AIDA
A. HOZIC
5915 NW 43rd
Lane
Gainesville,
FL 32606
352-367-1771
ACADEMIC
APPOINTMENTS
University
of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Assistant
Professor,
Department of Political Science, 2001-present
Central European University, Budapest, Hungary
Visting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and
Department of International Relations and European Studies (Winter and
Spring of 2006
and Winter, 2007)
Cornell
University, Ithaca, New York
MacArthur
Fellow,
Institute for European Studies, 2000-2001 (Visiting Fellow, 1999-2000)
Visiting
Assistant
Professor, Department of Government, Summer 2000.
Ithaca
College, Ithaca, New York
Assistant
Professor,
Department of Politics, 1999-2000 (non-tenure track).
Hobart
and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York
Visiting
Assistant
Professor, Department of Political Science, 1998-99.
University
of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Teaching
Assistant,
1990-1992; Instructor, 1992-1995; Lecturer, 1998. Department of
Politics.
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
with Distinction, Department
of Politics, University of
Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia, August 1997.
Subfield
examinations
in theory of international relations, modern political theory and
comparative
politics.
Dissertation:
The
Rise of the Merchant Economy: Industrial Change in the American Film
Industry.
Committee: Herman Schwartz (chair), John Echeverri-Gent, Leonard
Schoppa,
Eric Lott (Department of English).
M.A in
International Affairs., The
Johns Hopkins University, Nitze
School
of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna,
Italy, May 1989.
Thesis,
directed
by Gianfranco Pasquino: The Origins of Left-Wing Terrorism in
Western
Europe: Social and Political Consequences of the 1968 Student Protests.
Diploma
(B.A.) summa
cum laude, Faculty of Philosophy, University
of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, October 1985.
Concentration
in contemporary continental philosophy, social theory and literary
criticism.
PUBLICATIONS
Books
Hollyworld:
Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy (Cornell
University
Press, Ithaca, NY, 2001)
Journal
Articles
“Balkan Merchants,” Ethnopolitics,
(forthcoming in 5:2, Fall 2006)
“Between
the Cracks:
Balkan Cigarette Smuggling,” Problems of Post-Communism, 51:3,
May/June
2004, pp.35-44
“Zoning,
or How to
Govern (Cultural) Violence?” Cultural Values, Volume 6, Number
1,
2002, pp. 183-195.
“’Hello,
My Name is…’
Articulating Loneliness in a Digital Diaspora,” Afterimage,
(special
issue on media representation of Balkan wars), Volume 28, Number 4,
January
2001, pp. 21-22.
“Uncle
Sam Goes
to Siliwood: Of Landscapes, Spielberg and Hegemony,” in Review of
International
Political Economy, Volume 6, Number 3, August 1999, pp. 289-312.
“The
House I Live In:
An Interview With Charles Burnett,” Callaloo: A Journal of
African-American
and African Arts and Letters, Volume 17, Number 2, 1994, pp. 471-91.
Articles
in Edited
Volumes
“Merchants, Crime and Sovereignty
in the Balkans,” in
Douglas Howland and Luise White (eds.) Art
of the State: Sovereignty Past and Present (Indiana University
Press,
forthcoming)
“Representing
Homeland Security,” in Charles-Philippe David
and David Grondin (eds.) Hegemony or
Empire: Redefinition of American Power Under George W. Bush
(Ashgate, London,
2006)
“Forbidden
Places,
Tempting Spaces, and Politics of Desire: On Stalker and Beyond”
in Jutta Weldes (ed.) To Seek Out the New Worlds: Science
Fiction
and International Relations, (Palgrave Macmillan, London and New
York,
2003)
“Political
Economy
of Global Culture” in Michael Brint and Reneo Lukic (eds.), Culture,
Politics, Nationalism (Ashgate Press, London, 2001), pp. 55-78.
“Making
of the
Unwanted Colonies: Un-Imagining Desire,” in Jodi Dean (ed.) Political
Theory and Cultural Studies (Cornell University Press, Ithaca,
2000),
pp. 228-240.
“Hollywood
Goes on
Sale,” in David Desser and Garth Jowett (eds.), Hollywood Goes
Shopping
(University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, 2000), pp. 312-332.
“The
Inverted World
of Spectacle” in John Orr and Dragan Klaic (eds.) Terrorism and
Modern
Drama (University of Edinburgh Press, Edinburgh, 1990), pp. 64-81.
