SSST - Dr. Marko Attila Hoare

Dr. Marko Attila Hoare

Associate Professor of History

marko.hoare@ssst.edu.ba

Marko Attila Hoare is an Associate Professor and Head of Research for the Department of Political Science and International Relations. He was born in London and received his BA from the University of Cambridge in 1994 and his PhD from Yale University in 2000. His research focuses on themes related to nationalism, genocide, fascism and anti-fascism, and state-building. He is the author of four books: The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War: A History (Hurst and Oxford University Press, London and New York, 2013); The History of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the Present Day (Saqi, London, 2007); Genocide and Resistance in Hitler’s Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006), which won the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow Monograph Competition in 2004; and How Bosnia Armed (Saqi, London, 2004). He is currently leading the Bosnian Genocide research project at the SSST and is also working on a history of modern Serbia.

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EMPLOYMENT

2017-
- Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and International Relations, Sarajevo School of Science and Technology
2013-2017
- Associate Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University
2009-2013
- Reader at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University
2006-2009
- Senior Research Fellow, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Kingston University
2001-2006
- Research Fellow of the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
2001-2004
- British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow
2001
- Research Officer for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, United Nations, The Hague (February-September)
  
  Research assistant for the Bosnian Institute, London (January-February)
1999-2000
- PhD Dissertation writing in Belgrade, Serbia
1997-1999
- Archival research in Bosnia-Hercegovina, Croatia and Serbia
1996-1997
- Teaching assistant at the Department of History, Yale University

EDUCATION

2010-2011: Kingston University, Postgraduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
1994-2000: Yale University, History: PhD, 2000; MPhil, 1997; MA, 1997
- Dissertation: ‘The Partisan-Chetnik conflict and the origins of Bosnian statehood’.
1991-1994:University of Cambridge, History: MA, 1998; BA (Hons), 1994
- Marko Hoare Dissertation: ‘The movement toward a sovereign Croatia in the post-war period’

TEACHING AND ACADEMIC MANAGEMENT

(‘*’ = module leader)
2017- * ‘Democracy: Debates in Theory and Practice’ (3rd year; seminar group of 15)
* ‘Introduction to Political Thought’ (2nd year; seminar group of 7)
2016-2017: Department of Politics Web Liaison Officer
2013-2017: ‘Conflict Theory and Resolution’ (Level 7; lecture and seminar group of up to 40)
‘Contemporary Issues and Case Studies in Security and Conflict’ (Level 7; lecture and seminar group of up to 40)
* ’Genocide and Crimes against Humanity’ (Level 6; 15o lecture group, four seminar groups of c.20)
‘Another World is Possible: Order and Revolution in Political Ideology’, (Level 4; two seminar groups of c. 20)
2014-2015: Course Leader for the International Relations Master’s degree programme.
2013-2014: Overall Level 7 Coordinator
Member of the MA Human Rights Module Assessment Board
‘From Slavery to the Holocaust’ (Level 5; one lecture group of c. 40; two seminar groups of c. 20)
* ‘Advanced Area Studies’ (Level 6; lecture and seminar group of c. 20)
2012-2013: ‘Managing and Resolving International Conflict’ (Level 7; lecture and seminar group of c. 40)
2012-2013: ‘Conflict Theory and Analysis’(Level 7; lecture and seminar group of c. 40)
2010-2013: * ‘The Contemporary Balkans’ (Level 5; lecture and seminar group of c. 50)
2009-2013: * ‘Prevention of Genocide’ (Level 7; lecture and seminar group of c. 30)
‘Case Studies in International Conflict’ (Level 7; lecture/seminar group of c.20)
2007-2013: ‘Politics of Mass Murder’ (Level 6; lecture group of c. 150 students, four seminar groups of c. 20-25)
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2009-2010: ‘Heroes and Villains’ (Level 4; four seminar groups of c. 30 students)
‘The Holocaust as History and Controversy’ (Level 5; lecture group of c. 120 and two seminar groups of c. 20)
2003-2006: Teaching Fellow for BA in History
I taught the course ‘European Fascism, 1919 to the Present’ (lecture group of c. 30) and devised two topics: 1) The Holocaust and Genocide; 2) Fascism in East Central Europe
2002-2003: Teaching Fellow for MPhil in European Studies
I devised and taught the course: ‘The History of Modern European Societies since 1800: Identities and Elites in a Diverse Continent’ (lecture and seminar group of c.15)
2001-2006: ‘European History since 1890’ (BA in History - individual tuition)
1996-1997: Teaching assistant for undergraduate courses:
1) History of the International Communist Movement
2) Strategy and Diplomacy of the Great Powers, 1860 to the Cold War

