Naum Trajanovski
POSITION:
Adjunct faculty member
RESEARCH AREAS:
historical sociology, the history of sociology in East Central and Southeast Europe, nationalism- and memory studies.
SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITY
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2025-27 – Adjunct faculty member, Robert Zajonc Institute for Social Studies UW
2022-25 – Adjunct faculty member, Faculty of Sociology UW
2016-21 – PhD, Graduate School for Social Research, IFiS PAN, Warsaw
2015-16 – MA, Central European University, Budapest
2012-15 – MA, Interdisciplinary Joint Master’s Degree Programme in South-Eastern European Studies, Skopje
Scientific interests
I am a sociologist interested in historical sociology, the history of sociology in East Central and Southeast Europe, nationalism- and memory studies. In the past years, I primarily worked on sociological knowledge-transfers during the Cold War and memory politics in the Balkans.
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Monographs:
- Trajanovski, N. (2024). A History of Macedonian Sociology: In Quest for Identity. London – New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
- Trajanovski, N. (2022). Remembering the 2001 Armed Conflict in Macedonia: Modes of Commemoration and Memorialization. Belgrade: Humanitarian Law Center. Translated into Macedonian, Albanian and Serbian.
- Trajanovski, N. (2020). Operacijata Muzej: Muzejot na makedonskata borba i makedonskata politika na seḱavanje. [The Operation Museum: The Museum of the Macedonian Struggle and the Macedonian Memory Politics]. Skopje: Templum (in Macedonian).
Edited volumes:
- Co-edited with Jakub Szumski. (2026). Prawo, władza, pluralizmy. Myśląc ze Stanisławem Ehrlichem. [Law, Power, Pluralisms. Revisiting Stanisław Ehrlich]. Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Scholar (in Polish).
- Co-edited with Lidija Georgieva. (2023). Conflicting Remembrance: The Memory of the Macedonian 2001 in Context. Skopje: Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung.
- Co-edited with Petar Todorov. (2021). Skopskiot zemjotres od 1963 godina i postzemjotresnata obnova: Lični svedoštva. [The 1963 Skopje Earthquake and the Post-Earthquake Urban Reconstruction: Personal Testimonies]. Skopje: Center for Research of Nationalism and Culture (in Macedonian).
- Co-edited with Biljana Volčevska, Petar Todorov and Ljupčo S. Risteski. (2021). Cultures and Politics of Remembrance: Southeast European and Balkan Perspectives. Skopje: forumZFD – Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology – Institute of National History.
Latest papers/chapter:
- Co-authored with Marta Bucholc. (2025). Marxist and Post-Marxist Sociology in East Central and Southeastern Europe. In: Theory Reimagined: Voices of Sociologists from Around the World, eds. R. Roy at al., 162-181. Frontpage.
- Co-authored with Lidija Georgieva. (2024). Ohrid Framework Agreement 2001. In: Teaching and Leardning About Religious Diversity in the Past and Present, eds. K. Van Nieuwenhuyse, J. Maiden and S. Sinclair, 151-166. Palgrave Macmillan.
- Co-authored with Adamantios Skordos. (2024). The Two Museums of the Macedonian Struggles: Contested History Displays in Thessaloniki and Skopje, Südosteuropa Mitteilungen 05, 33-41.
- Co-authored with Ivana Hadžievska. (2024). “Beautiful!!! And a Bit Scary!” The Comments in the Visitor Books of the Museum of the Macedonian Struggle in Skopje and the Reception of Rightist History and Memory Narratives in North Macedonia (2011-2014). In: Decolonial Politics in European Peripheries: Redefining Progressiveness, Coloniality and Transition Efforts, ed. S. Petkovska, 221-242. Routledge.
- Trajanovski, N. (2023). The Rescue of the Macedonian Jews during World War II. Between Collective Agency and Individual Stories. In: The Rescue Turn and the Politics of Holocaust Memory, eds. N. Aleksiun, R. Utz and Z. Wójcicka, 99-142. Wayne State University Press.
PROJECTS
Projects in progress:
Past projects