Dejan Djokic

Dejan Djokić joined Maynooth University as Full Professor of History (post-1500) in June 2023. Previously, he held a Chair in Modern and Contemporary History at Goldsmiths, University of London, which he had joined as a lecturer in 2007 and where in 2009 he founded Centre for the Study of the Balkans, an interdisciplinary research centre which brings together UK-based and international scholars working on the region. Early on in his career, Dejan held lectureships at Birkbeck, University of London (2002/03) and The University of Nottingham (2003-2007; this was a permanent post). He has also held visiting (Columbia University, 2010) and guest (Humboldt University of Berlin, since 2020) professorships. He received a PhD in History from University College London (School of Slavonic and East European Studies) in 2004 and was a postdoctoral research fellow at Columbia University, New York in Spring that year. 

Dejan is the author of three monographs and four edited volumes. His latest book, A Concise History of Serbia, published by Cambridge in January 2023, has already received praise in media (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, New Books Network) and lengthy reviews in Croatian and Serbian scholarly journals. A revised Serbian edition, with a new foreword, was published by Akademska knjiga, Novi Sad, in October 2023.

In 2020-2023 Dejan was a Leverhulme Research Fellow. Previously, he was a British Academy Mid-Career Fellow (2019-2020). Between March 2015 and September 2016 he held an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers at Humboldt University of Berlin (this was followed by an AvH Alumni award in 2023). Dejan's research was also funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council, UK (2006-2007). In 2007 he was a Public Policy Scholar at Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington, DC, while in 2014 he held a Visiting Research Fellowship in the Department of History and Civilisation, European University Institute, Florence. Dejan has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2008.

Together with a group of fellow historians of Europe, in 2009 Dejan co-founded the ‘Rethinking Modern Europe’ seminar at Institute of Historical Research, University of London. 

He regularly provides expertise to media on historical and current affairs and engages with non-academic audiences. He has contributed to the Arte TV, BBC (TV, incl. Great Continental Railway Journeys, Radio 3 and Radio 4, World News and Serbian Section), Guardian, Independent, New Statesman, Neue Zürcher Zeitung, The Telegraph, Times Higher Education, Times Literary Supplement, and has frequently spoken at public events.