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Milica is an environmental historian and visual artist from Belgrade, Serbia. She completed her PhD training at the University of Bristol, where she wrote a history of Goli otok (Barren Island) - the master political prison and forced labour camp of socialist Yugoslavia. Her thesis won the Rachel Carson Prize for Best Dissertation (2018). Milica also holds degrees from the Central Saint Martins College (London), and from the Faculty of Visual Arts (Belgrade). Through her art practice, she explores ways to communicate scientific research to the wider public. In collaboration with the UoB Quantum Engineering and Technology Labs, she has worked on a series of outreach projects, including a graphic novel about the history of quantum communication. These projects won several awards, including the EPSRC Impact Acceleration Account (2018). Milica is joining the RCC from the European University Institute (Florence), where she was a Max Weber Fellow (2019-2020), exploring embodied histories of women combatants in the South- Western Balkans. At the RCC, she will revisit her doctoral research theme, exploring the transforming ‘natures’ of prison islands as laboratories of environmental and societal processes.
RCC Research Project: Petrified Bodies, Humanised Stone: Embodied Environmental History of the Goli otok (Barren Island) Political Prison
Selected Publications:
- "’Saints', 'Brothers’, Comrades: Embodied Environmental Histories of Women - Combatants in the South-Western Balkans." European University Institute, Cadmus EUI Research Repository, 2020 (forthcoming).
- with the University of Bristol Quantum Engineering and Technology Labs and UoB Centre for Public Engagement. Light Keys: A Journey to Quantum Communication. Volume 1 (graphic novel). Bristol: QET Labs, 2019.
- "Contrasting the 'Sunny Side': Goli otok and the Islandness of the Political Prison in Croatian Adriatic." In Environmentalism in Central and Southeastern Europe, edited by Hrvoje Petric and Ivana Zebec Silj, 197-222. Lanham, Boulder, New York, London: Lexington Books, 2017.
- "Eco-historical Aspects of Studying the Goli otok Labour Camp, 1945- 1956." Economic and Ecohistory - Journal for Economic and Environmental History 12, no. 1 (2016): 186-196.