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Danilo Mandić604 William James Hall

33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge MA 02138mandic@fas.harvard.edu

Current Position: College Fellow, Harvard University.Languages: English (native); French (fluent); Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian (native); Georgian, Russian (beginner).Software: Atlas.ti (advanced); Stata (proficient); SPSS (proficient); GIS (proficient).

EDUCATIONHarvard University PhD in Sociology, May 2015. Dissertation: “Separatists, Gangsters and Other Statesmen: The State, Secession and Organized Crime in Serbia and

Georgia, 1989-2012.”Committee: Mary Waters (chair), Orlando Patterson, Bart Bonikowski.

Oral Examination: “Comparative Historical Analysis and Separatist Movements.”Committee: Theda Skocpol (chair), Mary Waters, Grzegorz Ekiert, Bart Bonikowski.

Princeton University A.B. in Sociology, June 2007. Certificate in European Cultural Studies, May 2007. Senior Thesis: “Making Serbs: Serbian Nationalism and Collective Identity, 1990-2000.”

ACADEMIC HONORS

GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship (2014-2015). Minda de Ginzburg Center for European Studies Dissertation Fellowship (2013-2014). Derek C. Bok Certificate of Excellence in Teaching (2016); three Certificates of Distinction in Graduate

Student Teaching (2009, 2012, 2013). Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship(2010–2011). Distinction on Harvard PhD Written Examinations (2009). Graduated Summa Cum Laude & Phi Beta Kappa (2007). Lisa N. Bryant Award, Princeton’s highest undergraduate honor in sociology (2007). Asher Hinds Prize, for outstanding Senior Thesis (2007). Elise M. Boulding Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association’s War, Peace and Social Conflict

Section (2007). William R. Hambrecht Class of 1957 Scholarship for 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 academic years. Princeton Class of 1978 Fellowship (2007). Princeton Class of 1995 Summer Service Fund grant winner, for research and community work in Kosovo (2007). Best Paper Award at Undergraduate Political Science and Sociology Convention at Monmouth University (2006).

FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS (>$1,000)

GSAS Doctoral Dissertation Completion Fellowship ($26,000) (2014-2015). Minda de Ginzburg Center for European Studies Dissertation Fellowship ($25,000) (2013-2014). Social Science Research Council Eurasia Dissertation Development Fellowship ($24,000) (2013-2014) (declined). Harvard University’s Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship ($24,000) (2010-2011). Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard Summer Travel Grant ($3,000 in 2009 & $2,100 in

2010). Kathryn Wasserman Davis Project for Peace Grant ($10,000) (2007). George and Obie Shultz Fund Fellowship (2006). Class of 1939/Fred Fox Fund Fellowship (2006, 2007). Class of 1991 Fund Fellowship (2007). Finalist for Soros Fellowship for New Americans (2009), Harry S. Truman Scholarship Nomination (2005), and

Beinecke Scholarship (2005).PUBLICATIONS

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[Book Manuscript]: “Gangsters and Other Statesmen: Organized Crime in Torn States in the 21st Century.” Co-Editor and Contributor, Changing Youth Values in Southeastern Europe: Beyond Ethnic Identity in Southeast

European Studies Series, Routledge (under contract). “Refugee Risk: An International Study of Syrian Forced Migration and Smuggling” (Revise and Resubmit,

International Migration). “Anatomy of a Refugee Wave: Forced Migration on the Balkan Route as Two Processes” EuropeNow, Columbia

University Council for European Studies (January 2017). “What Kind of Burden is the Burden of History? How Young Adults in Kosovo and Serbia Experience and

Understand Nationalism,” Ethnopolitics (2016). “The Importance of Informality: A Response to Eckhard’s ‘Political Engineering in Kosovo,’” Amsterdam

Social Science (Volume 4, Issue 1, 2011). “Myths and Bombs: War, State Popularity and the Collapse of National Mythology,” Nationalities Papers,

(Volume 36, Issue 1, March 2008, 25-54). “The Limits of Nationalism: Serbia’s 1991 Military Mobilization and Resistance to it,” Stanford Undergraduate

Research Journal, Volume VI (Spring 2007).

TEACHING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

Head Researcher for Boston Consortium for Arab Regional Studies (BCARS) project on Syrian refugees,migrant smugglers, and border management on the Balkan Route (2015-6).

“Refugees in Global Perspective” (Spring 2017); “War, Revolution and Organized Crime: In Theory, in Film and inReality”; “Introduction to Political Sociology” and “Protest and the State” (2015-2017).

Visiting Lecturer, “Globalization and Culture” at Ewha Womans University, South Korea (Summer 2016, 2017). Head Instructor and Instructor for SOC 97: “Tutorial in Sociological Theory (2011-3). Teaching Fellow for SOC 134: “Theories of Power in Postcommunist Societies” (Fall 2009). Research Assistant for Michele Lamont, data collection and analysis on immigration and race in France and the US

(Fall 2008) Research Assistant for Bart Bonikowski, data collection and coding on European Parliament members’ reentry into

national politics (Spring 2014).

ADVISING & REVIEWING

Reviewer for American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review, Ethnicities, Nationalities Papers(2011-2015).

Senior Thesis Advisor in Sociology Department (2013-16) and Senior Thesis Grader in Committee for Degrees inSocial Studies (Spring 2012; Spring 2013).

Presenter, Harvard Club of Serbia (2011-present). Chair, Princeton Alumni School Committee for Serbia, Montenegro, and Kosovo (2007-2017).

