Fred Cuny Chair in the History of Human Rights; Professor, History
pballing@umich.eduOffice Information:
1029 Tisch Hall
phone: 734.647.4888
CREES Faculty Associates; Center for Russian, East European, & Eurasian Studies; Donia Human Rights Center; International Institute; DHRC Faculty Associates; DHRC Faculty Steering Committee; CREES Executive Committee; Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia; WCEE Faculty
Education/Degree:
Ph.D. Johns Hopkins University, 1999
Highlighted Work and Publications
Impossible Returns, Enduring Legacies: Recent Historiography of Displacement and the Reconstruction of Europe after World War II
Pamela Ballinger
Name of Periodical: Contemporary European History
Volume Number: 22
Issue Number: 01
Year of Publication: 2013
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See MoreEntangled or "Extruded" Histories?: Displacement, National Refugees, and Repatriation after the Second World War
Pamela Ballinger
Name of Periodical: Journal of Refugee Studies
Volume Number: 25
Issue Number: 3
Year of Publication: 2012
Page Numbers: 366-386
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See MoreSocialist Secularism: Religion, Modernity, and Muslim Women's Emancipation in Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, 1945-1991
Pamela Ballinger, Kristen Ghodsee
This article uses the examples of socialist Bulgaria and Yugoslavia to propose some
new directions for rethinking scholarly understandings of “secularism” and the ways
in which socialist secularizing projects were intricately intertwined with questions of
gender equality. Current scholarly debates on the genealogy of secularism root its origins
in the Catholic/Protestant West, and systematically ignore cases from the former
communist world. This article takes two cases of Balkan states to explore the theoretical
contours of what we call “socialist secularism...
Borders of the Nation, Borders of Citizenship: Italian Repatriation and the Redefinition of National Identity after World War II
Pamela Ballinger
Name of Periodical: Comparative Studies in Society and History
Volume Number: 49
Issue Number: 3
Year of Publication: 2007
Page Numbers: 713-741
doi Number: 10.1017/S0010417507000680
History in Exile: Memory and Identity at the Borders of the Balkans
Pamela Ballinger
In the decade after World War II, up to 350,000 ethnic Italians were displaced from the border zone between Italy and Yugoslavia known as the Julian March. History in Exile reveals the subtle yet fascinating contemporary repercussions of this often overlooked yet contentious episode of European history. Pamela Ballinger asks: What happens to historical memory and cultural identity when state borders undergo radical transformation? She explores displacement from both the viewpoints of the exiles and those who stayed behind. Yugoslavia's breakup and Italy's political transformation...
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