Prof. Larisa Kurtović

Department of Sociological and Anthropological Studies, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ottawa

Professor Kurtović is a socio-cultural anthropologist. She completed her undergraduate studies in the Department of International Studies at DePaul University in Chicago, where she also served as an Adjunct Professor between 2012 and 2014. She earned her MA and Ph.D. in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2015, she has worked as an Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies at the University of Ottawa.

Her research focuses on activist, labor-based and environmental movements in postwar Bosnia-Herzegovina, and embraces collaborative, participatory and engaged approaches to ethnographic fieldwork. Currently, she is writing two books, including Future as Predicament: Political Life After Catastrophe based on her long-term research in postwar-Bosnia, and a collaborative graphic ethnography, Reclaiming Dita, with anthropologist Andrew Gilbert and graphic artist Boris Stapić. Professor Kurtović’s most recent research explores the politics of water infrastructure, hydropower and extraction in contemporary Balkans.