Danilo Mandić is Associate Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology, Faculty Associate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies, and Center Associate at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. His researches focus on war, refugees, social movements, nationalism, ethnic relations, organized crime and conflict societies. His first book Gangsters and Other Statesmen received the Mirra Komarovsky Best Book Award (2022) and the ASA Section on Peace, War, and Social Conflict's Best Book Award​​​​​​ (2022). His second book The Syrian Refugee Crisis is out in 2023, and he co-edited Beyond Ethnicity: Changing Youth Values in Southeast Europe (2017) with Tamara Pavasović Trošt). His next book is Bad Refugees: Geopolitics, Stigma and Forced Migration in Modern Times (Oxford University Press), expected in 2025.

Mandić is founding Director of the Refugee Fieldwork Program, which places students at humanitarian, policy, and research opportunities with refugees abroad. Undergraduates interested in summer internship opportunities are welcome to apply.

 Mandic Book Launch

Please see:

- Time Magazine on Serbia-Kosovo | Swiss Radio SRF on Gangsters and Other Statesmen  |  BBC World Service on Syrian refugees  | Times Literary Supplement on separatism | Vice News on gangsters and politics  | Here & There podcast (w/Dave Marash) on Gangsters and Other Statesmen | Departures podcast | BIRN on Gangsters and Other Statesmen  |  N1 on Serbia-Kosovo | Radio Televizija Srbija on U.S. elections  | RTV on Gangsters and Other Statesmen [in Serbian] | Metro on social movements 

- Follow 5k From the Frontline.

- "Three Tales from Kharkiv: Ethnographic Fragments from the War in Ukraine," ASA Footnotes (Volume 51, Issue 1). 

- "Ukraine's Millions of Displaced Will Define Its Future" in Journal of Democracy (2022).

- "Professor Spotlight" [VIDEO] @ HESA (2024)

- "Forced Migration: Refugees in Global Perspective" [VIDEO] @ Harvard International Relations Club, December 2022.

- "Fragments of Displacement and Resilience from the Ukraine War" @ Weatherhead Research Cluster on Migration, November 2022.

- "Syrian Refugee Crisis: Lessons from the Balkan Route" @ IASxSIR Speaker Series, October 2020.

- Panel on "Youth in Southeast Europe" @ Center for European Studies, May 2nd, 2018. 

- At a Crossroads: The Future of the European Union, Harvard GSAS. 

- What do the Refugees Mean for Europe? @ Heller School, Brandeis University.

- Refugees and Risk: Syrian Migrant Smuggling on the Balkan Route @ FXB Center, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.

- "The Doubly Stigmatized" in ASA Political Sociology Newsletter (Spring 2020). 

- "Principles of protection for migrants, refugees, and other displaced persons " during COVID crisis. 

 

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