Armina Galijaš is an Assistant Professor at the Centre for Southeast European Studies at the University of Graz and a Visiting Professor at the Faculty of Political Science at the University of Zagreb. She studied Eastern and Southeastern European History, Modern History and Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich. Whilst at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University she worked as an Academic collaborator of the Südost-Institut Munich (Regensburg). After graduating she worked as a research assistant at the Department of East and Southeast European History from 2003 to 2005. From 2005 to 2011 she was a research assistant at the Department of East European History at the University of Vienna where she also obtained her doctorate in History. Her research interests and academic teaching focus on modern Southeast European history.