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CFP: Yugoslav Women Historians: Gender, Knowledge, and Profession in the Twentieth Century
Type: Edited Volume
Language: English
Publisher: Institute for Recent History of Serbia
Editors: Dr. Nataša Milićević, Senior Research Associate, Institute for Recent History of Serbia
Prof. Dr. Michael Antolović, Faculty of Education in Sombor, University of Novi Sad
Contact: jugoslovenske.istoricarke@yahoo.com
Timeline:
- October 15, 2026: Abstract submission deadline
- June 30, 2027: Full chapter submission deadline
- December 2027: Anticipated publication of the volume
We invite scholars to contribute chapters to the edited volume Yugoslav Women Historians: Gender, Knowledge, and Profession in the Twentieth Century dedicated to the still underexplored history of women in the historical profession across the Yugoslav region.
Although women's and gender history have become well-established fields within contemporary historiography, the history of women historians and their contributions to the development of historical scholarship in Serbia and the successor states of former Yugoslavia remains largely unexplored. From the first women who earned doctoral degrees in history during the first half of the twentieth century to the many historians who helped shape academic and scholarly life after the Second World War, this topic opens important questions about the relationship between gender, knowledge production, and the academic profession.
The volume aims to reconstruct the professional and intellectual biographies of Yugoslav women historians and to critically examine their role in the development of historiography throughout the twentieth century. While the volume welcomes biographical studies, its broader aim is to examine how gender shaped scholarly careers, professional opportunities, intellectual authority, and the production of historical knowledge within Yugoslav historiography.
We particularly encourage submissions that employ biographical, prosopographical, comparative, and interdisciplinary approaches and that contribute to a broader understanding of historiography from a gender perspective.
We welcome contributions addressing, but not limited to, the following themes:
• intellectual biographies and professional trajectories of women historians;
• social and educational conditions that enabled women’s entry into the historical profession, as well as their specific social and cultural capital;
• institutional barriers and professionalization;
• gender relations within academia and scholarly institutions;
• research interests, methodologies, and scholarly contributions of women historians;
• women historians and feminist epistemology;
• distinctive characteristics of the scholarly persona of prominent women historians;
• the “feminization” and “demasculinization” of the historical profession;
• women who, although not formally trained as historians, made significant contributions to historical research and historical culture;
• women historians and knowledge-producing institutions;
• comparative perspectives within Yugoslav, European, and global contexts;
• women historians in transnational scholarly networks;
• historiography, memory, and public engagement.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and to collaborating on this collective effort to advance the study of gender, knowledge production, and historiography in the Yugoslav region.
The following edited volumes may serve as useful models for prospective contributors:
Burguière, André and Bernard Vincent (dirs.), Un siècle d’historiennes (Paris: Éditions des Femmes–Antoinette Fouque, 2014).
Sales, Véronique (dir.), Les historiens (Paris: Armand Colin, 2003).
Sal, Veronik (prir.), Istoričari (Belgrade: Clio, 2008) [Serbian edition].
Daileader, Philip and Philip Whalen (eds.), French Historians 1900–2000: New Historical Writing in Twentieth-Century France (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010).
Sabrow, Martin, Jürgen Danyel, and Jan-Holger Kirsch (eds.), 50 Klassiker der Zeitgeschichte (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2007).
Important Dates:
Abstract submission deadline: October 15, 2026
Notification of acceptance: October 31, 2026
Full chapter submission deadline: June 30, 2027
Submission Procedure:
Abstracts (300–500 words), accompanied by a title, should be submitted by October 15, 2026. Full chapters should be submitted by June 30, 2027. Chapters should not exceed 50,000 characters (including spaces). Contributors should follow the citation style prescribed by Tokovi istorije / Currents of History. Information for authors | Currents of History Detailed author guidelines are available on the journal’s website. Applicants will be notified of the outcome of their submission no later than October 31, 2026.
Contact: Submissions and inquiries should be sent to: jugoslovenske.istoricarke@yahoo.com
More details about the call can be found at the following link