The Team
PROJECT MEMBERS
Jelena Ilić Mandić (1981) is Research Associate at the Institute of History in Belgrade She graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade (Department of History) in 2005 and then obtained her MA degree in 2008. Over the course of her PhD studies – which she completed in 2014 – she specialized in the history of the Military Frontier, focusing on the Habsburg Province of Banat during the second half of the 18th century. Since 2007 she has worked at the Institute of History in Belgrade. Beside the history of the Military Frontier, her field of expertise includes the social and economic history of Serbs and other ethnic communities in 18th- century Habsburg monarchy. She has conducted research in various archives and attended a number of academic conferences, both in Serbia and abroad. . Her works have been published in scholarly journals, edited volumes, and lexicographic publications. In 2020 she received the Ilarion Ruvarac Prize awarded by Matica Srpska for her book Banatska vojna Krajina (1764–1800) [Banat Military Frontier (1764–1800)].
Bibliography (a selection):
- Banatska vojna Krajina (1764–1800) [Banat Military Frontier (1764–1800)], Belgrade 2020.
- Forging the Wallachian Military Frontier 1769–1772, Banatica 31/II (2021) 251–272.
- The Local Elite in Central Government Service: Banat Military Frontier Officers in the 18th Century, The Habsburg State-wide and the Regions in the Southern Danube Basin (16th–20th centuries), edd. H. Heppner, G. Vasin, N. Ninković, Wien 2020, 99–121.
- O počecima transporta i trgovine žitom na Savi i Kupi: trasa Zemun – Sisak – Karlovac u drugoj polovini 18. veka [About Beginings of Grain Transit and Trade on the Sava and Kupa Rivers: The route Zemun – Sisak – Karlovac in the second half of the 18th century], Historical Review 67 (2018) 141–176.
- Slavonsko-sremska vojna granica polovinom XVIII veka [Slavonian-Syrmian Military Border in the mid XVIII century], Recueil des travaux sur les Serbes en Croatie 9 (2015) 57–98.
