Vladislav Lilić

Bio

Vladislav Lilić is a scholar of Eurasian empires whose research focuses on the social and legal histories of statecraft, diplomacy, and identity building in the nineteenth-century Balkans. He received a Ph.D. in Modern European History at Vanderbilt University. His first book (in progress), Empire of States: Law and International Order in Ottoman Europe, c. 1830-1912, traces how a wide array of elite and non-elite historical actors used the law to remake the regional imperial order. Lilić’s work in Austrian, Bulgarian, German, Montenegrin, North Macedonian, Serbian, and Turkish archives has been supported by research fellowships from the American Institute for Southeast European Studies, Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies, the Central European History Society, and the Social Science Research Council.

As a teacher, Lilić focuses on modern Europe, especially the entwined questions of imperialism, nationalism, and international law. He is also a regular podcast host on the New Books Network.