Arna Elezovic

Arna Elezovic

Doctoral Candidate

Contact Information

elezovic@uw.edu

Office Hours:

By appointment

Fields of Interest

Ancient World Eastern Europe Gender History of Archaeology Late Ottoman Empire Material Culture Modern Europe

Biography

PhD, University of Washington, Seattle, 2021

MA, University of Washington, Seattle, 2014

BA, St. John's College, Santa Fe New Mexico, 1998

Curriculum Vitae (259.63 KB)

Arna Elezovic is a PhD Graduate in History at the University of Washington. She teaches her own comparative history course on the history of archaeology in the Mediterranean world during summer quarter at the UW. Her research focuses on how an ancient past was constructed for western Europe by an ethnographic travelogue and journalism of Sir Arthur Evans, who was later known for his archaeological work on Crete. She has been a pre-doctoral instructor for the UW Department of English Interdisciplinary Writing Program for three years. Prior to graduate school, she was a compliance analyst and technical writer in human subjects research.

Awards

UW Interdisciplinary Writing Program Instructor (2018 - 2021)

UW English Department Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Collaboration Grant (2019-2020)

Thomas-Johnson Endowed Fellowship (multiple quarters)

Simpson Center Graduate Research Cluster (2019-2020) for "Interdisciplinary Ethnographies"

Simpson Center Digital Humanities Summer Institute (2019, 2018) collaborative award

Foreign Language Area Studies Fellowship (Academic years 2014-2015 and 2015-2016; Summers 2016, 2015)

Research

Selected Research

Elezovic, Arna. Modern Antiquities: Arthur Evans, the Balkans, and the Discovery of a ‘Lost’ European Civilization. University of Washington: completion date anticipated June 2021.

Adviser: Joel Thomas Walker, Adviser: Raymond Jonas, Adviser: Robin Chapman Stacey

Courses Taught

Summer 2021 B-term

HSTCMP 290 A: Topics in Comparative/Global History

Summer 2019 Full-term

HSTCMP 290 A: Topics in Comparative/Global History

Autumn 2017

Summer 2017 Full-term

HSTCMP 290 A: Topics In Comparative/global History - Course Website

Autumn 2016

Summer 2018

Teaching Assistant for HSTAM 111 Ancient World (Online Course), full term.

Autumn 2019, Autumn 2018 - Winter 2019, Autumn 2020 - Spring 2021

Pre-doctoral instructor for English 198 and English 297- Interdisciplinary Writing Program

Linked with history lecture courses such as HSTAM 111 Ancient World, HSTAM 112 Medieval World, and CLAS 430 Greek and Roman Mythology.
Catalog Description: Expository writing based on material presented in a specified social science lecture course. Assignments include drafts of papers to be submitted in the specified course, and other pieces of analytic prose. Concurrent registration in specified course required.