Dijana Mujkanović, PhD (she, her)

I am an incoming Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow in the Weatherhead Scholars Program (2026–27) at Harvard University.

I received my doctorate from the School of Public and International Affairs (SPIA) at the University of Pittsburgh.  

My research has been funded by the U.S. Institute of Peace and the American Councils Title VIII Program.

As a mixed-methods scholar with regional expertise in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel, I bridge ethnographic and survey research through the analysis of personal networks to study how ordinary people form and sustain relationships across ethnic lines in deeply divided societies. 

My dissertation, Personal Cross-Ethnic Networks in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Israel: Structure, Meaning, and Relational Orientation, introduces a relational typology, showing how structural constraints and individual preference jointly shape orientation toward ethnic others. 

My upcoming research will focus on individuals in ethnically "mixed" marriages, partnerships, and their children, who play a critical role in sustaining cross-ethnic networks and fostering durable intergroup ties.

Additionally, I examine how social memory, especially mnemonic polarization and memory institutionalization, shape intergroup relations. 

This research agenda advances interdisciplinary debates on micro-level intergroup dynamics.

I draw on a decade of practitioner experience to integrate scholarly rigor with practical insight, producing research that speaks to both academic debates and policy.