Dusan I. Bjelic is Professor of Sociology; University of Belgrade, B.A.; 1976, M.A., 1981; Boston University, Ph.D. 1989. Joined the University of Southern Maine faculty in 1990. He taught sociology at the University of Belgrade, Boston University, Tufts, Bentley, and Emerson College. He teaches courses in social theory, film, and ethnomethodology. His areas of research and publication are ethnomethodology/science and media and culture. Professor Bjelic co-edited the book Balkan as Metaphor: Between Globalization and Fragmentation (Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2002). His book, Galileo's Pendulum: Science, Sexuality and the Body-Instrument Link is published by the SUNY Press.

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