Education:
June 2013 GEM PhD School – Erasmus Mundus Joint Doctorate
Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium
University of Warwick Coventry, UK
•Globalization, the EU and Multilateralism
•Funded by the European Commission

June 2010 University of Oxford Oxford, UK
Department of International Development
•MSc Global Governance and Diplomacy
•OSI-FCO Full Scholarship and Blackwell Graduate Award

June 2009 Ss. Cyril and Methodius University Skopje, Macedonia
Faculty of Law- Justinian the First
•BA Political Sciences

2007-2008 University of Washington Seattle, WA, USA
•Undergraduate Exchange Program
•Open Society Institute full scholarship
•Three times on the Dean's List for top students

May 2005 Private Yahya Kemal College Skopje, Macedonia
•Four years full scholarship for top students

Informal Education:
August 2009 OSI Summer School Istanbul, Turkey
• Human Right Course given by Corinne Lennox
•Research on the Roma minority rights in Serbia,
•Title of Paper: Evaluation of the Keck and Sikkink's boomerang model

Sept 2008 Faculty of Political Sciences University of Belgrade Belgrade, Serbia
•Alpbach Summer School on European Integration
• Intense Course on European Law, Economy and Politics

Academic Experience:
Sept 2011 European Sociological Association, 10th Conference Geneva, Switzerland
•Participated in the panel on critical political economy
•Presented a paper: The EU Asymmetric Governance

April 2011 Symposium on Ethics and Social Responsibility Research Lisbon, Portugal
•ISCTE- Lisbon University Institute
•Presented a paper: Corporate Social Responsibility: Constructivist Regime

March 2011 Open Society Foundation-Soros: Regional Conference Budva, Montenegro
•The Way Forward: The Future of Democracy in the Balkans
Presented a preliminary research on the Varieties of Capitalism in Macedonia

February 2011 LUISS- GEM PhD School Rome, Italy
•Present a paper at the Annual Doctoral Workshop: Progressive Possibilities
Immanent in the Asymmetric Governance of the EU: ETUC, Social Platform,
and the European Anti-Poverty Network

Teaching Experience:
Autumn 2010 Université Libre de Bruxelles Brussels, Belgium
•Voluntary Assistant to Prof. Mario Telo
•Course Title: Globalization and Social Regimes

NGO Experience:
2008-2009 Step Out- Open Society Institute Skopje, Macedonia
•Project Manager of the Home Country Project
•Tackling down the prejudice towards the LGBT community in Macedonia
•Simulation games, workshops and production of a documentary that was
shown in the Macedonian Cinemateque

August 2008 It's Up To Us- Blue Sky Exchange Program Bitola, Macedonia
•Part of the planning and the admin team
•Sponsored by Youth in Action EU fund

2006-2007 Blue Sky Network Skopje, Macedonia
•British Council Initiative, now independent NGO
• PR Officer of Skopje Club
• University Team Assistant

Participant:
July 2010 •Marxism 2010, Conference London, UK
April 2010 •The Challenges of Open Society Conference Durham, UK
July 2009 •Open Society Commencement Conference Istanbul, Turkey
October 2008 •CRISP, Conflict Resolution Simulation Game Novo Brdo, Kosovo
August 2008 •Eco Conscious Seminar Rila, Bulgaria
March 2008 •Open Society Institute Conference New York City, NY, USA
Nov 2007 • Pacific Association of Colleges Los Angeles, CA, USA
Universities and Residence Halls Conference
October 2007 • Open Society Institute Conference Burlington, VT USA
June 2007 • Open Society Institute Budapest, Hungary
Undergraduate Exchange Conference

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Présentation des recherches

My PhD project represents an interdisciplinary study that addresses the question of the EU governance structure. The starting point of analysis is the recent debates grounded in the critical historico-dialectic theory that try to shift the focus from the causes of integration to its consequences. I treat the recent Critical Turn in the EU studies scholarship that renders the EU governance structure disembedded to some length and take its premise and reasoning as valid.
The twofold objective of the research is to provide a Polanyian critique of the neo-Gramscian interpretations of the EU governance structure, and a constructivist critique of the same pessimistic accounts that identify neoliberal preemptive measures in every societal initiative. To that end, I operationalize Polanyi's concept of embedded and disembedded and treat them as opposite modes of operation that designate the positioning of the economic social relations and institutions vis-à-vis the other non-economic social relations and institutions. Through the lenses of these concepts, I attempt to provide a more nuanced narrative of the character of the EU structure that challenges the hyperbolic conclusions of the critical approaches.
Following the Polanyian reading, the project tries to demonstrate the civil society potential in reducing the present asymmetry in the governance structure by drawing insights from IR constructivism. I attempt to bring to the foreground the instances of re-embeddedness and particularly focus on the hard case of poverty and the activism by the European Anti Poverty Network and Social Platform.