Book
Reviews
The Digital Sublime: Myth, Power, and
Cyberspace, by VIncent Mosco and Hollywood, the Pentagon and Washington: The Movies and National
Security from World War II to the Present Day, in Millennium, 34:3 (August
2006), pp. 967-970
The Political Economy of Peacebuilding in
Post-Dayton Bosnia, by Timothy Donais, in Slavic Review, 65:3 (Fall 2006)
Case
Studies
“Italy:
A Difficult Economy,” UVA-F-1245, © University of Virginia
Darden
School Foundation, Charlottesville, 1998) Darden Business School,
Charlottesville,
Virginia, Summer 1998.
*Also:
“Who
Needs the New Economy?” (with Herman Schwartz) Salon,
March 16, 2001
And a
number of articles
published between 1985 and 1989 in newspapers, magazines and literary
journals
of the former Yugoslavia (Vjesnik, Zagreb, Croatia; NIN and
Student,
Belgrade, Serbia; Mladina, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Izraz, Odjek,
Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina).
AWARDS
AND FELLOWSHIPS
Fulbright Lecturing
and Research Award, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Faculty of Political
Science, Sarajevo, 2006-2007
ISA
Workshop Grant, 2005 Competition, for the workshop on
“Interstices of Sovereignty,” (with Samuel J.Barkin) to be held in Budapest, spring
of 2006
Global and Transational
Studies Research Circle Award (15,000 US dollars, part of the
UF Title VI Grant Award), 2003-2006
Global and
Transational Studies Small Research Grant, Summer 2003 and 2005
Departmental
Research
Award, Summer 2003 and 2006
SWAMOS
(Summer
Workshop on Military Operations and Strategy), organized by the
Institute
for War and Peace, Columbia University and held at Cornell University,
Ithaca, July 11-30, 2004
Book
nominated for Doris Graber Award, APSA, Political Communication
Section, Spring
2003
CLAS
Travel Award,
Fall 2003
Institute
for Turkish
Studies, Georgetown University, Research Travel Grant for field
work
in Turkey, Summer 2002
Humanities
Enhancement
Fellowship, University of Florida, Summer 2002
NEH
Summer Seminar,
“The Post-socialist Experience,” conducted by Valerie Bunce, Cornell
University,
Summer 2001
Open
Society Fellowship
for research in the archives located in Budapest, Hungary, Summer 2001.
The
John D. and
Katherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Research and Writing Grant,
2000-2001.
IREX
Short Term
Travel Grant, June 2000 Competition.
Dumas
Malone Fellowship,
Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation, 1993-1994.
DuPont
Fellowship,
University of Virginia, 1989-1993.
C.
Grove Haines
Award for an outstanding M.A. Thesis, The Johns Hopkins University,
1989.
Ministry
of Foreign
Affairs of the Republic of Italy Fellowship, Università de
la
Sapienza, Rome, 1989.
SAIS-Bologna
Center
Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University, 1987-89.
TEACHING
AWARDS
Anderson
Scholar Faculty
Award, 2003, 2004, 2005
Nominated
for the UF Alumni Association’s Distinguished Alumni Professor Award,
Spring
2005
Nominated
for CLAS
Advising Award, Fall 2004
University
Scholar
Mentor, University of Florida 2003-2004
INVITED
CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL LECTURES
Roundtable participant, “Balkan
Arts: Beyond Good and Evil,” Central European University, Budapest, Hungary,
February 15, 2006
“Merchants, Crime
and Sovereignty in the Balkans.” Paper
presented at the conference “Art of the State: Sovereignty Past and
Present,”
Center for 21st Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee,
October 21-22,2005
“Taxation Policy
and Informal Economies: the New Age of Empires?”
Invited talk at Bogazici
University, Turkey,
Istanbul,
June 8, 2005.
“Conundrums of
Human Trafficking.” Paper presented at the
workshop “Trafficking
and Human Security in the Western Balkans,” held at the Ford Institute
for
Human Security, University of
Pittsburgh, May 13-15, 2005.
“Imperial
Taxation.” Paper presented at the conference
“Colonial Experiences and Colonial Legacies: Comparing Eastern Europe
and
Sub-Saharan Africa,” Cornell University, Ithaca,
May 6-7, 2005.
