Manuela Dobos
Nationality and Nationalism

Manuela Dobos teaches Russian and East European History at the College of Staten Island, City University of New York. She specialized in Balkan History in the Institute on East Central Europe (M.A. 1967) at Columbia University and received her Ph.D. from the History Department there in 1974. She has lived and traveled extensively in the former Yugoslavia, speaks Serbo-Croatian fluently and has written on South Slav social history and nationalism.

Her dissertation was an economic-historical study of the Croatian and Krajine-Serb peasantry in the 19th century. She wrote a study of the official women's organization in former Yugoslavia ("Frontiers," University of Colorado, 1983), assembled an international bibliography on Croatian nationalism ("Nationalism in the Balkans: An Annotated Bibliography," edited by Gales Stokes, Garland, 1984) and in 1990 produced a TV documentary on the fall of the Berlin wall and its consequences for Germans (Staten Island Community TV).

More recently she has written a piece in a reader edited by Charles Cozic, entitled "Rape in Bosnia: War Crime Against Women, Against a Nation," and an article, "The Crisis in Yugoslavia: Against the Current." She was also Poland project director of the Fulbright East Europe Faculty Development Project awarded to the College in February 1993. She is a member of executive board of the Sarajevo Fund and the Bridge Group for Bosnia.