Staff:
Dr Staša Babić
Associate Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
August 8, 1962, Belgrade
Research Interests:
- archaeology of Classical Greece
- Iron Age of the Central Balkans
- theoretical archaeology
- material culture studies
Education and professional training:
April 1998 - Doctorate Thesis, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Belgrade
December 1989 - Master's Degree, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Belgrade
February 1986 - Graduated from the Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
Proffessional posts:
2009 - ... - Head of Department of Archaeology, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
2009 - ... - Chair of the Curriculum Commitee of the Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade
2008 - … - Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology of Greece, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Belgrade
2008 - ... - Member of the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Archaeology
2005 - … - Coordinator and co-author of the project Intercultual Communication in Palaeo-Balkan Societies, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade
2001 - 2005 - Co-author of the project Models of cultural change in Paleo-Balkan societies, Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade
1999 - 2003 - Vice-Chair of the Board of the Alternative Academic Educational Network, Belgrade
1998 - 1999 - Member of the Humanities Committee of the Alternative Academic Educational Network, Belgrade
1998 - 2008 - Assistant Professor, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Belgrade
1992 - 1994 - General Secretary of the Serbian Association of Archaeologists
1990 - 1998 - Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Belgrade
1986 - 1990 - Teaching Assistant, Faculty of Philosophy, Department of Archaeology, Belgrade
Courses Currently Taught:
- Classical archaeology of Greece – history of the discipline, subject, method
- Classical archaeology of Greece – chronology and style
- Archaeology and written sources
- The rise of the polis
- The Greeks and the Others – colonization, helenizaton
- Greek heritage in contemporary Serbia
- Classical archaeology and anthropology (master level)
- Archaeology of identity (master level)
Conferences:
December 2009 – The 31st Annual Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, Durham University, Department of Archaeology, Durham, Great Britain
September 2009 – Fourth International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, The University of Melbourne, Istanbul University, Istanbul, Turkey
April 2005 – Praehistory across Borders – From Aegean to Baltic Seas – Faculty of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia
January 2000 – Lighten our darkness: Cultural transformations at the beginning of the first millenium BC - From the Alps to Anatolia, University of Birmingham, Great Britain
September 1998 – Iron Gates in the Second Half of the First Millenium, Kladovo-Turnu Severin
November 1997 – The Work of Dragoslav Srejovic, Kragujevac, Yugoslavia
November 1994 – Silver Workshops and Mints, National Museum, Belgrade
September 1994 – Inaugural Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Ljubljana, Slovenia
May 1994 – Annual Meeting of the Serbian Association of Archaeologists, Pirot
May 1991 – Annual Meeting of the Serbian Association of Archaeologists, Vršac
Research seminars and lectures:
March 2007 – School of Slavonic and Southeast European Studies, University College London, Great Britain
- May 2004 – Ohrid Summer School Balkans' Cultural Heritage, Art And Vision:From Confluence To Coexistence, course: An Archaeological Sample from Serbia
May 2003 - Ohrid Summer School Balkan Cultural Identities: From Multiple Antiquities To Multiplex Modernity, course: Classical Bearings in the Balkans – An Archaeological Prospective
March 2002 – School of Slavonic and Southeast European Studies, University College London, Great Britain
