Ivana Ženarju Rajović

Ivana Ženarju Rajović, senior scientific associate, was born in 1985 in Sarajevo.

Education

In 2009 she graduated from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of Art History;

In 2011 she defended her master’s thesis, Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of Art History;

In 2014, she received her PhD from the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade, Department of Art History. She defended her doctoral dissertation entitled “Church Art and Religious Renewal in the Raška-Prizren Diocese 1839-1912”.

Work experience

Since 2011, she has been employed at the Institute for Serbian Culture.

Since 2011, dr Ivana Ženarju Rajović has been participating in the implementation of the project “Material and Spiritual Culture of Kosovo and Metohija” (Ev. No. 178028), which is financed by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development. In the period 2014–2019 on this project, she managed a project task called “Church Heritage of Kosovo and Metohija”. She was an associate on the project of the Museum in Prijepolje called “On the holy waters of the Lim river” from 2012 to 2016. Se has been an active collaborator in the development of the Serbian Encyclopedia since 2012, and the Serbian Biographical Dictionary since 2019.

Since 2020, she has been an associate on the Horizon 2020 project called „Visual Culture, Piety and Propaganda: Transfer and Reception of Russian Religious Art in the Balkans and the Eastern Mediterranean (16^th – early 20^th century) which is realized by the Foundations for Research and Technology Hellas and the Institute for Mediterranean Studies from Creta.

Bibliography

I. Ženarju Rajović (2021), Pilgrimage and visual cuture in 19^th-century Kosovo and Metohija, Journeys, Art reading, ed. By E. Moutafov, M. Kuyumdzhieva, Institute of Art Studies, Sofia, 239–257. ISBN 978-954-8594-98-1

Ženarju Rajović (2020), Economy and Cult of Relics: The Miracle-Working Icon of the Virgin and Financing the Patriarchate of Peć Monastery, in: Cultures of Economy in South-Eastern Europe. Spotlights and Perspectives, in: J. Murašov, D. Beganović, A. Lešić (eds.), Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 111–122. DOI: 10.14361/9783839450260-006

I. Ženarju Rajović (2017)The Rise of Church Art in the Last Century of Ottoman Rule, Artistic Heritage of the Serbian People in Kosovo and Metohija: History, Identity, Vulnerability, Protection, eds. D. Vojvodić, M. Marković, SASA, Belgrade, 325–339. ISBN 978-86-7025-758-0

Ženarju Rajović (2016) Church Art in the Diocese of Raška and Prizren (1839–1912), Institute for Serbian Culture Priština, Leposavić.ISBN 978-86-89025-30-9

Ženarju (2014), Performances and the cult of the martyr Bosiljka in Pasjan, Zbornik Matice srpske za likovne umetnosti 42, Matica sprska, Novi Sad, pp 187–202.