Teodora Jovanović currently works as a postdoctoral researcher on the project “Enacting (digital) citizenship from below: A study on care and the uses of digital infrastructure by refugees in Bosnia and Herzegovina”, led by Dr. Monika Palmberger. She completed her undergraduate, master's and doctoral studies at the Department of Ethnology and Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade. She was engaged at „Miksalište“ (2016-2017), a former refugee aid centre in Belgrade. 

Since 2018, she has been working at the Institute of Ethnography of SASA in Belgrade. Her doctoral dissertation (2023) explored the narratives of asylum seekers from Iran in Serbia within the Balkan route context. She was an associate on „The Refugees in Towns project“ (RIT) /Feinstein International Center at Tufts University, Boston (2017-2018); „The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery of the EU: from Ethnography to Keywords“ (ERIM) /the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research, Zagreb (2020-2024); and participated in COST action “Connecting Theory and Practical Issues of Migration and Religious Diversity” (COREnet) (2021-2025).

She received the Danubius Young Scientist Award (2020), granted by The Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Science and Research (BMBFW) and the Institute for the Danube Region and Central Europe (IDM).

• [2026] “Coercion”, In: Keywords of the Balkan route. The European Irregularized Migration Regime at the Periphery, eds. Marijana Hameršak, Iva Pleše & Tea Škokić, 33–41. Berghahn Books.
• [2025] with Bojan Mucko, “Ladders, Ketchup, and Mayonnaise: The Materiality of Irregularized Movements Along the Balkan route”, Narodna umjetnost: hrvatski časopis za etnologiju i folkloristiku 62 (2): 119–138.
• [2025] with Bayram Koca and Anita Stasulane, “Mapping Religion in Refugees’ Narratives: The Case of Türkiye, Serbia, and Austria”, In: Religious and Non-Religious Narratives on Migration, eds. Regina Polak, Aybiçe Tosun & Ansgar Jödicke, 91–112. Brill.
• [2022] with Katarina Mitrović and Ildiko Erdei, “Moving While Waiting for the Future: Mobility and Education in Šid, Serbia”, Journal of Borderland Studies 38 (2): 229–246.
• [2021] “Forced (Im) Mobilities En Route: ‘Justified’ Violence of the Border Regime in Balkans Bulletin of the Institute of Ethnography SASA 69 (2): 433–455.
• [2020] “Transformations of Humanitarian Aid and Response Modes to Migration Movements. A Case Study of the Miksalište Center in Belgrade”, movements. Journal for Critical Migration and Border Regime Studies 5 (1): 125–147.