“Propaganda and
Empire: American Cultural Hegemony and the
Bush Administration.” Paper presented at the conference on “The
Redefinition of
American Power Under George W. Bush: Understanding US Hegemony in the
World
Order and Its Regional Dimensions,” Observatoire sur les Etats-Unis,
Chaire
Raoul-Dandurand en études stratégiques et diplomatiques, Université du Quebec Montreal, Canada, February
25-26, 2005
“On the Edges of
Empires,” Paper presented at the conference
on “Transnationalism in the Balkans: The Emergence, Nature and Impact
of
Cross-National Linkages on an Enlarged and Enlarging Europe”, London School of Economics, London, UK,
November 26-27, 2004.
Invited discussant
and round table participant at the
conference on "Immigration, Ethnic Communities and Host Societies:
Perspectives
from Europe," organized by Florida Network for Global Studies, Florida International University, Miami,
May 13-15, 2005.
"Balkan
Tobacco Roads,"
Watson Institute for International Studies, Brown University,
May
6, 2003
"Resurrecting
Old Merchant
Routes in the Balkans," Paper presented at the 4th Mediterranean Social
and Political Research Meeting, Workshop on Mediterranean Merchants, European
University, Florence, 19-23rd March, 2003 (also workshop
co-director)
“Mediterranean
Merchants,” The
Johns Hopkins University, Bologna, Italy, March 17, 2003
“Representing
Homeland
Security: Hitchcock, Hollywood, and the State,” University of
Virginia,
Charlottesville, February 7, 2003
“From
Virtual to Virtuous
Security: US Media and War From Gulf War I to Gulf War II,” Honors
College
Harry Schaleman Lecture, University of South Florida, St.
Petersburg,
November 21, 2002
“Re-building the National Security State: US
Media and
War,” Central European University, Budapest, November 15, 2002
Roundtable on the US Midterm Elections (with
Richard Scher)
,” Central European University, Budapest, November 14, 2002
Roundtable on the US Midterm Elections (with
Richard Scher)
,” University of Debrecen, Debrecen,, November 13, 2002
“The
Balkan Merchants:
resurrecting the Old Trade Routes in Southeastern Europe,” Einaudi
Lectures,
Seminar on “Remembering Europe,” Cornell University, October
17,
2002
“Virtual
Security from
The Gulf War to Afghanistan, “ (invited participant), conference on
“Media
Practice and Performance Across Cultures,” University of
Wisconsin-Madison,
March 14-17 2002
“Hollowed
or Destroyed:
State in Yugoslavia after Yugoslavia,” Program on International Studies
in Planning, Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell
University,
March 2001.
Invited
participant,
conference on “Communication and Cooperation Between Yugoslavia's
Successor
States: Efforts and Constraints of Post-Ethnonationalism,” Watson
Institute
for International Studies, Brown University, February 2-3, 2001
CONFERENCES/PRESENTATIONS
“Limits of Representation.” Paper
presented at the workshop
“Social Construction and International Studies,” held at Florida International University, Miami,
November
7,2005.
“Paradoxes of
Sovereignty in the Balkans,” International Studies
Association – South, Miami,
November 3-5, 2005
"On the Tobacco Roads of Southeastern
Europe," International
Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004
"Balkan Trade Routes," CEEISA/ISA Meeting,
Budapest, Hungary, June 26-28, 2003
“Balkan Merchants,” International
Studies Association,
Portland, February 25-March 2, 2003
“Re-building
the National
Security State,” American Political Science Association,
Boston,
August 29-September 2, 2002
“Forbidden
Places,
Tempting Spaces, and the Politics of Desire,” International Studies
Association, New Orleans, March 2002
“What
Culture? Why
Culture? Why Now?” International Studies Association, Chicago,
Illinois,
February 2001.
“State
Without Politics/Politics
Without the State: Reconstructing Bosnia After Dayton” (With V. P.
Gagnon), International
Conference of the Europeanists, Chicago, Illinois, March 2000.
“’Hello,
My Name Is...’:
Articulating Loneliness in a Digital Diaspora," Society for Cinema
Studies
Conference, Chicago, Illinois, March 2000.
“Broadcasting
Genocide: Hollywood, Violence, and the Construction of War Zones" International
Studies Association, Los Angeles, California, March 2000.
