and Helga Exner prize by the Southeast Europe Association in Germany and the Westin prize by the Royal Society of the Humanities at Uppsala. Her second monograph Gebrochenes Brot (Anton Pustet Verlag 2020) is about the role of religion as a social practice among Roman Catholic noble women in Bohemia after the dissolution of the Habsburg Monarchy. Her works have been translated into several languages, including Croatian and French.

As a Pro Futura Scientia Fellow, Lučić will examine the making of extractive peripheries in the Balkans, focusing on forest extraction between 1870–1990. The project explores multiple peripheralization processes of one region under a variety of shifting polities, including empires, post-imperial state formations, and the communist regime. It strives to analytically locate the Balkans within a global net of socio-economic and ecological entanglements.

This information is accurate as of the academic year 2024-25.