| Slađana Đurić | |
| Birth Name: | Slađana Đurić |
| Birth Date: | 30 June 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Pristina, AP Kosovo |
| Nationality: | Kosovar-Serbian |
| Occupation: | Scientist and university professor |
| Education: | Pristina University |
Slađana Đurić (Serbian: Слађана Ђурић; born 30 June 1964) is a Serbian scientist and university professor.
Đurić was born in Pristina, AP Kosovo, SFR Yugoslavia and finished her primary and graduated from secondary school in Pristina. She started her studies of philosophy and sociology at Faculty of Philosophy in Pristina, in the academic year 1982/3 and got her bachelor's degree in the academic year 1984/5. In 1989 she took the postgraduate course "Philosophy and Social Science" at Inter-university Center for Postgraduate Studies in Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, on a grant by Hilda’s College, University of Oxford. She finished her post graduate studies at the University of Belgrade's Law School, in 1993 and got the academic title Master of Humanities by having defended the master’s thesis "Some Concepts of Social Structure of Yugoslav Society". She successfully defended the doctoral thesis "Blood Vengeance in Kosovo and Metohia" at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy in 1997, thus acquiring the academic title Doctor of Humanities.
She started her academic career at Faculty of Philosophy, University of Pristina in 1987. There she teaches the course Sociology II. Besides that, she teaches sociology and methodology of scientific research at University of Belgrade and is Vice-Dean in charge of postgraduate studies and scientific and research work at the University of Belgrade Faculty of Civil Defense. She also taught at the International Interdisciplinary Post-Graduate Studies "State Executive and Humanitarian Activities", organized by University of Belgrade in co-operation with La Sapienza University, Rome, and the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Among other things, her scientific work includes research of sociological and anthropological types in Kosovo, sponsored by the Gallup Institute.
Mrs. Djuric is a member of a number of international and domestic scientific associations (YUS, SDS, ESA, and ISA), she was a member of the Presidency of Yugoslav Sociological Association, one of the editors of Sociology Magazine. Presently, she is a member of the Presidency of the Serbian Sociological Society.
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