Stanford University Online High School

Biography

Upon receiving her Ph.D. in History from Yale University, Jovana Knežević served as Acting Assistant Professor in the Stanford University Department of History, where she taught courses on the First World War, the Balkans, nationalism in the Habsburg Empire, and civilians in war in modern Europe. She also taught for the History of Mass Violence course in Stanford's Introduction to the Humanities Program. Knežević also has a background in international relations, and holds a B.S. in Foreign Service from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, as well as a diplome from her year of study at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris. Knežević joined EPGY in 2009, where she currently serves as Director of Information and Communication and also teaches advanced-level history courses at OHS.

Knežević’s research interests center on the social and cultural history of war, and her doctoral dissertation was on the Habsburg occupation of the Serbian capital of Belgrade during the First World War. She has published articles on the role of women in wartime and the role of rumors in information management under belligerent occupation.

In her free time, Jovana most enjoys spending time with her family, traveling, reading, engaging in any form of dance-inspired exercise, and baking desserts from her grandmother’s recipe book.

Courses Taught

International and Global History (OH030/031), The Two World Wars (UH040) and The Twentieth-Century World (UH042), Reconstructing the Past: Writing History with Primary Sources (Summer).

Publications

Knežević, Jovana. “Reclaiming their City: Belgraders and the Combat against Habsburg Propaganda through Rumours, 1915-1918,” in Stefan Goebel and Derek Keene (eds.), Cities into battlefields: The Metropolitan Dimension of Total War. Historical Urban Studies series (Aldershot: Ashgate, forthcoming 2011).

Knežević, Jovana. “Prostitutes as a Threat to National Honor in Habsburg Occupied Serbia, 1915-1918,” Journal of the History of Sexuality, Vol. 20 Issue 2 (May 2011): 312-335.

Knežević, Jovana. Review of Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I, Journal of Social History, Volume 39, Number 4 (Summer 2006): 1227-1229.

Knežević, Jovana. “Black Hand,” “Bosnia-Herzegovina,” “Montenegro,” “Serbia.” Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006).

Knežević, Jovana. “Albania,” “Belgrade,” “Draža Mihajlović,” “Ustaše.” Europe since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction. Ed. John Merriman and Jay Winter. (Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2006).

Knežević, Jovana. The Austro-Hungarian occupation of Belgrade during the First World War: Battles at the home front. Ph.D. dissertation, Yale University, 2006.