Biography

Jelena Džankić is Part-Time Professor in the Global Governance Programme at the Robert Schuman Centre of the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, where she directs the Southeastern Europe research area and co-directs the Global Citizenship Observatory (GLOBALCIT). She holds a PhD in International Studies from the University of Cambridge and has held teaching and research positions at the University of Edinburgh, University College London, the University of Graz, and Passau University. She is the author of The Global Market for Investor Citizenship (Palgrave, 2019), a leading study on wealth-based citizenship acquisition. Her previous works include Citizenship in Bosnia-Herzegovina, Macedonia, and Montenegro: Effects of Statehood and Identity Challenges (Routledge, 2015), as well as the co-edited volumes A year later : war in Ukraine and Western Balkan (geo)politics (2023, with S. Kacerska and S. Keil), The Europeanisation of the Western Balkans: A Failure of EU Conditionality (2018, with S. Keil and M. Kmezic) and The Europeanisation of Citizenship Governance in South-East Europe (2016, with S. Kacarska and N. Pantic).

Personal webpages: GLOBALCIT, ORCID, CADMUS