February 2001 – Department of Archaeology, University of Durham, Great Britain
October 1999 – Department of Archaeology, University of Durham;
Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Great Britain
February 1997 – International University Seminar for Balkan Studies, Bansko, Bulgaria
June 1996 – American University in Bulgaria, Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria
February 1991 – Department of Archaeology, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
December 1990 – Institut fur Ur- und Fruhgeschichte, Heidelberg, Germany
Scholarships and grants:
May 2006 – Curriculum Development Program, WUS, Durham University Department of Archaeology, Great Britain
October 2000 - February 2001- British Council Chevening Scholarship Scheme, Durham University Department of Archaeology, Great Britain
October 1991 - May 1992 - Scholarship of the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Greece
Languages:
English – full control; publishes articles, translates scholarly papers
French – full control
Latin – four years’ academic training
Ancient Greek – two years’ academic training
Italian, Russian, German, Romanian, Bulgarian – passive
Publication List
A – Papers
1) Graeco-Barbarian Contacts in the Early Iron Age Central Balkans, Balkanica XXI (1990), 165 – 183
2) Upotreba grčkih arhajskih proizvoda kod varvara centralnog Balkana (Usage of the Archaic Greek Goods by the Balcanic Barbarian Tribes), Zbornik Filozofskog fakulteta, Beograd (1991), 95 – 103
3) Jezik arheologije (The Language of Archaeology), Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 8 (1992), 114 – 118
4) (with B.Govedarica) Metodologija istraživanja gradinskog naselja Klisura u Kadića Brdu (The Methodology of Excavation at the Hill-fort Site Klisura, Kadića Brdo), Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 8 (1992), 53 – 63
5) Arheologija i antropologija (Archaeology and Anthropology), Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 9 (1993), 143 – 147
6) (with B.Govedarica and P.Popović) Praistorijsko naselje Klisura u Kadića Brdu - Istraživanja 1987-1990. - preliminarni izveštaj (The Praehistoric Settlement at Klisura-Kadića Brdo - Preliminary Report), Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja ANUBiH, Sarajevo (the manuscript accepted for publishing in 1992)
7) Written Sources in the Study of the Balkan Iron Age - Methodological Aspects (Pisani izvori u izučavanju gvozdenog doba Balkana - metodološki aspekti) Starinar 43 (1994), 125 – 128
8) Vrednost srebra u protoistorijskim zajednicama (The Value of Silver in Protohistoric Communities), Radionice i kovnice srebra (Silver Workshops and Mints), Narodni muzej, Beograd (1995), 71 – 76
9) Arheološka istraživanja grobova i nekropola, a chapter in the book of Marija Đurić-Srejić Uvod u fizičku antropologiju drevnih populacija (Introduction to the Physical Anthropology of Ancient Populations), Zavod za udžbenike i nastavna sredstva, Beograd (1995), 136 – 143
10) (with Aleksandar Palavestra) Dar i skrovišče - edna arheologičeska perspektiva (Gift and Treasure - An Archaeological Perspective), Gifts and Treasures - Spiritual Continuity in the Balkans, Southwestern University Neophyte Rilsky, Blagoevgrad (1998), 319 – 326
11) Kontakti kasnodinastičkog Egipta i arhajske Grčke - Napomene o monumentalnoj plastici (Contacts Between the Late-Dynastic Egypt and the Archaic Greece - References on Sculpture), Zbornik Filozofskog fakulteta, Beograd (1998), 113 – 120
12) Školska enciklopedija likovnih umetnosti (Encyclopaedia of visual arts for high-school students), Prosveta, Beograd (305 entries concerning praehistoric and classical archaeology and history of art of the Classical Period), in press
13) Humanizam Dragoslava Srejovića (The Humanism of Dragoslav Srejović), Rad Dragoslava Srejovića na istraživanju praistorije centralnog Balkana (1998), Kragujevac, 23 – 26
