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Research Interest(s): History of age-related vulnerabilities; history of destitute children; history of age and ageing; Welfare history; history of socialist Yugoslavia; Southeastern Europe, Balkans
Discipline(s): History
Geographical Area(s): Balkans
Biography
- Since 2025: PhD Candidate at Centre for History at Sciences Po (CHSP)
- 2024-2025: History and Geography teacher in secondary education (Académie de Grenoble)
- 2024: Agrégation in history
- 2021-2023: Master’s degree in History at Sciences Po. Master thesis supervised by Sabine Dullin : “Des maisons sans parents. Une histoire sociale et politique des maisons d’enfants dans les Républiques populaires du Monténégro et de Bosnie-Herzégovine, 1945-début des années 1960 [Homes without parents. A social and political history of children’s homes in the Popular Republics of Montenegro and Bosnia and Hercegovina, 1945-early 1960s]”
- 2018-2021: Sciences Po’s Bachelor degree in humanities and social sciences, geographical minor European Union, Central and Eastern Europe (Dijon campus)
Current Research
My research focuses on age-related vulnerabilities and social protection in socialist Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1991. By delving into children’s and retirement homes, I explore
how this political regime, built on a celebration of productive work, cared for those who were unable to work due to their age. The premise of my approach is to consider policies toward vulnerable children and the elderly as two closely related phenomena. This social history of age and care takes root in Yugoslavia’s multinational and multireligious context. It is unique because of its self-management organization and its unique position between the blocs, at the crossroads of the East, West, and South.
Thesis topic
Title : “Placing in homes children and elderly. Social protection and age-related vulnerabilities in socialist Yugoslavia, 1945-1991”
Supervised by Sabine Dullin (Sciences Po Center for History) and Fabio Giomi (CETOBaC)
AWARDS
2024 Master’s thesis award of the Comité d’histoire de la Sécurité sociale [Social Security
History Committee]
publications
With Paul Marguier, “The Holy Roman Empire, a building tool of a European Unity?”, Mali
Leviathan, vol. 8(1), 2021, p. 40-55.