Sandra Grudić

Results-driven professional with extensive experience in teaching, professional development, and program administration. Adept at managing multiple projects simultaneously and known for improving operational workflows. Strong focus on team collaboration and achieving results, with excellent problem-solving skills and adaptability.

• “Local Voices, New Perspectives: Rethinking the Yugoslav Wars Through Microhistory,” roundtable discussion with Max Bergholz, Fedja Burić and Marko Kljajić, Harvard University, February 19, 2026.
• “Sites of Atrocity – Local Dimensions of Violence in Detention Centers in Bosanski Novi during the 1990s War in Bosnia and Herzegovina,” The 57th ASEEES Annual Convention, Washington, DC, November 20 – 23, 2025.
• “Microhistory of Neighborly Violence and its Global Circulation: Misunderstanding Komšiluk,” Yugoslav Wars and Post-Yugoslav Space Thirty Years After: Between History, Memory and Law, Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) Centre for International Criminal Justice, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, April 2025.
• “Challenges Encountered in the Study of Neighborhood Violence in Bosnia and Beyond,” The 56th ASEEES Annual Convention, Boston, MA, November 21 – 24, 2024.
• “Ethnic Disinterest: Neighborly Relations in a Bosnian Town Before the War,” Ninth Global Conference of the International Network Genocide Scholars (INoGS), June 23-26, 2024, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA.
• “Men and Masculinities in the Bosnian War and Genocide,” Eight Global Conference of the International Network Genocide Scholars (INoGS), June 26-28, 2022, Mexico City, Mexico.
• “Reconstructing Bosnian Komšiluk,” Balkan Express 2021: Neighborhood and Neighborhood in the Balkans, Conference held November 12 -13 2021, Prague, Czech Republic (virtual).
• “Sexual Violence during Bosnian war and Holocaust” 15th Biannual Conference of the International Association of Genocide Scholars, 18-23 July 2021, Barcelona, Spain (virtual).
• When Neighbors Turned: The Undoing of Community in Wartime Bosnia, Monograph, under review with Cornell University Press.
• Grudić, Sandra. 2025. “Understanding Bosnian Komšiluk: A Study of Neighbourhood Dynamics and Violence.” Journal of Genocide Research, December, 1–23. doi:10.1080/14623528.2025.2594837.
• “Local Dimensions of Violence in Detention Centers in Bosanski Novi during the 1990s War in Bosnia and Herzegovina” under review with the Journal of Contemporary History.

• HARVARD UNIVERSITY, CAMBRIDGE, MA, Education Outreach Administrator.
• Designing and teaching high school and college classes and workshops.
• COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS, WORCESTER, MA, Visiting faculty at the Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, Spring 2024.
• Teaching CIS 392, The Holocaust Seminar.
• CLARK UNIVERSITY, Teaching Assistant for Professor Asya Darbinyan in HIST 130, Introduction to History of Genocide – Spring 2023.
• CLARK UNIVERSITY, Teaching Assistant for Professor Frances Tanzer in HIST 118 Revolutionary Europe – Fall 2022.
• CLARK UNIVERSITY, Teaching assistant for Professor Elizabeth Imber in HIST 121 Jewish History after 1492 class – Spring 2022.
• CLARK UNIVERSITY, Teaching Assistant for Professor Janette T. Greenwood in HIST 016 American Race and Ethnicity class – Fall 2021.