“World as
a Studio:
Politics of Space and Place in Global Media Industries,” American
Political
Science Association, Atlanta, Georgia, September, 1999.
“WarZones/CinemaScapes,”
Cinema
and the City Conference, Dublin, Ireland, March, 1999.
“Introducing
Reflexivity:
Teaching IPE with James Cameron,” International Studies Association,
Washington, D.C., February 1999.
“Producing
Difference:
Why Culture Does (not) Matter?” Society for Cinema Studies
Conference,
San Diego, California, April 1998.
“Making
of the Unwanted
Colonies,” International Studies Association, Minneapolis,
Minnesota,
March 1998.
“Democratization
in
Eastern Europe and the NIS” (with Aaron Presnall), The Third
International
Conference of the New or Restored Democracies on Democracy and
Development,
sponsored by the United Nations, Bucharest, Romania, September
1997.
“New
Institutionalism
and Knowledge Industries,” American Political Science Association,
Washington, D.C., August 1997.
“Uncle
Sam Goes To
Siliwood: Of Hegemony, Mercantilism, Path Dependency and Disney,”
International
Studies Association, Toronto, Canada, March 1997.
“Comprehending
Social
Change: Markets, Networks, Hierarchies,” Northeast Political
Science
Association, Boston, Massachusetts, 1996.
“A Dying
Godzilla:
Hollywood and Japan in the Age of Global Entertainment,” International
Studies Association, San Diego, California, 1996.
“Controlled
Environments
as a Paradigm of Social Change,” 20th Annual Conference on Social
Theory,
Politics and the Arts, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1994.
“Terrorism
as a Spectacle,”
International Symposium on Politics and Terrorism in Modern Drama,
Dubrovnik, Croatia, August 1988.
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
Discussant, panel on “Global
Governance”, workshop on “Social
Construction and International Studies,” held at Florida International University, Miami,
November
7, 2005.
Section chair,
Foreign Policy, Florida Political Science Association,
Florida State University,
Tallahassee,
March 12, 2005.
Invited
discussant,
panel on "Bosnia's Democratization and Nation-building Failures:
Hegemonial
Misperceptions?," International Studies Association, Montreal,
Canada,
March 17-21, 2004
Invited
discussant,
panel on "Beyond Power/Knowledge: Power and memory in World Politics," International
Studies Association, Montreal, Canada,
March 17-21,
2004
Invited
chair and discussant,
panel on "Framing the Discourse: Media and Movements," International
Studies Association, Montreal, Canada, March 17-21, 2004
Discussant,
panel on
"Critical Interpretations of Contemporary U.S. Hegemony," ISA-South,
Gainesville, October 17-18, 2003
Discussant,
panel on
"The Spread of Democratic Norms," ISA-South, Gainesville,
October
17-18, 2003
Invited
discussant,
panel on "Transnational Crime and Conflict in the Balkans," CEEISA/ISA
Meeting, Budapest, Hungary June 26-28, 2003
Workshop
Co-director
(with Mine Eder, Bogazici University) “Mediterranean
Merchants: Politics, Economics and Culture of Informal Trade Networks,”European
University Institute, Florence, March 19-23, 2003
Roundtable organizer and chair, “Our Enemies
and US,” International
Studies Association, Portland, February 25-March 1, 2003
Discussant,
panel “Effects
of Technology and Globalization on Cultural Identity,” American
Political
Science Association, August 29-September 2, 2002
Discussant,
panel “Narrating
War,” International Studies Association, New Orleans, March 2002
Discussant,
conference
on “Knowledge and Power in International Relations,” University of
Florida,
March 2002
Invited
discussant,
Theme Panel, “Social Sciences and Inequality,” International
Studies
Association, Chicago, February, 2001.
Invited
discussant,
panel on “The Yugoslav War Film,” Association for the Study of the
Nationalities, Columbia
University, New York, April 2000.
Panel
organizer and
chair, “Politics Beyond State/State Beyond Politics: Europe at the
Millennium,” International
Conference of the Europeanists, Chicago, March 2000
Panel
organizer, “Hollywood
and the World: Site of Power, Sites of Resistance,” American
Political
Science Association, Atlanta, September 1999.
Panel
organizer and
chair, “Making of the Unwanted Colonies,” International Studies
Association,
Minnesota, 1998.
Discussant,
panel on
“Generating Economic Cooperation in an Anarchic World,”
International
Studies Association, San Diego, California, 1996.
