Dr. Ana Pajvancic-Cizelj

Dr. Ana Pajvančić-Cizelj, a Senior Scientist at the Department for European Policy and Study of Democracy, holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Novi Sad. Previously, she held positions as a Marie Skłodowska-Curie individual fellow at the Center for Southeast European Studies, University of Graz, Assistant/Associate professor at the Department of Sociology, Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, and a visiting researcher at the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences in Vienna, supported by an Austrian Academy of Sciences fellowship.

 Dr. Pajvančić-Cizelj is interested in the urban and spatial dimensions of Europeanization, democratization, and autocratization in (Southeast) Europe, as well as in feminist urbanism. Her work on these topics has been published in leading journals in her field, including East European Politics, Territory, Politics, Governance, and the European Journal of Women’s Studies. She is the author of two monographs: Global Urban Processes (Mediterran Publishing, 2017) and Spaces of Europeanization in the Balkans: Cities, Networks, and Urban Epistemic Communities (Routledge, 2025). In recognition of her exceptional research contributions in the Danube Region, Dr. Pajvančić-Cizelj was awarded the Danubius Mid-Career Award in 2024. In addition to her research, she serves as editor-in-chief of the journal Sociologija and as guest editor for Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

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