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    Jasmina Tumbas

  • Jasmina Tumbas

  • Art, Art History & Visual Studies
  • 112 East Duke Building
  • Campus Box 90764
  • Phone: (919) 265-9263
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  • Overview

    Jasmina (b. 1981, Subotica, Serbia) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies at Duke. Her teaching and research fields focus on modern and contemporary art and theory, histories and theories of performance, body and conceptual art, art and activism, politics of contemporary visual culture, and critical theory. Her dissertation analyzes performance, conceptual and mail art in the former Yugoslavia and Hungary after World War II with an emphasis on the period 1968-1989. Dr. Kristine Stiles serves as her advisor and as the Chair of her dissertation committee; other committee members include: Dr. Patricia Leighten, Dr. Pamela Kachurin, Dr. Michael Hardt and Dr. Steven Mansbach (University of Maryland). Jasmina Tumbas will start her position as Assistant Professor of Performance Studies in the Department of Visual Studies at SUNY Buffalo in Fall 2013.

  • Bio

    Jasmina earned her B.A. in Art and Psychology from Maryville College (TN) in 2005 and her M.A. from Savannah College of Art and Design (GA) in 2006 with the support of the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation undergraduate and graduate fellowships. Dr. Edward Shanken served as the Chair of her M.A. thesis, a comparative analysis of Santiago Sierra’s Workers (2000) and Coco Fusco’s and Gómez-Peña’s Two Undiscovered Amerindians Visit . . . (1992-1994). Jasmina worked as an intern at the Berlinische Galerie in Berlin, Germany, as well as a counselor and art project coordinator for the Maltese Cross Refugee camp in Hemer, Germany. She started the PhD program in the Department of Art, Art History & Visual Studies in 2007.

  • Specialties

    • Contemporary Art (1945 - Present)
    • 20th Century Art
    • Art History
    • Visual Studies/Visual Culture
    • Feminism
    • Theory & Criticism

  • Research Summary

    Advisor: Dr. Kristine Stiles

  • Current Projects

    Dissertation: "In the Specter of Sovereignty: Experimental Art in Hungary and Yugoslavia circa 1968-1989."

  • Areas of Interest

    Contemporary Art and Theory in the US, Europe, Eastern Europe and Russia.
    Performance & Body Art, Conceptual Art, Fluxus, Samizdat and Mail Art.
    Performance Studies, Feminism, Queer Theory, Critical Race Theory, Art and Activism.
    Marxism, Nationalism, Slavic Studies, Trauma Studies, and Globalization.

  • Education

      • MA,
      • Art History,
      • Savannah College of Art and Design,
      • 2006
      • BA,
      • Fine Arts,
      • Maryville College,
      • 2005

  • Awards, Honors and Distinctions

      • Summer Research Fellowship,
      • Duke University Graduate School,
      • 2013
      • Conference Travel Fellowship,
      • Duke University Graduate School,
      • April, 2012
      • Certificate in Slavic, Eurasian and East European Studies,
      • The Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies (CSEEES) at Duke University,
      • April, 2011
      • International Research Travel Fellowship,
      • Duke University Graduate School,
      • 2011
      • Travel Grant,
      • Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, Duke University,
      • November 2010
      • Conference Travel Fellowship,
      • Duke University Graduate School,
      • October, 2010
      • Pre-Dissertation Fellowship Travel Award,
      • Duke Graduate School,
      • 2010-2011
      • Gulnar Bosch Travel Assistance,
      • Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC),
      • 2008
      • Gulnar Bosch Travel Assistance,
      • Southeastern College Art Conference (SECAC),
      • 2007
      • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Graduate Fellowship,
      • 2005-2006
      • Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Undergraduate Scholarship,
      • 2002-2005
      • Presidential Scholar,
      • Maryville College,
      • 2002-2005
      • Dean's Scholar and Bradford Scholar,
      • Maryville College,
      • 2001-2003

  • Recent Publications

      • J. Tumbas.
      • "Todosijevic, Rasa."
      • Grove Art Online
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      • Ed. Anna Brzyski, Jennifer Bantz and Mary Araneo.
      • Oxford University Press,
      • (Fall, 2012)
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      • J. Tumbas.
      • "Gotovac, Tomislav."
      • Grove Art Online
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      • Ed. Anna Brzyski, Jennifer Bantz and Mary Araneo.
      • Oxford University Press,
      • (Fall, 2012)
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      • J. Tumbas.
      • "Tot, Endre."
      • Grove Art Online
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      • Ed. Anna Brzyski, Jennifer Bantz and Mary Araneo.
      • Oxford University Press,
      • (Fall, 2012)
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      • J. Tumbas.
      • "International Hungary!: György Galántai's Networking Strategies."
      • ARTMargins, Special Issue on Artists’ Networks in Latin America and Eastern Europe
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      • Ed. Sven Spieker; Klara Kemp-Welch, Cristina Freire, Octavian Eʂanu, Angela Harutyunyan, and Karen Benezra.
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      • MIT Press,
      • (August, 2012)
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      • J. Tumbas.
      • "TILT and deStructures."
      • Drain: Journal of Contemporary Art
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      • Ed. Adrian Parr, Celina Jeffery, Greg Minissale.
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      • (2006)
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