Department of Political Science
Email: hozic@ufl.edu
Office Location: 234 Anderson Hall
Areas of Interest/Research/Teaching
My research is situated on the intersections of cultural studies, international political economy and international security. I am the author of Hollyworld: Space, Power and Fantasy in the American Economy (Cornell University Press, 2002) and co-editor (with Jacqui True) of Scandalous Economics: Gender and Politics of Financial Crises (Oxford University Press, 2016) as well as of dozens of peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes. I have received multiple Fulbright Awards, John D. and Katherine T. MacArthur Fellowship in Global Security, Open Society Fellowship and many other grants and awards. My current research projects focus on crime and state in Southeastern Europe, visual representations of race in international politics, and the spread and growth of global arts markets in the 21st century.
Since 2014, I have developed three new courses – Art and War (examining practices and experiences of war through the lens of arts), Divided Cities (focusing on conflict and post-conflict politics in Belfast, Sarajevo, Nicosia and Jerusalem), and The Colour Line: Race and International Politics. I regularly teach an upper division course INR3084 Culture and World Politics, which also incorporates discussions and conversations about race/racism in international relations. A Preview Advisor veteran and a former Undergraduate Coordinator for Political Science (2010-2013), I was a CLAS Advisor of the Year in 2013 and Colonel Allan R. and Margaret G. Crow Professor Term Professor in 2015-2016 and 2017-2018. I am currently a UF Term Professor. UF Student Government presented me with Dr. Julie A. Sina Award for “outstanding commitment to students” in 2011.
Background
- Ph.D. with Distinction, Department of Politics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, August 1997
- Subfield examinations in theory of international relations, modern political theory and comparative politics.
- Dissertation: The Rise of the Merchant Economy: Industrial Change in the American Film Industry. Committee: Herman Schwartz (chair), John Echeverri-Gent, Leonard Schoppa, Eric Lott (Department of English)
- M.A. in International Affairs, The Johns Hopkins University, Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), Bologna, Italy, May 1989
- Thesis, directed by Gianfranco Pasquino: The Origins of Left-Wing Terrorism in Western Europe: Social and Political Consequences of the 1968 Student Protests.
- B.A. summa cum lade, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia & Herzegovina, October 1985
- Concentration in contemporary continental philosophy, social theory and literary criticism