About Vladislav Lilic

Vladislav Lilic (https://as.vanderbilt.edu/hist...) is a fifth-year graduate student in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His doctoral project traces how imperial legal reform and everyday encounters with the law molded state and nation formation in late Ottoman Balkans (c. 1830-1912). Supported by the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies (ASEEES), the Central European History Society (CEHS), and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Vladislav has conducted dissertation research in a dozen archives in Austria, Bulgaria, Germany, Montenegro, and Serbia. His advisor is Professor Emily Greble, with whom Vladislav has co-authored an historiographical essay forthcoming in The American Historical Review (summer 2023). You can reach him at vladislav.lilic@vanderbilt.edu.

Vladislav Lilic is a doctoral candidate in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University.

Vladislav's website

NBN Episodes hosted by Vladislav:

Matthew Romaniello, "Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

January 12, 2024

Enterprising Empires

Matthew Romaniello
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

In his new book Enterprising Empires: Russia and Britain in Eighteenth-Century Eurasia (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Matthew Romaniello examines…

Noel Malcolm, "Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750" (Oxford UP, 2019)

January 3, 2024

Useful Enemies

Noel Malcolm
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Sir Noel Malcolm’s captivating new book, Useful Enemies: Islam and the Ottoman Empire in Western Political Thought, 1450-1750 (Oxford University Press…

Adam Mestyan, "Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East" (Princeton UP, 2023)

January 1, 2024

Modern Arab Kingship

Adam Mestyan
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

In Modern Arab Kingship: Remaking the Ottoman Political Order in the Interwar Middle East (Princeton University Press, 2023), Adam Mestyan (Duke Unive…

Natasha Wheatley, "The Life and Death of States: Central Europe and the Transformation of Modern Sovereignty" (Princeton UP, 2023)

November 12, 2023

The Life and Death of States

Natasha Wheatley
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Natasha Wheatley is an Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. Her bold and riveting debut monograph, The Life and Death of States: Ce…

Nora Barakat, "Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobility and Property in the Ottoman Empire" (Stanford UP, 2023)

June 6, 2023

Bedouin Bureaucrats

Nora Barakat
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic
Listen:

In the late nineteenth century, Ottoman statesmen sought to fill landscapes they legally defined as "empty." Both land and people were incorporated in…

Ari Joskowicz, "Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust" (Princeton UP, 2023)

April 2, 2023

Rain of Ash

Ari Joskowicz
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Dr. Ari Joskowicz, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Rain of Ash: Roma, Jews, and the Holoc…

Rose Parfitt, "The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Historiography, Resistance" (Cambridge UP, 2019)

March 31, 2023

The Process of International Legal Reproduction

Rose Parfitt
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Rose Parfitt is a Senior Lecturer in Law at the University of Kent and the author of The Process of International Legal Reproduction: Inequality, Hist…

Miriam Bak Mckenna, "Reckoning with Empire: Self-Determination in International Law" (Brill, 2022)

March 14, 2023

Reckoning with Empire

Miriam Bak Mckenna
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Miriam Bak McKenna is an Associate Professor at the Department of Social Sciences and Business at Roskilde University (Denmark). Her first monograph, …

Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă, "Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania across Empires" (Cornell UP, 2022)

December 10, 2022

Creolizing the Modern

Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatcă
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

The episode features Anca Parvulescu and Manuela Boatca, co-authors of an extraordinary, field-shifting new book – Creolizing the Modern: Transylvania…

Michael Bess, "Planet in Peril: Humanity's Four Greatest Challenges and How We Can Overcome Them" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

November 29, 2022

Planet in Peril

Michael Bess
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Michael Bess is the Chancellor's Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. His fifth and most recent book is Planet in Peril: Humanity’s Four Gre…

Josep M. Fradera, "The Imperial Nation: Citizens and Subjects in the British, French, Spanish, and American Empires" (Princeton UP, 2018)

