Faculty Profile - Nita Luci Ph.D.

Nita Luci

Adjunct Faculty

Education

MA/PhD Anthropology - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Dr. Nita Luci is an anthropologist and feminist scholar and activist. Her work has focused on the intersection of nationalist cultural politics, manhood, the state and political movements. She is currently Co-I of the Kosovo strand on the UK AHRC (Global Challenges) project ‘Changing the Story’ which explores the ways in which academics, artists, arts-based organizations, initiatives and institutions work with and through arts and young people on civic education and social justice Kosovo. 

Journal Article:

Luci, Nita and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers.  “Epistemic justice and everyday nationalism: An auto‐ethnography of transnational student encounters in a post‐war memory and reconciliation project in Kosovo.” Nations and Nationalism 26(2) 2020: 477-493. 

Luci, Nita. “Transitions and Traditions: Constructions of Gender, Nation and Family in Kosova.”  Anthropological Yearbook of European Cultures, Volume 14 Gender and Nation in the South Eastern Europe. Edited by Karl Kaser and Elizabeth Katschnig-Fasch (2005): 143-168. 

Luci, Nita. Endangering Masculinity in Kosova: Can Albanian Women Say No?  Anthropology of East Europe Review.  Vol 20. No. 2 (2002): 71-79.

Book chapter:

Luci, Nita. National Manhood: Martyrs, Freedom Fighters, and Statesmen in Kosovo’s State-Making. In Nationalism and the Politicization of History in the Former Yugoslavia, Ognjenovic, Gorana and Jasna Jozelic, eds. Palgrave: London, 2021.

Luci, Nita and Linda Gusia. Inside-Out and Outside-In on Dealing with Past in Kosova: Actors, Voices and Practices, with Linda Gusia. In Unravelling Liberal Interventionism, Gëzim Visoka and Vjosa Musliu eds. Routledge: London, 2018.

Gusia, Linda, Nita Luci, Lura Pollozhani and Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers. Fragments on Heroes, Artists and Interventions: Challenging Gender Ideology and Provoking Active Citizenship through the Arts in Kosovo. In Participatory Arts in International Development, Paul Cook and Ines Soria-Donlan, eds.. London: Routledge, 2019. 

Luci, Nita. “The Making of Citizenship Against Corruption in Kosovo: Protest, Lies, and the Public Good.” In Corruption in Public Administration: An Ethnographic Approach, Davide Torsello, ed. Edward Elgar, London, 2016.

Luci, Nita and Linda Gusia. “Our men will not have amnesia”: Civic Engagement, Emancipation, and Gendered Public in Kosovo. In Civic and Uncivic values in Kosova:  Value Transformation, Education, and Media, edited by Sabrina P. Ramet, Albert Simkus, and Ola Listhaug. Budapest: Central European University Press, 2014.

Luci, Nita. "Das Schweigen der Frauen: Genderkonstruktionen und Genderdynamiken in Kosova vor und nach dem Krieg" in: Ruth Seifert (ed.) unter Mitarbeit von Vlasta Jalusic, Gender, Identitaet und kriegerischer Konflikt in den Nachkriegsgesellschaften des ehemaligen Jugoslawien. Publishers: Lit-Verlag: Muenster/Germany., 2004. 

Book:

Luci, Nita and Vjollca Krasniqi. The Politics of Remembrance and Belonging: Life Histories of Albanian Women in Kosova. Center for Research and Gender Policy, Pristina, 2006. 

Booklet:

Feminist Conversations: History, Memory and Difference. co-editor. Forum ZFD (Prishtina 2016).