The Team
PROJECT MEMBERS
Branko Bešlin (1960) is Full Professor of early modern European history at the University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Philosophy, from which he graduated (1985) and obtained his MA (1996) and PhD degrees (2003). He has been employed at the History Department of the same Faculty since 1988; moreover, he lectured at the Faculty of Economics, Faculty of Science and the Center for European Studies of the University of Novi Sad. His research interests cover various problems of Serbian and European history in the period from the 18th to the 20th centuries on which he has published a number of scholarly articles. He has published three monographs (with additional two in co-authorship) and over sixty articles, studies and reviews. He has participated in several academic projects in Serbia, which were conducted under the auspices of SASA, Matica Srpska and the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad, as well as in the CLIOHRESNET project of the European Union. Since 2012 he has been editor-in-chief of Srpski biografski rečnik (Serbian Biographical Dictionary), a capital lexicographic project of Matica Srpska (previously he was editor for the period 1918–1941).
Bibliography (a selection):
- Vesnik tragedije: Nemačka štampa u Vojvodini 1933–1941. godine [Herald of Tragedy: German Press in Vojvodina 1933-1941] Novi Sad 2001.
- Evropski uticaji na srpski liberalizam u XIX veku [European influences on Serbian liberalism in the 19th century], Novi Sad 2005.
- Umetnička topografija Novog Sada [Art Topography of Novi Sad], Novi Sad 2013 (with D. Stančić et al.)
- Evgenije Savojski i njegovo doba [Eugene of Savoy and his Times], Novi Sad 2014 (2016).
- The Baroque Fоrm of “Sweet Orthodoxy”: The Church and Transformation of Serbian Society After the Great Migration of 1690, Kirchen als Integrationsfaktor für die Migranten im Südosten der Habsburgermonarchie im 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin etc. 2010, 50–70.
- What is a Region? Regions in European History, Regional and Transational History in Europe: A CLIOHWORLD Reader, Pisa 2011, 11–67. (sa S. Jacobson et al.)
- “Herojsko doba” – Kolonizacija u 18. veku kao motiv u književnom i likovnom stvaralaštvu Podunavskih Švaba [“Age of Heroes” – Colonization in the 18th Century as a Motif in the Literarure and Art of the Danube Swabians], Književna istorija 146 (2012) 667–688.
- The “Serbian Athens” on the Periphery of Hungary – Novi Sad in the 18th and 19th Centuries, The Habsburg State-wide and the Regions in the Southern Danube basin (16th–20th centuries), edd. H. Heppner, G. Vasin, N. Ninković, Wien 2020, 123–139
