Veljko Đurić Mišina (; born 8 January 1953) is ĐurićMiša Serbian historian, specializing in the history of the Serbian Orthodox Church, genocides and the Holocaust, and modern history of the Western Balkans. He is currently the director at the Museum of Genocide Victims in Belgrade.

Biography

Mišina was born in the village of Kosore near Sinj, PR Croatia, FPR Yugoslavia, into a Serb family. He studied at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Belgrade. He defended his doctorate at the University of Novi Sad. He worked at the Historical Museum of Serbia as a curator-historian between 1981 and 1997. He then worked as a teacher at the Philosophical Faculty at the University of Pristina, first as a docent, then associate professor, on the subject of the history of Yugoslavia, between 1997 and 2005. He was employed at the Institute of Serbian Culture in Leposavić as director and head of research projects between 2005 and 2008. He was the director in the European High School for Sport journalism in Belgrade in 2008–09.

Veljko Đurić Mišina

The Serbian government decided on 23 June 2013 to appoint him the director of the Museum of Genocide Victims.

Veljko Đurić Mišina

References

Sources

20th-century Serbian historians

Academic staff of the University of Pristina

History of the Serbian Orthodox Church

Genocide education

University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy alumni

Serbs of Croatia

Croatian emigrants to Serbia

People from Sinj

1953 births

Living people

Historians of the Holocaust

21st-century Serbian historians

Veljko Đurić Mišina