Jasmina Tumbas (PhD, Art History, Duke University) is an Associate Professor of Contemporary Art History & Performance Studies in the Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies at the University at Buffalo. She is the author of “I Am Jugoslovenka!” Feminist Performance Politics during & after Yugoslav Socialism (Manchester University Press, 2022), which won the 2023 Barbara Jelavich Book Prize. Her current book project, Queer and Feminist Yugoslav Diaspora: Art of Resistance Beyond Nationhood, is the recipient of the Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant. Tumbas serves as a volume editor for the multivolume project Cultural History of the Avant-Garde in Eastern, and South-Eastern Europe (Brill) and is also co-editing the anthology, Contemporary Art in the Post-Yugoslav Space: Case Studies in Hauntology (Routledge). Her research has appeared in ArtMargins, Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies, Art Monthly, Art in America, ASAP Journal, and Zeitschrift für Kunstgeschichte.
Jasmina Tumbas
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Associate Professor, Department of Global Gender and Sexuality Studies, University of Buffalo
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