• Educator in-Person Workshops, AY 2024-2025:
• Sources From Ukraine: (Re)structuring Place, Memory, and Nature with Victoria Donovan, Igor Ekštajn, Sofia Dyak, Ivanna Cherchovych, and Alexander Langstaff.
• Using an Analytical Approach to Primary Sources in the Classroom with Alexis Peri, and Cynthia Hooper.
• History’s Many Voices: Learning How Visual Sources Speak, with Kelly O’Neill, Abigail Lewis, and Iva Sídach.
• Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship 2024-2025, theme “Identity.”
• Seven webinars and curriculum development.
• Teaching with Primary Sources – Webinar Series for Educators, spring 2025.
• Teaching with Maps, with Kelly O’Neill.
• Primary Source Analysis Using the OPCVL Method.
• AI in the History Classroom: From Dangerous Image to Deep Insight, with Kelly O’Neill.
• Genocide Education – Webinar Series, Spring 2025.
• Genocide Education: Webinar 1 — The Dos, Don’ts, and Hows of Genocide Education.
• Genocide Education: Webinar 2 — The Camera as a Weapon with Abigail Lewis.
• Educator in-Person Workshops, AY 2025-2026:
• Russia Reimagined: Engaging Students Through Games and Gardens, with Kelly O’Neill and Alexis Peri.
• Teaching the Holodomor: Inclusive Literacy Workshop, with Serhii Plokhii, and Nicole Richardson.
• Engaging Eurasia Teacher Fellowship 2025-2026, theme “Eurasian Environments.”
• September 2025 – June 2026, seven webinars and curriculum development.
• The Arts of Eastern Europe and Eurasia Webinar Series, October 2025-March 2026.
• Interdisciplinary Strategies for Teaching Traditional Cultural Heritage, with Iryna Voloshyna.
• Russian Ballet, with Daria Khitrova.
• Bringing the Sounds of Eastern Europe and Eurasia into the Classroom, with Danielle Sekel.
• Ukrainian Pysanky: A Journey Through History and Symbolism into Today's Classroom, with Megan Luttrell.
• Power, Protest, and Daringness: Snapshots from a Century of Russian and East European Theater, with Alisa Ballard Lin.
• From Lullabies to Naive Art: Culture, Memory, and Resilience, with Nataliia Bondarenko.
• Genocide Education – Professional Development Series for Worcester Public Schools, November 2025 – March 2026.
• Do’s Don’ts and Hows of Genocide Education.
• Teaching about Genocide with Primary Sources, with Diana Hayrapetyan.
• Armenian Genocide, with Diana Hayrapetyan.
• Bosnian Genocide.
• Cambodian Genocide, with Ken MacLean.
• Holocaust in Southeastern Europe Curriculum Writing Fellowship, October 2025 to April 2026, six lectures and Curriculum writing.
• “The Holocaust in Southeast Europe in Comparative Perspective,” with Lovro Kralj and Nevio Rejter.
• “Ideologies of the Holocaust: The Case of Southeast Europe,” with Danijel Matijević.
• “Camps in the Independent State of Croatia in Comparative Perspective,” with Emil Kjerte.
• “Art and Culture in the Independent State of Croatia,” with Alina Bojić.
• “The Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Politics,” with Vjeran Pavlaković.
• “The Politics and Legacies of Contested Symbols,” with Katarina Damčević.
• Literacy Webinar Series, with Nicole Richardson, Spring 2026.
• Teaching for Retention in Social Studies.
• Unlocking Complex Text.
• Making Writing Manageable.

• “Origins of the Bosnian War and Genocide” and “Neighborhood Violence in Bosnia”, Taner Akçam’s course, Introduction to the History of Genocide (HIST 130), Clark University, Fall 2021and Spring 2022.
• “Surviving the Bosnian War and Genocide”, Frances Tanzer’s course, Europe in the Age of Extremes, Clark University, Spring 2022.
• “Origins of the Bosnian War and Genocide”, Sultan Dougan’s course, Racism and Anti-Semitism, Clark University, Spring 2022.
• “Genocide and Rescue Efforts in Yugoslavia During World War II”, Elizabeth Imber’s course, Jewish History, Clark University, Spring 2022.
• “Messiness of Belonging: Experiencing My Multifaceted Bosnian Refugee Identity”, Belonging Talks Webinar Series, August 9, 2023.
• Response to Ken MacLean’s paper, “The Historiographic Value of Conspirational Fantasies,” Second Colloquium, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, September 14, 2023.
• “Using Primary Sources in History Classroom,” The New Hampshire Council for the Social Studies Social Studies Education Professional Development Conference, November 15, 2024.
• Lectures on the Holocaust, Bosnian war and Genocide, and Neighborhood Violence – at Newton High School, Framingham High School, Dover Sherborn High School, May 2025.
• “Sexual Violence during the Holocaust and Bosnian Genocide”, Clark University, scheduled for September 17, 2025.
• “Neighborhood Violence in Bosnia and Herzegovina During the 1990s”, West Point Military Academy, NY, scheduled for November 5, 2025.

• Shirley and Ralph Rose Fellowship, 2020 – 2025.
• ASEEES (The Association for Slavic, Eastern European, and Eurasian Studies) Summer Dissertation Research Grant.
• American Councils Title VIII Research Scholar Program (2023-24).

·  When Neighbors Turned: The Undoing of Community in Wartime Bosnia, Monograph, under review with Cornell University Press.

·  Grudić, Sandra. 2025. “Understanding Bosnian Komšiluk: A Study of Neighbourhood Dynamics and Violence.” Journal of Genocide Research, December, 1–23. doi:10.1080/14623528.2025.2594837.

·  “Local Dimensions of Violence in Detention Centers in Bosanski Novi during the 1990s War in Bosnia and Herzegovina” under review with the Journal of Contemporary History.