The Barbara Jelavich Book Prize is awarded annually for a distinguished monograph published on any aspect of Southeast European or Habsburg studies since 1600, or nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ottoman or Russian diplomatic history in the previous calendar year.
Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies
Jasmina Tumbas, PhD, associate professor of global gender and sexuality studies, focuses her teaching and research on modern and contemporary art history and theory, histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art, art and activism, feminist art, and critical theory. In particularly, she explores art that illuminates the impact of political ideologies, especially in the context of human displacement and feminist and queer histories of resistance in the East European region and its diasporas. Tumbas’ first book, "I am Jugoslovenka!: Feminist Performance Politics During & After Yugoslav Socialism," was recognized with the Barbara Jelavich Book Prize from the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. She also recently received a prestigious Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and a Getty Research Institute Scholar Grant in support of her next project.
