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Undergraduate Advising Director
Jelena Batinic
Undergraduate Advising Director, Academic Advising Operations
Jelena Batinic is an Undergraduate Advising Director at Stanford University. Her conversations with advisees address topics such as academic planning and progress, research, fellowships, and post-graduate study. She is the Stanford liaison for the prestigious Beinecke scholarship.
Dr. Batinic is a historian of modern Europe with a research focus on the modern Balkans. Her research interests include war and society, revolutionary movements, World War II, and gender history. She is the author of Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2016 Barbara Jelavich Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Prior to joining the Academic Advising team, Jelena Batinic was a Fellow in the Thinking Matters Program at Stanford. Besides Thinking Matters, she has taught in Stanford’s Department of History.
Dr. Batinic is a historian of modern Europe with a research focus on the modern Balkans. Her research interests include war and society, revolutionary movements, World War II, and gender history. She is the author of Women and Yugoslav Partisans: A History of World War II Resistance (Cambridge University Press, 2015), which was awarded the 2016 Barbara Jelavich Prize of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.
Prior to joining the Academic Advising team, Jelena Batinic was a Fellow in the Thinking Matters Program at Stanford. Besides Thinking Matters, she has taught in Stanford’s Department of History.
Education
PhD, Stanford University, History
MA, The Ohio State University, Women's Studies; History
BS/MS, University of Belgrade, Mechanical Engineering