Department of Religious Studies
Faculty
Milica Bakić-Hayden
Visiting Lecturer
PhD, University of Chicago, 1997
2612 Cathedral of Learning
412.624.5989
e-mail
Fields
Religion and society in the Balkans and South Asia, topics in comparative religion
Teaching
Eastern Orthodoxy, Mysticism East and East, Saints East and West, Religions of India
Selected Publications
"Two Methods of Contemplation: Yoga and Hesychast Prayer," Glasnik Etnografskog Instituta SANU (Herald of the Ethnographic Institute of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts) LV/2 (2008)
Varijacije na temu 'Balkan' [Variations on the Theme 'Balkans'], Belgrade: Filip Višnjić, 2006
"Kosovo: Reality of a Myth and Myth of Many Realities," in Serbien und Montenegro, Vienna: Österreichische Osthefte, 2006
"The Aesthetics of Theosis: Uncovering the Beauty of Image," in Aesthetics as a Religious Factor in Eastern and Western Christianity, edited by W. van den Bercken and J. Sutton, Leuven: Peeters Publishers, 2006
"National Memory as Narrative Memory: The Case of Kosovo" in National Memory in Southeastern Europe, edited by Maria Todorova, London: Hurst & Co., 2004
"What's so Byzantine about the Balkans?" in Balkan as Metaphor, edited by D. Bijelić and O. Savić, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Press, 2002
"Nesting Orientalisms: The Case of Former Yugoslavia," Slavic Review 54 (1995)
The World on the Turtle's Back: Myths, Legends and Stories of the Iroquois, 1991 [translator]
The Painter of Signs by R.K. Narayan, 1986 [translator]
Honors and Awards
Elected, President of the North American Association of Serbian Studies, 2008
Elected, Vice President of the North American Association of Serbian Studies, 2006
United States Institute of Peace Fellowship for the project "On Common Ground: Christianity and Islam in the Balkans," 2005-2006
National Council for Eurasian and East European Research, Policy Research Fellowship, 2001-2002
Current Projects
Contributor and workshop participant in the UNIFEM (United Nations Development Fund for Women) Program on "Women Building Peace and Human Security in Western Balkans,” the goal of which is to increase community awareness and dialogue on religion, with special reference to women’s human rights and the participation of women in public life.
"Religion in the Balkans: Traditions in Dialogue" (book ms, editor)
"Empires are Us: Identifying with Differences," in Images of Imperial Legacy in Southeast Europe, edited by Tea Sindbeak, Per Jacobsen and Maximilian Hartmuth, Arhaus, Denmark: University of Arhaus Press
University Affiliations
Core faculty member of the Indo-Pacific Studies Program, Asian Studies Center and Center for Russian and East European Studies of the University Center for International Studies