Prof. Dr. Marie-Janine Calic

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Research and Teaching Interests

• Modern history of Southeast Europe (19th/20th centuries)

• Conflict prevention, conflict management and peace-building in the Balkans

• Western Balkans politics and societies

Curriculum vitae

Marie-Janine Calic is Professor of Eastern and South-Eastern European History at the University of Munich and was previously Dean of the Faculty of History and Art History. She has been a visiting scholar at Harvard and a visiting professor at the College of Europe/Natolin. Outside of her permanent position, she has worked for the Special Coordinator of the Stability Pact for South Eastern Europe in Brussels, the UNPROFOR headquarters in Zagreb and the ICTY in The Hague. She is the author of numerous publications, which have been translated into many languages. Her most recent publications include: "Balkan Odyssey. Fleeing Hitler through Southeast Europe,‘ Munich: C.H. Beck 2025, ’The Great Cauldron. A History of Southeast Europe, Cambridge/London, Harvard University Press 2019; A History of Yugoslavia, West Lafayette, Purdue University Press 2019; Tito. Eine Biographie, Munich: C.H. Beck 2020; Geschichte des Balkans, Munich: C.H. Beck 2023. She regularly comments on Balkan issues in the media.

Recent publications

• 命运交织的土地：东南欧的历史 (Countries of intertwined destinies: A history of South-Eastern Europe), Peking: Social Sciences Academic Press 2025.
• Balkan-Odyssee. Auf der Flucht vor Hitler durch Südosteuropa, München 2025
• Storia della Jugoslavia, Mailand 2025.
• Butoiul cu pulbere. O istorie a Europei de Sud-Est, Bukarest 2025.
• Tito - večni partizan, Ljubljana: Mladinska knjiga 2024.
• Geschichte des Balkans. Von den Anfängen bis zur Gegenwart, München: C.H.Beck 2023.
• Tito – Vječni partizan, Zaprešić: Fraktura 2022.
• Geschichte Jugoslawiens, München, 2. durchges. Auflage, München: C.H. Beck 2020.

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Current Research

• Tito and the Yugoslav policy of active coexistence