Sara Žerić
Sara Žerić has been a doctoral researcher at IOS Regensburg since 2021 working on her doctoral thesis "Gastarbeiters as agents of development in Socialist Yugoslavia". She has an M.A. in History from the University of Pula, Croatia. In July 2022, Sara Žerić joined the research project “Transnational Families, Farms and Firms: Migrant Entrepreneurs in Kosovo and Serbia Since the 1960s” at IOS Regensburg as a researcher. She is interested in the social history of socialist Yugoslavia, especially in the process of migration, modernization, and women’s history.
Ulf Brunnbauer
Ulf Brunnbauer is Academic Director of the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies (IOS) in Regensburg, Germany. He has a PhD in history from the University of Graz (1999) and a Habilitation from the Free University of Berlin (2006). In 2008 he was appointed Professor of the History of Southeast and East Europe at the University of Regensburg. His last book is the co-authored monograph In den Stürmen der Transformation. Zwei Werften zwischen Sozialismus und EU (Suhrkamp, 2022; an English translation is forthcoming with University of Toronto Press). Ulf Brunnbauer explores the social history of Southeastern Europe since the 19th century, with a focus on labor and migration.