University of Pittsburgh
three small photographs depicting various religious icons

Department of Religious Studies

Faculty

Milica Bakić-Hayden

Visiting Lecturer
PhD, University of Chicago, 1997

2612 Cathedral of Learning
412.624.5989
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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

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