Research Interests
Tamara is interested in marketplace platform labor and how conditions of the online global labor market and the local labor market in Serbia shape the everyday life of freelancers and workers on the Internet. Her broader interests include economic anthropology, political anthropology, anthropology of postsocialism, gender studies, digital labor, labor rights and organizing, and social movements.
Education
MA in cultural studies, University of Belgrade
BA in anthropology, University of Belgrade
Awards and Honors
2024, 2023 Joseph Casagrande Award for the Best Anthropological Research Proposal (Department of Anthropology, UIUC)
2023 Yaro Skalnik Prize for Best Graduate Essay in Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center, UIUC)
2023 Summer Research Assistance Award (Department of Anthropology, UIUC)2022 Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in Humanities and Arts
2022 Distinguished Graduate Fellowships in Humanities and Arts (Graduate College, UIUC)