LECTURES & PRESENTATIONS

“Refugee Risk: Syrian Forced Migration and Smuggling,” University of Graz, Austria (January 2017). “Refugee Fieldwork: Experiences from Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Serbia and Germany,” Center for European

Studies, Harvard University (December 2016). “Gangsters and Other Patriots: A Model of Organized Criminal Relations to Host State and Separatist Movement,”

Politics and Protest Workshop, CUNY (May 2016). “Europe and the Syrian Refugee Crisis: First Findings from the Field,” Center for European Studies, Harvard

University (March 2016). “Syrian Refugees on the Balkan Route and Trasnational Organized Crime,” Keynote Speech at European

Conversations, Northeastern University (February 2016). “Gangsters and Patriots: Organized Crime as a Neglected Nonstate Determinant of Separatist Success,” Collective

Behavior and Social Movements Section, Annual Meeting of American Sociological Association (August 2015). “Organized Crime as a Neglected Non-State Actor and the Overemphasis on Violence,” Brudnick Center for the

Study of Violence and Conflict, Northeastern University (March 2015). “Separatist Movements and Organized Crime in Kosovo, Serbia, and South Ossetia, Georgia,” Eastern Sociological

Society, New York City (February 2015). “Analyzing Organized Criminal Relations with Separatist Movement and Host State,” Political Violence

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Workshop at Government Department, Harvard University (December 2014). “Price of Secession: The State, Its Separatist Challenger, and Organized Crime in Serbia and Georgia,” ISA World

Congress of Sociology, Yokohama, Japan (July 2014). “Social Movements and Separatism: Theoretical Considerations,” Institute for Philosophy and Social Theory,

Belgrade University (December 2013). “Serbia’s Strategic Culture and Search for Identity,” Center for European Studies, Harvard University (May 2013). “Comparative Historical Analysis of Separatism by Regions,” International Workshop on Comparative Methods in

the Social Sciences, University of Perm, Perm, Russia (September 2013). “Separatism and Organized Crime in Serbia and Georgia,” Association for Study of Nationalities, Columbia

University (November 2013). “Separatist Movements and Patronage Networks in Georgia and Serbia” at Eastern Sociological Society

conference, Boston (April 2013). “Weight of History, Burden of Youth: How Young Adults in Kosovo and Serbia Experience Nationalism” at 19 th

International Conference of Europeanists, Boston (March 2012). “Mertonian Functionalism and Comparative Historical Analysis,” at Workshop on Unintended Consequences at

University of Gdansk, Poland (May 2011). “Nationalism from Below: The Case of Serbia-Kosovo,” Annual Conference of the Association for the Study of

Nationalities, at the London School of Economics (April 2011). “The Legacy of Power Elite Theory: A Study of the Treatment of C. Wright Mills’ Power Elite in Sociology and

Political Science,” at History of Sociology Roundtable at World Congress of Sociology (International SociologicalAssociation) in Gothenburg, Sweden (July 2010).

“Diaspora and Development: Sociological Reflections on the Intellectual Diaspora,” at International DiasporaLeadership Conference, University of Toronto (March 2010).

“The Politics of Inequality and Difference” conference at Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,Central European University, Budapest (June 2009).

13th Annual Aage Sorenson Memorial Conference, Sociology Department, Stockholm University (April 2009). "Tensions in Society and Scholarship," Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference, Brown University (April 2009). 5th Annual Inter-Ivy Sociology Symposium, Columbia University (March 2009). Roundtable at Eastern Sociological Society Annual Meeting, Baltimore (March 2009). Undergraduate presenter at “20 Years of Propaganda? Critical Discussions & Evidence on the OngoingRelevance

of the Herman & Chomsky Model” conference, University of Windsor (May 2007). Roundtable, joint conference of North Central Sociological Association and Midwest Sociological Society,

Chicago (April 2007). Invited speaker, Student Peace Conference, Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of

Notre Dame (March 2007). First undergraduate to deliver lecture at Center for Migration and Development’s Colloquium Series at Princeton

University (November 2006).PREVIOUS WORK

Co-Founder, Coordinator, Workshop in History, Culture and Society at Harvard University. 9/13 – 5/14Graduate Fellow, Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies at Harvard University. 9/12 – 5/15Graduate Fellow, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. 9/12 – 5/15Researcher and Affiliate, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees – Belgrade, Serbia. 11/10 – 4/11Founder and Project Leader, After Kosovo: A Project for Peace – Belgrade, Serbia and Kosovo. 6/07 – 9/07Editor-in-Chief; Co-founder, Dollars & Sins, online journal and activist center. 12/03 – 5/07Intern, American Center for International Labor Solidarity (ACILS) – Bangkok, Thailand. 6/06 – 8/06Organizer, Princeton for Workers’ Rights 9/06 – 5/07Undergraduate Fellow, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies 10/05 - 12/06Debate Coach, Association for Creative Communication and Debate 5/04 – 8/04Assistant Editor, Princeton Progressive Review 2/04 – 9/05President, Princeton Coalition Against Capital Punishment 9/03 – 5/07Campus Coordinator, Princeton Peace Network and Coalition for Peace Action (CPA) – Princeton, NJ. 9/03 – 5/07Participant, Human Values Forum and International Relations Council Princeton, NJ. 11/03 –5/07Staff Writer, Z Mag; Idealistic Nation; Soapbox; Princeton Progressive Nation. 11/03 – 5/07Teacher, Anglo American High School of Belgrade 7/04 – 9/04; 7/05 – 9/05Volunteer, Trenton Crisis Ministry, Trenton, NJ. 9/03 – 1/04Delegate, Model United Nations and European Youth Parliament 10/02 – 5/03