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Dr Miladina Monova holds a doctoral degree in Social Anthropology from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Her dissertation studies addressed Roads of Exile, Narratives of No Return: Aegeans in the Republic of Macedonia. Her current academic and teaching interests focus on refugee studies, war-identities – especially with regard to children and fighters, transborder relations and kinship networks, collective/individual memory, and the uses of the past in Balkan countries (Greece, Macedonia). She has also read in labelling theory (practices of nomination and classification of individuals and groups), and linguistic anthropology (politics and language ideologies in Europe).
Dr Monova held a teaching assistantship in ethnographic methods in sociology and anthropology, urban sociology, writing sociology, and history of French sociology between 1918 and 1970 by Université des Sciences et Techniques (Lille I), France (2003-2004). She also held various research fellowships awarded by Ecole Française d'Athènes (EFA), Greece (2006-2007; 2004-2005); and Collegium Budapest, (Institute for Advanced Study), Hungary (2005-2006); and by the Institute for Studies of the Recent Past, Sofi a (2008). She has published widely in French, English and Macedonian in both native and international academic editions. She is Member of the editorial board of the academic journal, Balkanologie, Member of Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Institutions et Organisations Sociales (LAIOS), CNRS-EHESS, (dir. Marc Abélès) , and Member of the Association Française d'Études sur les Balkans (AFEBalk).