Dejana Kostic

Dejana Kostić is a PhD candidate in Cultural Anthropology with research interests in political and economic anthropology and science and technology studies. Her current work examines international trade, sovereignty, and technology in Serbia and across Europe. Drawing on long-term ethnographic research at customs outposts, logistics conferences, and intermodal terminals, as well as archival sources, her work analyzes how states govern through the regulation of commodity circulation. She reconceptualizes sovereignty not merely as rule over territory or populations through law, but as authority exercised through the management of goods, documents, and infrastructures.
Dejana has extensive teaching experience in introductory anthropology, sexuality and gender, contemporary Japan, and the anthropology of sport and food. Her teaching emphasizes critical thinking and connecting anthropological theory to contemporary global issues.