Dušan T. Bataković

Dušan T. Bataković (Serbian Cyrillic: Душан Т. Батаковић; born April 23, 1957 in Belgrade) is a Serbian historian and diplomat. His specialty is modern and contemporary Serbian and Balkan history. He holds the post of Director of the Institute for Balkan Studies at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts.

Bataković graduated with a degree in history from the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1982. He holds an M.A. in history from the same institution (1988). He received his Ph.D. in history from the University of Paris IV: Paris-Sorbonne in 1997 with the thesis La France et la formation de la démocratie parlementaire en Serbie 1830-1914 (France and the Formation of Parliamentary Democracy in Serbia, 1830-1914).

Bataković is a specialist for nineteenth- and twentieth-century Balkan history, as well as for the French-Serbian relations. He has written and published extensively on the modern and contemporary history of Serbia, in particular Kosovo and Albania–Serbia relations, focusing on nationalism, and the origins of religious and ethnic strife. Another area of his research is the impact of communism on the contemporary history of Serbia, Yugoslavia and the Balkans. Bataković writes in Serbian, English and French and his bibliography includes dozens of historical monographs, edited volumes and more than a hundred articles published in various languages.

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