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS AND AWARDS

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, 2012
Congress of North American Bosniaks Award, 2010
K Blundell Trust Award, 2005
British Academy Small Research Grant, 2005
British Academy PDF Monograph Competition Winner, 2004
British Academy Small Research Grant, 2003
British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, 2001
Yale History Department Dissertation Fellowship, 1999
Yale Council for International and Area Studies Dissertation Research Grant, 1997
Smith-Richardson Institute Dissertation Research Grant, 1997
John F. Enders Research Grant, 1997
Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Research Grant, 1997
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Yale Centre for International and Area Studies pre-dissertation research grant, 1997
Trevelyan Prize, History, University of Cambridge, 1993

LANGUAGES

Fluency in English and Serbo-Croat; reading knowledge of French and German

FURTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Visiting Professor at the College of Higher Education, Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Member of editorial board of Prilozi, the journal of the Institute for History of Bosnia- Hercegovina
Member of editorial board of Genocide Studies International, the journal of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies
Member of editorial board of Historijska misao – journal of the Department of History, Faculty of Philosophy in Tuzla and Tuzla Canton Historians’ Society
Member of editorial board of Kultura polisa – Časopis za negovanje demokratske političke kulture (‘Culture Shelf – A journal for the nurturing of democratic political culture’), published by the Association for Political Science of Serbia
Member of editorial board of Democracy and Security in Southeastern Europe, published by Atlantic Initiative (‘a non-governmental, non-partisan and non-profit organization for the promotion of Euro-Atlantic values in Bosnia-Herzegovina’)
Member of editorial board of Spirit of Bosnia (‘An international, interdisciplinary, bilingual, online journal’), published by the Department of Sociology, Wittenberg University
Participant in BBC 2’s annual Holocaust Memorial Day programme, as expert on the Bosnian genocide, 27 January 2015
Guest lecturer at the University of Maynooth, Republic of Ireland, April 2013
Guest lecturer at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, February 2012
Guest lecturer at the American University of Kosovo, Priština, October-November 2010
Member of the International Expert Team Council of the Institute for the Research of Genocide Canada
Contributor since 2006 to Routledge Europa annual encyclopaedia Central and South
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Eastern Europe , for entries on ‘Serbia’ and ‘Bosnia and Herzegovina’
Trustee of the Bosnian Institute, London
European Neighbourhood Section Director for the Henry Jackson Society, London, 20052012
Director of the Vane Ivanovic Library, Kingston University
Expert witness for Kingsley Napley law firm, in its successful defence of former Bosnian vice-president Ejup Ganic from Serbia’s attempt to extradite him from the UK, 2010
Participant in the project ‘Scholars’ Initiative: Confronting the Yugoslav Controversies’, involving over three-hundred international scholars, 2002-2010
Organiser of the conference ‘The Second World War in the Balkans’, hosted by the Yale Centre for International and Area Studies, Yale University, November 2001, with c. 50 participants
Journalist for New Left Review in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, October 2000 (fall of Milošević)
Guest of the Institute of Contemporary History, Belgrade, April 1999 - January 2001
Translator in the summer of 1995 for the ‘Workers Aid Convoy to Bosnia’ (an international trade-union funded aid convoy that delivered humanitarian supplies to Tuzla, BosniaHercegovina, during the war of 1992-95)

ACADEMIC PUBLICATIONS

Books
- A History of Modern Serbia (forthcoming - Oxford University Press and C. Hurst and Co., London)
- The Bosnian Muslims in the Second World War (Oxford University Press, New York and C. Hurst and Co., London, 2013)
- The history of Bosnia: From the Middle Ages to the present day (London: Saqi Books, 2007)
- Genocide and Resistance in Hitler’s Bosnia: The Partisans and the Chetniks, 1941-1943 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006)
- How Bosnia Armed (London: Saqi Books, 2004)

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