September 9, 2022

The Imperial Nation

Josep M. Fradera
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

How the legacy of monarchical empires shaped Britain, France, Spain, and the United States as they became liberal entities? Historians view the late e…

Lisa Ford, "The King's Peace: Law and Order in the British Empire" (Harvard UP, 2021)

August 2, 2022

The King's Peace

Lisa Ford
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Dr. Lisa Ford, Professor of History at the University of New South Wales, is the author of prize-winning monographs and a luminary in the field of glo…

Ayşe Zarakol, "Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders" (Cambridge UP, 2022)

March 29, 2022

Before the West

Ayşe Zarakol
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Ayse Zarakol, Professor of International Relations at the University of Cambridge, is the author of Before the West: The Rise and Fall of Eastern Worl…

Hannes Grandits, "The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia: Conflicting Agencies and Imperial Appropriations" (Routledge, 2021)

March 9, 2022

The End of Ottoman Rule in Bosnia

Hannes Grandits
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Dr. Hannes Grandits, Chair in Southeast European History at Humboldt University in Berlin, is among the very few most prominent historians of the Balk…

Izabela Wagner, "Bauman: A Biography" (Polity, 2020)

December 17, 2021

Bauman

Izabela Wagner
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Global thinker, public intellectual, and world-famous theorist of ‘liquid modernity’, Zygmunt Bauman (1925-2017) was a scholar who, despite forced mig…

Emily Greble, "Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe" (Oxford UP, 2021)

October 25, 2021

Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe

Emily Greble
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Dr. Emily Greble, Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, is the author of Muslims and the Making of Modern Europe (Oxford University…

Leonidas Mylonakis, "Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Marauders in the Greek and Ottoman Aegean" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

October 20, 2021

Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean

Leonidas Mylonakis
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Dr. Leonidas Mylonakis (PhD in History from the University of California, San Diego) is the author of Piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean: Maritime Ma…

Samuel Foster, "Yugoslavia in the British Imagination: Peace, War and Peasants Before Tito" (Bloomsbury, 2021)

September 27, 2021

Yugoslavia in the British Imagination

Samuel Foster
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Despite Britain's entering the 20th century as the dominant world power, its public discourses were imbued with cultural pessimism and rising social a…

Linda Colley, "The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen: Warfare, Constitutions, and the Making of the Modern World" (Liveright, 2021)

May 26, 2021

The Gun, the Ship, and the Pen

Linda Colley
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Linda Colley is a luminary in the fields of British and imperial history, and the Shelby M. C. Davis 1958 Professor of History at Princeton University…

Adom Getachew, "Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination" (Princeton UP, 2020)

April 26, 2021

Worldmaking After Empire

Adom Getachew
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Adom Getachew, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago, is the author of Worldmaking after Empire: T…

Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay, "Sovereignty Suspended: Political Life in a So-Called State" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)

March 26, 2021

Sovereignty Suspended

Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Rebecca Bryant, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University, and Mete Hatay, the Senior Research Consultant at the Peace Research Institu…

Steven Press, "Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe's Scramble for Africa" (Harvard UP, 2017)

February 2, 2021

Rogue Empires

Steven Press
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Steven Press is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. His marvelous first book, Rogue Empires: Contracts and Conmen in Europe’s Sc…

Konstantina Zanou, "Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850: Stammering the Nation" (Oxford UP, 2019)

December 14, 2020

Transnational Patriotism in the Mediterranean, 1800-1850

Konstantina Zanou
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

Konstantina Zanou is an Assistant Professor of Italian and Mediterranean Studies at Columbia University. Her captivating book Transnational Patriotism…

John Connelly, "From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)

September 30, 2020

From Peoples into Nations

John Connelly
Hosted by Vladislav Lilic

John Connelly’s new book – From Peoples into Nations: A History of Eastern Europe (Princeton University Press, 2020) – is an encyclopedic but lively n…