- Ph.D., McMaster University, 2019
- M.A. , McMaster University, 2010
- B.A., University of British Columbia, 2007
Dorian Jurić
Visiting Assistant Professor, Folklore and Ethnomusicology
he/him/on/njega
- djuric@iu.edu
- 800 E. 3rd St., 241
- Office Hours
Education
Research interests
- Oral epic and bardic arts
- Oral prose narrative
- Supernatural beings
- The comparative method
- Oral Formulaic Theory
- The politics of folklore
- Historical ethnography and archives
- Nativist folklore and anti-migrant solidarity
Courses recently taught
- Folklore in the US, IU
- Folkore and the Humanities, IU
- Anthropology for the 21st Century, UOttawa
- Conflicts and Social Movements, UOttawa
- Storytelling, Fable, and Song: The Anthropology of Oral Traditions, McMaster
- The Anthropology of Monsters and Supernatural Beings, McMaster
Awards + Distinctions
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2021-2023
- Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar Award, 2021-2022
- Wenner-Gren Post-PhD Research Grant, 2021-2022
- Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Graduate Scholarship, 2015-2018
Publication highlights
- Jurić, Dorian. 2023. “Where Does the Vila Live? Revisiting a Simple Question.” Folklore 134: 48-72.
- Jurić, Dorian. 2020. “The Heralds at the Bells: Messages of Hope from West Balkan Bards During the Coronavirus Pandemic.” Folklorica 24: 85-117.
- Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie and Dorian Jurić (eds.). 2020. Special Issue: “Vernacular Responses to the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Folklorica 24.
- Jurić, Dorian. 2020. “The Vernacular Afterlife of General Slobodan Praljak.” Slavic and East European Journal 64(4): 668-691.
- Jurić, Dorian. 2020. “Back in the Foundation: Chauvinistic Scholarship and the Building Sacrifice Story-Pattern.” Oral Tradition 34: 3-44.
- Jurić, Dorian. 2020. “‘Josip Tomec, Collector’: Class and Folklore Collection in Nineteenth-Century Croatia.” Journal of American Folklore 133(527): 27-52.
- Jurić, Dorian. 2019. “Conveying Ćeif: Three Croatian Folklore and Folklife Writings on Bosniak Coffee Culture.” Folklorica 23: 1-42.
- Jurić, Dorian. 2010. “A Call for Functional Differentiation of the South Slavic Vila.” Journal of Indo-European Studies 38(1 & 2): 172-202.
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