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CURRICULUM VITAE
NAME:
CONTACT DETAILS:
Ljubica Spaskovska
History Department
University of Exeter
Amory Building
Rennes Drive
Exeter EX4 4RJ
England UK
Phone numbers: +44 (0)7943608521; +389(0)70575418
E-mail address:
ls351@exeter.ac.uk; ljubiji@yahoo.com
PERSONAL DETAILS:
-Date of birth: 2 nd May 1981
-Gender: female
-Nationality: Macedonian
-Marital status: single
ACADEMIC HISTORY:
September 2010 – present: PhD candidate, College of Humanities,
University of Exeter, UK
June 2009: Central European University, Budapest - Hungary, Master of
Arts degree in Central European History with distinction
July 2008: Sarajevo Peace Academy, Bosnia-Herzegovina, “Civilizing
Nationalism - Pacification of the Region”
October 2007: University of Sarajevo/University of Bologna, Master of
Arts degree in Democracy and Human Rights
June 2007: Inter-University Centre of Post-Graduate Studies, Dubrovnik,
Croatia, Summer course “War Crimes, Genocide and Memories”
April 2007: CODAP (Youth Human Rights Resource Centre - Geneva,
Switzerland), Human Rights Training
2000 – 2005: University of Ss. Cyril and Methodius - Skopje, Bachelor
of Arts in Comparative Literature and French
2003/2004: Women (Gender) Studies, Women’s Centre of Macedonia
SOZM (participation and training in the Alternatives for Violence Project)
September 2003: University of Strasbourg, France, Transeuropéennes
Summer University on the Balkans, the post-conflict period and the EU enlargement
2002/2003: Duke University, USA, visiting student - Undergraduate
Exchange Program, Open Society Institute
WORK/VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE:
October 2010 – present: University of Exeter, U.K., “History Foundation”
seminar tutor
July 2009 – July 2010: University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.,
“Europeanization of Citizenship in the Successor States of the Former Yugoslavia”
(CITSEE), research fellow

January 2008 - May 2008: NGO DELTA for the Balkans, Pristina, R.
Kosovo, program officer
November/December 2007: wider NGO coalition, “Comparative analysis
of the legal aspects in Macedonia and the EU on sexual and health rights”, assistant and
co-author
February 2006 - April 2006: Poland, volunteer at the PEACE – Lesson of
Tolerance project organized by AIESEC and the UNDP (teaching MDGs in Polish highschools)
November 2005 - June 2006: Macedonian Academy of Sciences and
Arts, part-time junior project assistant
August 2002 - May 2003: Duke University Libraries, USA, student
assistant
2000/2001 - European Youth Forum AEGEE (Association des Etats
Généraux des Etudiants de l’Europe), active board-member
October/November 1999: OSCE/ODIHR mission in Skopje, Macedonia,
interpreter/translator
PUBLISHED WORKS
Academic Papers/Chapters/Book Reviews:
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “Landscapes of Triumph, Memory and Loss: Yugoslav
Supra-Nationalism and Anti-Nationalism”. In: Bojan Bilic and Vesna Jankovic,
Eds. Resisting the Evil: (Post) Yugoslav Anti-War Contention (Nomos),
forthcoming 2012.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “The Fractured ‘We’ and the Ethno-National ‘I’: the
Macedonian Citizenship Framework”, Citizenship Studies, forthcoming 2012.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “Stairway to Hell – the Yugoslav Rock Scene and Youth
during the Crisis Decade 1981-1991”, East Central Europe 38 (2011): 355-372.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “Book Review: ‘Macedonia and the Macedonians: a
History’”, Southeastern Europe 34/2 (2010): 260-262(3).
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “In Search of a Demos: Transformations of Citizenship and
Belonging in the Republic of Macedonia”, CITSEE Working Paper Series
2010/11.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “Macedonia’s Nationals, Minorities and Refugees in the
Post-Communist Labyrinths of Citizenship”, CITSEE Working Paper Series
2010/05.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “The Glocal Entrapment - on the Phenomenon of Poverty
in a Global Context”, SEEU Review 4/2 (2008): 123-139.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “ReCommuNaissance - on the Phenomenon of Communist
Nostalgia in Slovenia and Poland”, Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
17/1 (2008): 136-150.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “Under the Waves of the Ocean of Consciousness - on the
Phenomenon of Remorse of Consciousness in Ulysses by James Joyce.”
Mirage, 19/2008.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “The Cry of the Black World – on Certain Aspects of
Beloved by Tony Morrison”, Mirage, electronic magazine, 11/2005.

Newspaper Articles:
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “On Temples and Other Demons”, Globus weekly, 2010.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “The Shine and Misery of Ethnic Entrepreneurs”, Nova
Makedonija (Macedonian Daily Newspaper). 18 th July, 2009.
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “The ‘Human’ in Human Rights”, Novi Pogledi - Journal of
the Alumni Association of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Studies
(ACIPS) Vol. 12 (2008).
• Spaskovska, Ljubica. “Looking Away from Workers’ Rights”, Dnevnik
(Macedonian Daily Newspaper), 21 st July, 2007.
Translated books:
• Houellebecq, Michel. La Possibilité d’une île (translated from French into
Macedonian by Ljubica Spaskovska). Skopje: TRI, 2007.
• Echenoz. Jean. Un An (translated from French into Macedonian by Ljubica
Spaskovska). Skopje: Templum, 2006.
Fiction:
• Spaskovska. Ljubica. Matisse’s Snail, short stories. Skopje: Matica Makedonska,
2006.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS:
- Languages:
Macedonian- native
English – professionally fluent
French – professionally fluent
Serbo-Croat – fluent
Spanish- intermediate