Part-Time Instructor of Sociology
Email: abegicevic@luc.edu
Office: Coffey 416
PhD (ABD) in Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia. Expected 2018
Thesis: Nexus between Money, Justice, and Recognition: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Thesis Advisors: Jennifer Balint (Law and Society) and Gerry Simpson (International Law)
M.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies: Committee on International Relations-Social Sciences Division, Human Rights concentration. University of Chicago. Fall, 1999
Thesis: Institutional Aspects of Criminal Responsibility in Bosnia and Herzegovina: Unsilencing the silence.
Thesis Advisors: Michael Gayer (history) and Jack Goldsmith (law)
B.A. in Sociology, Loyola University with honors. Spring, 1998
Thesis: Integral Nationalism and Genocide
Thesis Advisor: Lauren Langman
Law and Society Association (competitive) Graduate Student Workshop Grant, 2016
University of Melbourne John Berry Traveling Scholarship, 2016
University of Chicago, Women in Public Leadership, Executive Program, 2015
University of Melbourne Abroad Travelling Scholarship for doctoral studies, 2013
University of Melbourne Graduate Research in Arts Travel Grant, 2013
University of Melbourne, Melbourne International Research Grant, 2012-2016
University of Melbourne, Melbourne International Fee Remissions, 2012-2016
The University of Chicago, Human Rights Grant, 2000
Journal Articles
Alma Begicevic, “Money as Justice: The Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina,” International Institute for Sociology and Law (Oñati, Spain), August 29, 2016.
Manuscripts in Preparation
Alma Begicevic, “Shifting frames of the ‘Transitional Justice blueprint’ in Neoliberal times: A Bottom-up view on Reparation" in preparation for submission to International Journal of Transitional Justice.
Alma Begicevic and Jennifer Balint, “Constricted Rights and Imagined Identities” in preparation for submission to Social and Legal Studies an International Journal.
Additional Publications
Alma Begicevic, International Sociology, Volume 33, Issue 5, Page 590-592, September 2018. Pp: 590 - 592 Book Review: Jörg Wiegratz, Neoliberal Moral Economy: Capitalism, Socio-Cultural Change and Fraud in Uganda.
Twenty-First Century Inequality & Capitalism: Piketty, Marx and Beyond / edited by Lauren Langman and David Alden Smith with Alma Begicevic. (Studies in Critical Social Sciences) Boston: Brill, 2018.
Alma Begicevic, “Nazirući Budućnost; Od Onda do Sada”. U Odbranu Naše Budućnosti, Mobile Culture Project, Durieux: Zagreb & OSCE: Vienna, September 1999.
Alma Begicevic and Jennifer Balint. “This Time We Knew,” Journal of Contemporary Sociology, Vol. 27, No. 5, Sep., 1998.
2016. “Transitional Justice and Victims’ right to Remedies; the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina." Law and Society Annual Conference in New Orleans, 3, June.
2015. “Crime, Punishment and victims’ rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina; The failed case of transitional justice.” Law and Society Annual Conference in Seattle, May 29.
2014. “Nexus between Money, Justice and Recognition; the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina." Law and Society Annual Conference in Minneapolis, May 30.
2014. "Nexus between Money, Justice and Recognition; the case of Bosnia and Herzegovina." International Institute for Sociology of Law Annual Conference in Oňati, Spain, May 21.
2013. “Sociology and Law: International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia”, Midwest Sociological Association, Chicago. September 6.
2013. Rethinking Transitional Justice and Social Repair: the Case of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Center for Culture and Cultural Studies Conference: “Cultural Memory.” Skopje, FRY Macedonia, September 3.