Professor Hariz Halilovich
Professor
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College: School of GUSS
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Department: School of GUSS
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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hariz.halilovich@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0001-8930-3152
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
- Mentoring (short-term)
- Collaborative projects
- Media enquiries
- Join a web conference as a panellist or speaker
- Industry Projects
- Career advice
- Teaching provision
About
Hariz Halilovich—an award-winning social anthropologist and author—is Professor of Global Studies and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies (GUSS), RMIT University, Melbourne. His research has focused on place-based identities, politically motivated violence (including genocide), forced migration, memory studies, and human rights. This research informs his approaches to learning and teaching, which see students engage in experiential learning, field-based studies, and action research in order to better understand self, community and the world we live in.
Much of Hariz’s work has an applied focus, and he has conducted research on migration and human rights-related issues for a range of international, non-governmental and governmental bodies, including the Department of Home Affairs (Australia), Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Australia), Minister for Human Rights and Refugees (Bosnia & Herzegovina), the European Commission, and the United Nations organisations: UNDP, and International Organisation for Migration.
Hariz’s publications include the books Places of Pain (2013); Writing After Srebrenica (2017); and Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for Our Critical Condition (co-authored with Julian C.H. Lee et al) (2019). In addition to academic writing, he has also produced multimedia exhibitions, works of fiction and radio and TV programs.
Much of Hariz’s work has an applied focus, and he has conducted research on migration and human rights-related issues for a range of international, non-governmental and governmental bodies, including the Department of Home Affairs (Australia), Administrative Appeals Tribunal (Australia), Minister for Human Rights and Refugees (Bosnia & Herzegovina), the European Commission, and the United Nations organisations: UNDP, and International Organisation for Migration.
Hariz’s publications include the books Places of Pain (2013); Writing After Srebrenica (2017); and Monsters of Modernity: Global Icons for Our Critical Condition (co-authored with Julian C.H. Lee et al) (2019). In addition to academic writing, he has also produced multimedia exhibitions, works of fiction and radio and TV programs.
Media
Research fields
- 440107 Social and cultural anthropology
- 440402 Humanitarian disasters, conflict and peacebuilding
- 441013 Sociology of migration, ethnicity and multiculturalism
- 470212 Multicultural, intercultural and cross-cultural studies
- 440303 Migration
- 470210 Globalisation and culture
UN sustainable development goals
- 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
- 17 Partnerships for the Goals
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Academic positions
- ARC Future Fellow
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 4 Mar 2019 – Present
- Visiting Professor
- University of Sarajevo
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 1 Mar 2019 – Present
- Professor
- RMIT University
- Global, Urban and Social Studies
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2019 – Present
- Vice-Chancellor's Senior Research Fellow
- RMIT University
- Social Equity Research Centre
- Melbourne, Australia
- 15 Aug 2015 – 4 Mar 2019
- Visiting Faculty
- University of California, Los Angeles
- Los Angeles, United States
- 15 Jan 2014 – 15 Mar 2020
- Associate Professor
- Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Jan 2013 – 14 Aug 2015
- ARC DECRA Research Fellow
- Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Mar 2012 – 1 Mar 2015
- Senior Lecturer
- Monash University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 11 Jan 2011 – 1 Jan 2013
- Post-doctoral Research Fellow
- University of Melbourne
- Melbourne, Australia
- 15 Dec 2009 – 10 Jan 2011
- Teaching Associate
- University of Melbourne
- Anthropology
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Mar 2006 – 1 Nov 2009
- Research Assistant
- RMIT University
- Globalism Institute
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Sep 2003 – 31 Dec 2005
- Teaching Associate
- RMIT University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Feb 2003 – 31 Dec 2005
- Research Assistant
- Victoria University
- Melbourne, Australia
- 5 Jan 2002 – 5 Mar 2003
- Research Assistant
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Hamburg, Germany
- 15 May 1997 – 30 Oct 1998
Non-academic positions
- Columnist
- Magazin Dani
- Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 10 Oct 2007 – 31 Dec 2013
- Counselor-Advocate
- Victorian Foundation for Survivors of Torture
- Melbourne, Australia
- 1 Oct 2001 – 1 Oct 2004
- Mental Health Worker
- University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf
- Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Clinic
- Hamburg, Germany
- 4 May 1994 – 30 Oct 1998
Supervisor projects
- Resilience, Community and Displacement: A Study of Roma Refugees from Ukraine in Poland.
- 28 Jun 2022
- Feelings in Revolt: A Psychic Topography of Productive Mourning
- 4 Feb 2021
- Forced Migrants in the Western Balkans: Between Transit and Settlement
- 24 Jul 2020
- Long-Distance Mourning for the Missing: Gaps, Absences and Silences in Two Diaspora Contexts Long-distance Mourning for the Missing: Gaps, Absences and Silences in Two Diaspora Contexts
- 16 Jun 2020
- Diasporic Belonging, Masculine Identity and Sports: How rugby league affects the perceptions and practices of Pasifika peoples in Australia
- 1 May 2019
- Missing People, Missing Stories in the Aftermath of Genocide and “Ethnic Cleansing” in Srebrenica and Prijedor
- 25 Jul 2018
- Untangling the Bosnian Security Conundrum: The Bosnian Defence Industry Drifting between Deterrence and Politics
- 1 Feb 2018
- Peacebuilding Education Initiatives in a Divided Society: Dealing with the Legacies of a Violent Past in Bosnia and Herzegovina
- 27 Feb 2017
- Africa through Blair's Commission and the Eritrean Story: Development beyond Neoliberal Deadlock and the Embattled Postcolonial-State
- 16 Sep 2016
Teaching interests
Professor Halilovich teaches the courses: "Global Migrations: Mobility, Displacement & Refugees", and "Global Studies Research" (within Masters of Global Studies program); and "Globalising Societies", and "Culture, Conflict & Globalisation" (within BA International Studies).
