Dr. Sanja Ivic

Dr. Sanja Ivic is a Principal Research Fellow at the Institute of European Studies in Belgrade, Serbia. She holds a master of arts in philosophy from the Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam (the Netherlands) and a doctorate in philosophy from the University of Belgrade (Serbia). She has worked on her postdoctoral project at the Paris Nanterre University (France).

Her professional career began at the IAV Institute (Internationale Archief voor de Vrouwenbeweging) in Amsterdam, where she worked on her research project “Poststructuralist Philosophical Critique of European Anti-Discrimination Law.” From 2015 to 2020, Dr. Sanja Ivic was an Associate Research Fellow (non-resident) at the Institute of International Relations, Prague (Czech Republic), and from 2017 to 2018 she was an Associate Research Fellow (non-resident) at the Institute of Applied Ethics, University of Hull (United Kingdom). Sanja Ivic is an editor at ISFP Books, located in the United Kingdom.

Since 2012, Dr. Sanja Ivic has been a member of the International Society for Philosophers (ISFP) in the United Kingdom and a mentor at the Pathways School of Philosophy in Sheffield. Since 2014, she has been a member of the Board of the ISFP. Since 2015, she has been a member of the Athens Institute for Research and Education (Greece).

During 2021, Sanja Ivic was a Visiting Researcher at the University of Crete, where she worked on the research project “The Crisis of Human Dignity in a Time of the COVID-19 Pandemic” at the Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences.

Dr. Sanja Ivic held a series of invited lectures at international universities and institutes (“Symbolic, Normative and Transformative Dimensions of Law” at the Institute for Women’s History in Amsterdam; the Netherlands; “Globalization, Regionalization, Fragmentation” at the NATO Defense College in Rome; Italy; “The Concept of Global Citizenship” at the University of Economics and Human Sciences in Warsaw; Poland, “Europe’s Borders: Security, Migration, Human Rights” at Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy in Athens; Greece and so forth). She also participated in a large number of international conferences.

In 2016, Dr. Sanja Ivic was granted the Partnership for Peace fellowship at the NDC in Rome (Italy), where she worked on her research project on Eastern and Western human rights narratives. In 2020, she collaborated with the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at the Ton Duc Thang University, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

At the invitation of the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR), Sanja Ivic was a reviewer of scientific project proposals in 2012. From 2009 to 2011, she was a member of the Steering group “Pluralism, Inclusion and Citizenship” (A Diversity and Recognition Project) Interdisciplinary.net (London and Oxfordshire, United Kingdom).

From 2021 to 2025, Dr. Sanja Ivic was a member of the research team of the project “Cultural Transfer Europe – Serbia”, which was approved for funding in 2021 under the IDEA program of the Science Fund of the Republic of Serbia.

She is also a member of a large number of international scientific and professional societies, such as: Euroacademia (Italy), Athens Institute for Research and Education – ATINER (Greece), Network Migration in Europe (Germany), Global Team of the Center for Promoting Ideas (USA) and so forth.

Dr. Sanja Ivic is the author of European Identity and Citizenship: Between Modernity and Postmodernity (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016); Paul Ricoeur’s Idea of Reference: The Truth as a Non-Reference (Leiden: Brill, 2018);  EU Citizenship: Towards a Postmodern Conception of Citizenship? (Wilmington, USA: Vernon Press, 2019); The Concept of European Values: Creating a New Narrative For Europe (London; Lanham; Bloomsbury/Rowman and Littlefield, 2022) and Eastern and Western Conceptions of Human Rights: Reaching a World Consensus (London: Bloomsbury, 2025). She is the author of 80 scientific papers published in international scientific journals, most of which are highly ranked and indexed in Web of Science and Scopus.

Sanja Ivic is a member of the Editorial Board of the international scientific journal International Law Research (Canada), the Journal of Law and Conflict Resolution (Africa), as well as the Advisory Board of the American International Journal of Contemporary Research (USA).

She has been a reviewer for highly ranked journals such as Ageing and Society (Cambridge University Press), Digital Society (Springer), The International Journal of Human Rights (Routledge), Gender, Work and Organization (Wiley) and so forth.

The papers and monographs written by Dr. Sanja Ivic have been cited in a large number of monographs and scientific articles, as well as in more than 100 doctoral dissertations. Her works are important for public policy making and have been cited in policy papers published by the European Commission (“Improving EU Engagement with Non-State Actors,” Frame, March 31, 2015), the Center for Euro-Atlantic Studies (“Promoting Democratic Values Among Youth,” June 2017), Jean Monnet Centres of Excellence – University of Florence (“The EU and Global Challenges,” May 2017), the Observer Research Foundation (“Leadership Challenges and the COVID-19 Pandemic,” February 11, 2021) and so on.