Reviewer
for Cornell
University Press, University of Minnesota Press, Temple
University
Press, Rowman and Littlefield, Journal of Politics,
International
Organization, National Academies, NSF
Editorial
Board Member, Review of Radical Political Economy (also a
member of
the editorial
collective for special issue on Political Economy of the Arts)
Editorial
Board Member, Journal of International Relations and Development
CAMPUS
AND COMMUNITY
PRESENTATIONS
“Women in International Relations,
presentation given at the
forum on “Women in Academia,” Women’s History Month Celebrations, University
of Florida, March
23, 2005
“Women
Trafficking,” presentation given to the Gainesville
chapter of American Association of
University
Women, Gainesville,
March 19, 2005
Keynote Speaker,
VISA International Month Opening
Ceremonies, University
of Florida, March
15,
2005
Presentation,
"Women
Trafficking in Europe" Hillsborough County K-12 Teachers Workshop,
Outreach
Program for the Center of European Studies, University of Florida,
February
2004
Presentation
"The Impact
of Culture and Ethics on the Present Situation around the World" to the
Wedgworth Leadership Institute, IFAS, University of Florida, May, 2003
Commentator,
“No Man’s
Land,” (film about Bosnia) Pi Sigma Alpha Film Festival, Department of
Political Science, University of Florida, February 4, 2003
Commentator,
“Calling
the Ghosts” (film on rape as war-crime), Concerned Citizens for Peace
and
Understanding Semi-Annual Meeting, Cornell University, Ithaca,
NY,
April 2000.
Discussant,
"Gabbeh"
and "Imagining Islam", special film screenings in collaboration with
the
Center for the Study of Culture, Race and Ethnicity as part of its
Discussion
Series on Islam, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, October 1999.
Keynote
Speaker, Annual
Banquet, League of Women Voters, Geneva, NY, June 1999.
Co-organizer
(with
Jodi Dean), panel discussion, "Star Wars, Episode One: Is Phantom
Menace
Racist?" Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY, June
1999.
Discussant,
panel on
“Globalization and Media,” Globalization and Gender Conference, Hobart
and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, New York, May 1999.
Invited
Speaker, “How
the West Has Won?” URPE Regional Meeting, Cornell University,
Ithaca,
New York, May 1999.
Panelist,
"Kosovo:
Can Bombs Bring Peace?," Hobart and William Smith Colleges,
Geneva,
NY, April 1999.
“Maps,
Photographs
and Construction of Identity,” respondent to Michael Sells (Haveford
College),
Colloquium on the Bosnian Conflict, Brown College, University of
Virginia,
Charlottesville, February, 1997.
CAMPUS
AND COMMUNITY SERVICE
Rhodes,
Mitchell, Marshall
Scholarship Selection Committee, Fall 2005
Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee, Fall 2005
Member, College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee,
2004-2006, University
of Florida
Mentor, Women's Leadership
Council and the Mentoring Program, 2004-2005, University
of Flrida
Preview Advisor, University
of Florida,
Summer 2003,
2004, 2005
Fulbright Scholarship Selection Committee Member, University of Florida,
Fall 2004
Member, Robert J. Woods Scholarship Selection Committee,
Center for European Studies, Cornell University,
Fall 1999
Member, Human Rights Commission, City of Geneva, NY
1998-2000
Member, Independent Film Selection Panel, Virginia Festival
of American Film, University of Virginia, 1995-1998
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
Member, African Politics Search Committee, Fall 2005
Undergraduate advisor, Fall 2005
Member and Chair, Chair Advisory
Committee, 2004-2005
Member, Best Undergraduate Paper
Award Committee, 2005
Advisor, Pi Sigma Alpha
Chapter of
the University
of Florida (Fall
2002 –
present)
Member, Best Honors Thesis
Committee, 2004
Member, Undergraduate
Committee,
2003-2004
Member-at-Large, Chair
Advisory
Committee, 2002-2003
Member, Political Theory
Search
Committee, Fall 2002
Member, Best Graduate
Student Paper
Selection Committee, Spring 2002
Member, Governance
Committee, 2001-
2002
Library Liaison, 2001-2003
LANGUAGES
Serbo-Croatian
(and variants of it - Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian), Italian --
fluent
French,
Spanish --
reading knowledge
Hungarian
- elementary