14) (with A.Palavestra) Northern Serbia in the second half of the first millenium BC - Socio-economic aspects, Le Đerdap a la deuxieme moitie du premier millenaire av. J.C. jusqu'aux guerres daciques, Archaeological Institute - Balkanological Institute, Belgrade (1999), 28 – 33
15) Headgear of the Early Iron Age Tribal Chieftains - Social and Symbolic Aspects, Zbornik Narodnog muzeja XVII, Beograd (2001), 83 – 93
16) The Greek Lion - Sketches on Mythology and Iconography, Vestigatio Vetustatis Aleksandrini Cermanović-Kuzmanović, Centre for Archaeological Research, Faculty of Philosophy, Belgrade (2001), 51 – 59
17) Janus on the Bridge – A Balkan attitude towards ancient Rome, Images of Rome – Perceptions of ancient Rome in Europe and the United States of America in the modern age , R.Hingley (ed.), Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplementary Series No. 44 (2002), 167 – 182
18) ‘Princely Graves’ of the Central Balkans - Critical history of research, Journal of European Archaeology V (1) (2002), 70 – 88
19) Still innocent after all these years?- Sketches for a social history of archaeology in Serbia, Archaologien Europas: Geschihte, Methoden und Theorien/Archaeologies of Europe: History, Methods and Theories, Tubinger Archaologische Taschenbucher, Band 3 (2002), 309 – 322
20) (with A. Palavestra) The princely graves landscape of the Central Balkans, Burial Customs in the Bronze and Iron Age, N. Bojović, M. Vasić (eds.), National Museum, Čačak – Archaeological Institute, Belgrade (2003), 203 – 209
21) (with I. Antić) Preliminarni rezultati tipološko – statističke obrade keramičkog materijala sa lokaliteta Kale – Krševica, Zbornik Narodnog muzeja XVIII – 1 (2005), Beograd, 213 – 227
22) Archaeology in Serbia – A Way Forward? Homage to Milutin Garašanin (2006), N. Tasić, C. Grozdanov (eds.), Belgrade: Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, 655 – 659
23) Iron Marshalltowns of the Balkans – Ethnography of an Archaeological Community, Godišnjak Centra za balkanološka ispitivanja XXXV, Sarajevo (2006), 115 – 124
24) Greeks, Barbarians and Archaeologists – Mapping the Contact, Ancient West and East 6 (2007), 73 – 89
25) "Translation Zones" or Gateway Communities Revisited: The case of Trebenište and Sindos, Praehistory across Borders – From Aegean to Baltic Seas, Aegeum 27 (2007), 57 – 61
26) Jezik arheologije II, ili: Kako sam preživela promenu paradigme (The Language of Archaeology II, or: How I survived the paradigm shift) , Etnoantropološki problemi 4/1 (2009), 123 – 132
27) Arheologija i etnicitet (Archaeology and Ethnicity), Etnoantropološki problemi 5/1 (2010), 137 - 149
28) Prošlost kao Drugi– Drugi kao prošlost (The Past as the Other – The Other as the Past), Etnoantropološki problemi 5/2 (2010), 259 - 268
29) Attributing Things Greek, British Archaeological Report (forthcoming)
B – Monographs
1) Poglavarstvo i polis – Starije gvozdeno doba centralnog Balkana i grčki svet (Chiefdom and Polis – Early Iron Age Cenral Balkans and the Greek World), Balkanološki institut SANU, Beograd (2004)
2) (coauthors M. Diaz Andreu, S. J. Lucy, D. Edwards) The Archaeology of Identity, Approaches to gender, age, status, ethnicity and religion, London and New York: Routledge (2005)
3) Grci i drugi – antička percepcija i percepcija antike (Greeks and Others – Ancient Perceptions and Perceptions of Antiquity), Beograd: Klio (2008)
C – Reviews and Rapports
1) Aleksandar Palavestra, Praistorijski ćilibar na centralnom i zapadnom Balkanu, Balkanološki institut SANU, knjiga 52, Beograd 1993 - Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 10 (1994), 215-216
2) Inauguralni sastanak Evropske asocijacije arheologa, Ljubljana, Slovenija, septembar 1994 - Glasnik Srpskog arheološkog društva 11 (1995), 319-320
3) Priča o dva grada – Šta je to svetski kongres arheologa? Etnoantropološki problemi 5/3 (2010)
D – Editorial
1) (with M.Tomović) Milutin Garašanin - Razgovori o arheologiji (Milutin Garašanin - Talking about Archaeology), 3T, Beograd (1994)