Research interests
Situated within an interdisciplinary and global context, Hariz carries out research into people’s relationship to place, place-making processes, and tensions around ethnic and place-based identities in relation to conflict, displacement, and migration (forced, voluntary, transnational and trans-local) from rural and semi-rural to urban locations. In particular, he has studied the role of social intimacy, local identities and community resilience in post-conflict contexts, and recreation of a sense of belonging among refugee diaspora groups in Australia, Europe and the USA.
Intersecting this area of research is his research and writing on social memory: popular memory, contested and marginalised remembering and forgetting, traumatic memory, and performative enactments of commemorations and remembrances in both real and cyber space. Hariz has pioneered novel ways to research how adults and young people use narratives and digital technologies to build life stories about displacement, genocide, and personal identity. Much of his work has an applied focus and has been translated into relevant policies on migration nationally and internationally.
Competitive research grants:
*2022: European Commission 2020 – COST: "Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe" (Odisee University of Applied Sciences, lead); (2023-2027);
*2020: Victorian Government, Multicultural Affairs: "In the Game: Overcoming barriers and parental attitudes towards physical activity" (2020-2021);
*2019: Gandel Philanthropy: "Youth multiculturalism from below" (2019-2020);
*2018: Australian Research Council Future Fellowship: "How the missing matter" (2019-2024);
*2017: Australian Research Council Discovery Project: "Missing people, missing stories in the aftermath of genocide" (2018-2023);
*2015: European Commission HORIZON 2020: "Inform - Closing the gap between formal and informal institutions in the Western Balkans" (University College London lead); (2016-2018);
*2013: Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA): "Recognising the pain of others" (2013–2016);
*2010: the Erste Foundation (Austria): "Migration and its effects on demographic and economic development in Central and South–Eastern Europe"(2010–2011);
*2007: The EU Jean Monnet Reflection Activities Grant: "European diasporas in Australia" (2007-09);
*2005: Grant from UNDP: "Pathways to Reconciliation and Global Human Rights in the Balkans".
Awards and honours:
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2019. (*awarded to the top 100 scientists in Australia).
- RMIT University Dean’s Research Excellence Award 2018.
- RMIT University Dean’s Research Excellence Award 2017.
- RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow Award, 2015.
- Monash University Research Excellence Award 2014.
- Honourable Mention in The Prose Awards 2013 (The American Publishers Awards for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Excellence) for the book "Places of Pain".
- Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council, 2013.
- Article of the Year, Transitions Magazine, 2011.
- Generations in Dialogue Fellowship for Social Researchers, Erste Foundation, 2010.
- Human Rights Award, University of Melbourne, 2006.
- Australian Postgraduate Award, 2006.
- RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award for Regional Partnerships (Int.), 2005.
- RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award for Best Research Team, 2003.
- Australian National Writing Award 2001 – First Prize in the short story category.
- AMES Award ’99 for outstanding service to Victoria’s multicultural community, 1999.
Intersecting this area of research is his research and writing on social memory: popular memory, contested and marginalised remembering and forgetting, traumatic memory, and performative enactments of commemorations and remembrances in both real and cyber space. Hariz has pioneered novel ways to research how adults and young people use narratives and digital technologies to build life stories about displacement, genocide, and personal identity. Much of his work has an applied focus and has been translated into relevant policies on migration nationally and internationally.
Competitive research grants:
*2022: European Commission 2020 – COST: "Transnational Family Dynamics in Europe" (Odisee University of Applied Sciences, lead); (2023-2027);
*2020: Victorian Government, Multicultural Affairs: "In the Game: Overcoming barriers and parental attitudes towards physical activity" (2020-2021);
*2019: Gandel Philanthropy: "Youth multiculturalism from below" (2019-2020);
*2018: Australian Research Council Future Fellowship: "How the missing matter" (2019-2024);
*2017: Australian Research Council Discovery Project: "Missing people, missing stories in the aftermath of genocide" (2018-2023);
*2015: European Commission HORIZON 2020: "Inform - Closing the gap between formal and informal institutions in the Western Balkans" (University College London lead); (2016-2018);
*2013: Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA): "Recognising the pain of others" (2013–2016);
*2010: the Erste Foundation (Austria): "Migration and its effects on demographic and economic development in Central and South–Eastern Europe"(2010–2011);
*2007: The EU Jean Monnet Reflection Activities Grant: "European diasporas in Australia" (2007-09);
*2005: Grant from UNDP: "Pathways to Reconciliation and Global Human Rights in the Balkans".
Awards and honours:
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship 2019. (*awarded to the top 100 scientists in Australia).
- RMIT University Dean’s Research Excellence Award 2018.
- RMIT University Dean’s Research Excellence Award 2017.
- RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow Award, 2015.
- Monash University Research Excellence Award 2014.
- Honourable Mention in The Prose Awards 2013 (The American Publishers Awards for Excellence in Professional and Scholarly Excellence) for the book "Places of Pain".
- Discovery Early Career Research Award, Australian Research Council, 2013.
- Article of the Year, Transitions Magazine, 2011.
- Generations in Dialogue Fellowship for Social Researchers, Erste Foundation, 2010.
- Human Rights Award, University of Melbourne, 2006.
- Australian Postgraduate Award, 2006.
- RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award for Regional Partnerships (Int.), 2005.
- RMIT Research and Development Innovation Award for Best Research Team, 2003.
- Australian National Writing Award 2001 – First Prize in the short story category.
- AMES Award ’99 for outstanding service to Victoria’s multicultural community, 1999.
