Ljiljana Radonić heads a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC) on “Globalized Memorial Museums. Exhibiting Atrocities in the Era of Claims for Moral Universals” at the Institute of Culture Studies and Theatre History of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna. She wrote her habilitation on the “World War II in Post-Communist Memorial Museums” (Berlin: De Gruyter 2021) at the Department of Political Science at the University of Vienna where she also has been teaching since 2004. She was visiting professor at Gießen University in 2015 and at the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Graz in Austria in 2017. Her PhD dealt with the “War on Memory. Croatian Memory Politics between Revisionism and European Standards” (Frankfurt: Campus 2010).
Recent publications: Der Zweite Weltkrieg in postsozialistischen Gedenkmuseen. Geschichtspolitik zwischen der ‚Anrufung Europas‘ und dem Fokus auf ‚unser‘ Leid, Berlin: De Gruyter 2021; Ljiljana Radonić (ed.). The Holocaust/Genocide Template in Eastern Europe. London/New York: Routledge 2020; Ljiljana Radonić/Heidemarie Uhl (ed.). Das umkämpfte Museum. Zeitgeschichte ausstellen zwischen Dekonstruktion und Sinnstiftung. Bielefeld: transcript 2020; „‚Our‘ vs. ‚Inherited‘ Museums. PiS and Fidesz as Mnemonic Warriors“. Südosteuropa 68.1 (2020).