Driart Elshani
Weiser Professional Development Fellow, 2016
Driart Elshani is professor of information and communication technologies at the American University in Kosovo. He has worked on several projects related to the usage of information technology for development at various institutions in government and industry. He was educated at the University of Brussels, where he earned his bachelor’s, master’s, and doctorate in information sciences and technologies. Professor Elshani will spend four weeks at U-M in winter 2016 to complete research on a project entitled “3-D Printing for Education and Development in Kosovo” in collaboration with Eric Maslowski, director of the UM3D Lab.
Ivan Gerát
Weiser Professional Development Fellow, 2016
Ivan Gerát is associate professor of art history at the University of Trnava and director of the Institute for Art History of the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava, Slovak Republic. He received his PhD from Freiburg University (Germany) and has been a visiting scholar at several major institutions, including Princeton University. He publishes on European medieval art and historiography of history. His most recent book is Legendary Scenes. An Essay on Medieval Pictorial Hagiography (Publishing House of the Slovak Academy of Sciences, 2013). Professor Gerát will spend four weeks at U-M in September 2016, working on a project entitled, “Iconology and Ideology during the Cold War,” in collaboration with Elizabeth Sears from the Department of the History of Art.
Nikola Milašinović
Weiser Professional Development Fellow, 2016
Nikola Milašinović is assistant professor at the Academy of Criminalistic and Police Studies and a research associate at the Innovation Centre of the Faculty of Technology and Metallurgy, Department of Organic Chemical Technology, University of Belgrade, Serbia, where he earned his doctorate degree in 2011. He has been working on several long-term projects where his research covers syntheses of different types of polymer matrices suitable for encapsulation/immobilization of various active substances while preserving 3-D structural design. Professor Milašinović will spend three months at U-M during Winter 2016, working on a project entitled “Design of 3-D Hydrogel System for Ovarian Follicle Culture.” His U-M host advisor is Ariella Shikanov, assistant professor in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering.
Tatjana Rosić Ilić
Weiser Professional Development Fellow, 2016
Tatjana Rosić Ilić is associate professor at the Faculty of Media and Communications of Singidunum University and a research fellow at the Institute for Literature and Art, both in Belgrade, Serbia. She is also a visiting professor at University of Kragujevac's Philological-Art School and a member of the editorial boards of Sarajevo Notebooks and Belgrade Journal of Media and Communications. Professor Rosić Ilić completed her PhD in Yugoslav and Serbian literature at Belgrade University in 2006. Her current research focuses on women, gender, and masculinity critical studies in the context of transitional post-Yugoslav and Balkan culture(s). She will visit U-M for three months in Fall 2016 to complete research on a project entitled, “Paradox of (Auto)censorship and Narratives on Post-Yugoslav Future: Female Authorship in the Culture of Fear,” in cooperation with her host advisor, Tatjana Aleksić, associate professor of Comparative and Slavic Literature.
Anastasiia Syzenko
Weiser Professional Development Fellow, 2016
Anastasiia Syzenko is assistant professor at the Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Economics, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. She has worked on several research projects relating to curriculum development in business English and English for specific purposes, and reforms in higher education. She completed her PhD in linguistics at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 2007. Professor Syzenko will visit U-M for four weeks in Winter 2016 to complete research on a project entitled “Academic English for Teaching and Research” in cooperation with Melinda Matice, lecturer at the English Language Institute.
