Dušan I. Bjelić

Dušan I. Bjelić received both his B.A. (1976) and M.A. (1981) in Sociology from the University of Belgrade.  He earned his Ph.D in Sociology from Boston University in 1989, joining the University of Southern Maine faculty in 1990. He has taught sociology at the University of Belgrade, Boston University, Tufts, Bentley, and Emerson College. He teaches courses in social theory, film, and ethnomethodology, and his  areas of research and publication are ethnomethodology, history of science, and media and culture. Professor Bjelić 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. Forthcoming in November, 2011, with Ashgate: Normalizing the Balkans: Geopolitics of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis.