Beyond the Anticlerical Paradigm:

Rethinking Secularism in Contemporary Montenegro

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Bojan Baća

Bojan Baća

Research Fellow

The principal investigator, coordinates the project’s activities and contributes to its topic from the perspectives of critical sociology and area studies.

Bojan Baća is a research fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies at the University of Montenegro. After receiving his PhD from York University in 2018, he has held postdoctoral research fellowships at the University of Graz, Charles University, Heidelberg University, and most recently at the University of Gothenburg as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow. He has also served as a research fellow at the University of Rijeka, New Europe College, and Akademie Schloss Solitude.

His research has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed outlets, including Sociology, Antipode, International Political Sociology, Political Geography, Europe-Asia Studies, and Theory, Culture & Society (forthcoming), among several others. Over the past few years, he has received several research awards recognizing his contributions to the study of civil society and social movements in Central and Eastern Europe, such as the 2022 Routledge Area Studies Interdisciplinarity Award, 2022 Zagorka Golubović Engaged Research Award, and 2020 Danubius Young Scientist Award.

His professional background includes more than a decade of experience in the non-governmental sector, where he worked as a policy analyst and consultant. Presently, he is a member of the Balkans in Europe Policy Advisory Group (BiEPAG).