Professor Draga Mastilović, PhD

Born in Gacko on October 26, 1974, where he completed primary and secondary school. He graduated from the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Serbian Sarajevo in 2002. He obtained his master's degree (2007) and doctorate (2014) at the Department of Yugoslav History at the Faculty of Philosophy in Belgrade. So far, he has independently published five monographs, co-authored three monographs, and edited or co-edited two monographs and four volumes of historical document collections. In addition, he has published over seventy scholarly and professional papers and participated in numerous national and international scientific conferences, round tables, and symposia both domestically and abroad. He has served as a leader or member of project teams in several national scientific research projects and as a project team member of the University of East Sarajevo within several international projects. Through Erasmus+ programs, he has spent time at the University of Poitiers (France) and the "December 1, 1918" University in Alba Iulia (Romania). By invitation, he delivered a lecture at Saint Petersburg State University (Russian Federation). He is a member of the editorial boards of several scientific journals. He serves as the vice president of the Committee for Historical Sciences of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Republic of Srpska (ANU RS) and is a member of the Scientific Council of the Historical Institute of ANU RS. He was one of the founders (2016) and the first president of the Association of Historians of the Republic of Srpska "Milorad Ekmečić." He is the head of the Representative Office of the Russian Historical Society in the Republic of Srpska and the president of the "Count Sava Vladislavić" Society. Since 2002, he has been working at the Department of History at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of East Sarajevo, where he has progressed through all academic ranks in the field of Modern History. He has served as the head of the Department of History and, in two terms, from 2015 to 2023, as the dean of the Faculty of Philosophy. In September 2023, he was appointed director of the newly established Institute of Historical Sciences at the University of East Sarajevo. His research focuses on the history of Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 19th and 20th centuries, the history of Yugoslavia, and the history of historiography. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including the Charter of the University of East Sarajevo, the "Captain Miša Anastasijević" Charter, the "October Commemorative Medal" from the Association of Creators of the Republic of Srpska, the Russian Historical Society’s Gramota, the Gramota of the Eparchy of Vranje, the Plaque of the Archives of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Medal for Selfless Service "Holy Princes Boris and Gleb" from the Pan-Orthodox Movement "Orthodox Russia," among others.