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Dr. Alma Vardari | The Leonard Davis Institute

Dr. Alma Vardari

Dr.
Alma
Vardari
Research topic: “EU State-building and Local Contention: Bosnia and Kosovo from a Comparative Perspective”
Alma Vardari is a postdoctoral fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations. Her research concerns EU statebuilding in the Western Balkans. Dr. Vardari received her PhD in Sociology from Tel Aviv University and has an MA in Behavioral Sciences from Ben-Gurion University majoring in Political Sociology. She is now also an adjunct lecturer at the Department. of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. Dr. Vardari’s most distinguished international awards and research grants include: the Robert Schuman Doctoral Research Grant (2010), the Konrad Adenauer Doctoral Fellowship (2011), the Fulbright Postdoctoral Fellowship which was spent at the Global Studies Division of Stanford University (2014-2015), and the Humboldt Fellowship (2016). Dr. Vardari’s focus on Balkan politics and societies stems back to her 2000 work with Kosovo refugees. She has since established a professional status in Kosovo, Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, and the USA as a researcher of contention politics, international statebuilding and European postcommunist societies. She teaches courses in Israel and overseas on Balkan politics, social movements, and international intervention, topics on which she has authored articles and book chapters in English and Hebrew. Last year, besides her own research, Dr. Vardari was involved in two significant projects: as a researcher in the research project: “Building knowledge of new statehood in Southeast Europe: Understanding Kosovo’s domestic and international policy considerations”, initiated by The Kosovo Foundation for Open Society (KFOS), and as special issue editor for the international interdisciplinary journal East European Politics and Society on “Contention Politics and International Statebuilding in the Western Balkans”.